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Guiding Principles for Sustainable Humanitarian Engineering Projects

March 25, 2010 9:00AM - 10:30AM @ Montgomery
The engineering profession must embrace a new mission statement: to contribute to the building of a more sustainable, stable, and equitable world. Recently, engineering students and professionals in the US have shown more interest in directly addressing the needs of developing communities worldwide. That interest has taken the form of short- and medium-term international trips through Engineers Without Borders-USA and similar organizations. There are also several instances where this kind of outreach work has been integrated into engineering education. This paper addresses the challenges and opportunities associated with balancing two goals in engineering for humanitarian development projects: (i) effective sustainable community development, and (ii) meaningful education of engineers. Guiding principles necessary to meet those two goals are proposed.
Type: Sustainability and Social Impact--Curricular Development» Papers
Speaker/Artist(s) Bernard Amadei, Robyn Sandekian, Evan Thomas
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