Humanitarian Engineering (HE) programs aim to train engineers to improve the health, prosperity, and welfare of underserved and historically marginalized communities in America and abroad. These ...

A new course available in fall of 2022 within Miami University’s College of Engineering and Computing will expose students to issues related to social responsibility and environmental sustainability.

Founded in 2007, Drexel’s chapter of Engineers without Borders ‘(EWB) mission is to build a better world through engineering. It aims to empower communities to meet basic human needs and equip leaders ...

ESF students have an opportunity to combine their education, interest in service work and budding professional skills to improve communities, both locally and globally, through projects described as ...

The Mortenson Center in Global Engineering & Resilience at the University of Colorado Boulder offers a graduate certificate designed for engineers and professionals pursuing careers in global ...

Mira Olson (CAEE), along with engineering faculty from INSA Lyon (Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon), humanitarian aid workers from Humanity & Inclusion and humanitarian trainers from ...

The Humanitarian Engineering and Computing minor is designed to graduate engineering and computing majors who are globally-aware, culturally-sensitive, and socially conscious, and who would use their ...

On March 4, students from Santa Clara University and San Jose State University showed off their humanitarian engineering projects at the IEEE EPICS Expo, held at SCU. Students from Santa Clara ...

Jon Viducich, a master's student, and Jackline Naomi of the African Dam Foundation take riverbed samples near a sand dam in Kipico, Kenya. Humanitarian engineering uses science to help with social ...

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