Overview
- Case studies provide insights into product designers, planners, and global engineers
- Offers a description on 'what is Global Engineering'?
- Describes the global development landscape
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Global Engineers and Partners
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together, is inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to global prosperity. This book presents a vision for Global Engineering, and identifies that engineers should be concerned with the unequal and unjust distribution of access to basic services, such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation, and shelter. As engineers, we should place an emphasis on identifying the drivers, determinants, and solutions to increasing equitable access to reliable services. Global Engineering envisions a world where everyone has safe water, sanitation, energy, food, shelter, and infrastructure, and can live in health, dignity, and prosperity.
This book seeks to examine the role and ultimately the impact of engineers in global development. Engineers are solutions-oriented people. We enjoy the opportunity to identify a product or need, and design appropriate technical solutions. However, the structural andhistorical barriers to global prosperity requires that Engineers focus more broadly on improving the tools and practice of poverty reduction and that we include health, economics, policy, and governance as relevant expertise with which we are conversant.Engineers must become activists and advocates, rejecting ahistorical technocratic approaches that suggest poverty can be solved without justice or equity. Engineers must leverage our professional skills and capacity to generate evidence and positive impact toward rectifying inequalities and improving lives.
Half of this book is dedicated to profiles of engineers and other technical professionals who have dedicated their careers to searching for solutions to global development challenges. These stories introduce the reader to the diverse opportunities and challenges in Global Engineering.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Evan Thomas is the Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering and holds the Mortenson Endowed Chair in Global Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Mortenson Center supports hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students working in over 20 countries, with dozens of non-profit, social enterprise, government, and community partners.
Evan is a tenured Associate Professor jointly appointed to the Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and the Aerospace Engineering Sciences Departments. Evan is currently a member of the NASA and USAID SERVIR Applied Sciences Team, applying NASA satellite data with USAID supported expertise toward drought resilience in East Africa. Evan has worked professionally in over a dozen countries, and holds a PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado Boulder, is a registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas, and has a Masters in Public Health from the Oregon Healthand Science University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Global Engineers
Book Subtitle: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together
Authors: Evan Thomas
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50263-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50262-1Published: 18 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-50265-2Published: 18 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-50263-8Published: 17 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 88
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering/Technology Education, Environmental Health, Environmental Policy, Sociology, general, Development Economics, Civil Engineering