CEE 4920 - [Engineers for a Sustainable World: Engineering in International Development]

Fall. 3 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015. Enrollment limited to: seniors or graduate students. Juniors need permission of instructor.

F. Vanek.

Engineering-based group service projects offer real-life engineering research and design experience, from problem formulation through implementation. They may be international or local and may relate to any kind of engineering. Students work on interdisciplinary teams with a project supervisor and a partner community organization. Course readings and a writing assignment cover the relationship between engineering and international development, the philosophy and politics of technology, and ethics in engineering practice.

Outcome 1: Work with other students and a partner community organization on a real-world, engineering-based group service project.

Outcome 2: Critically explore the ideas in the politics of technology and engineering and relate them to the group project.