Engineering Education
ESW chapters at world-class institutions are shaping engineering education for generations of students. Through the dedicated efforts of faculty and students across the country, ESW is integrating sustainability, international awareness, and community development into engineering curricula at institutions such as Cornell University, Stanford University, and the University of Texas at Austin.
Our Strategy
Our Impact on Higher Education
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Our Strategy
ESW’s current formal educational activities include:
Creation of new courses. New courses at the undergraduate and graduate level integrate community development, ethics, and engineering design. Courses often include a laboratory, or project component, enabling students to gain hands-on experience.
Integration of community development into senior and graduate-level design. Existing courses are being shaped to address global development challenges. ESW serves as a clearinghouse for educational resources, project partners, and funding opportunities.
Development of seminar series. Credit and non-credit seminars expose engineers to current issues of global poverty and sustainability.
Sharing of best practices. ESW facilitates the exchange of strategies to impact higher education through conferences, visits to campuses, and an online resource database of curricular models, project ideas, funding opportunities, and potential partners.
Our Impact on Higher Education
A few of our accomplishments to date:
- Students and faculty of the Cornell University chapter start a new course in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering; students collaborate with non-governmental organizations in Honduras and Turkey on community development projects.
- The Pennsylvania State University chapter integrates engineering-based projects in the Department of Community Development; students help retrofit earthquake-damaged housing in El Salvador, and design biomass renewable energy systems in Jamaica.
- Students at MIT coordinate a seminar series, drawing 70-80 students and faculty a week to learn about international development issues and the role of engineering.
- The University of Michigan chapter creates a new “Engineering for the Community” course in Mechanical Engineering.
- Iowa State University develops a seminar series; topics include “Sustainable agriculture in the developing world” and “Technology and its impact on the developing world.”
- The Stanford University chapter integrates projects into undergraduate- and graduate-level courses. Projects include green building design in Nicaragua and science curriculum development for African schools.
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If you are interested in learning how you can support our educational efforts:
- As a university partner, please see information about chapters, or contact us at education@esustainableworld.org
- As a funding partner, please contact us at development@esustainableworld.org
Course materials from affiliated campuses are available in the Chapter Resource Center.
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