Abstract
The goal of the paper is to provide guidelines for building a comprehensive model that fosters humanitarian engineering education. The paper brings the voice of field practitioners and students, in addition to academic research, to determine the most critical attitudes, skills, and capacity building practice for empowering humanitarian engineers. A large pool of data related to the research topic was collected through an online questionnaire answered by 187 members of Engineering Without Borders. Inductive analysis methodology was used to analyze the survey results. Moreover, scholarly literature review was done to learn about the shortcomings in conventional engineering education and how it could be reformed to meet humanitarian engineering challenges.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | GHTC 2016 - IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference |
Subtitle of host publication | Technology for the Benefit of Humanity, Conference Proceedings |
Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. |
Pages | 304-311 |
Number of pages | 8 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781509024322 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2016 |
Publication series
Name | GHTC 2016 - IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference: Technology for the Benefit of Humanity, Conference Proceedings |
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Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2016 IEEE.
Keywords
- capacity building
- critical skills
- educational model
- engineering education
- humanitarian engineering
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Sociology and Political Science
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computer Science Applications
- Energy Engineering and Power Technology
- Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Health(social science)
- Communication
- Political Science and International Relations