Engineering Is Key to Easing the Supply Crunch of Critical M...
The supply of critical materials has emerged as a theme in the transition to clean energy. The manufacture of...
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Africa’s Energy Future May Be Mixed
Kenya broke ground on an ambitious project in 2016, a standard gauge railway running from the port city of Mombasa, through capital and commercial city of Nairobi, and terminating...
What to Know About the WHO-Recommended Malaria Vaccine
How well does the vaccine work, what does it mean for bed nets and other malaria-prevention measures, and what is the status of other vaccines in development? The World...
What Would You Do with Up to 8,600 Donated Medical Roll Stan...
An unusual opportunity is available to global development engineers and anyone working toward a good cause. The Philips Foundation is donating up to 8,600 medical roll stands to people and organizations...
E4C Partners with WHO to Advance Global Health Technology
In May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, the World Health Organization announced an open call for submissions to a new compendium of medical technology for low-resource settings....
Want to Solve Society’s Most Urgent Problems? Cash Prizes ...
Editor’s note: While considering the efficacy of cash prizes, please see this ongoing competition by ConservationX Labs: The Artisanal Mining Grand Challenge: The Amazon. Innovation is a critical part...
Should Engineers Learn the Trade as an Art as well as a Scie...
‘Creative’ is not a word that many professional engineers and engineering students would use to describe themselves. If you ask students why they chose engineering as a major, they...
Checking Under the Dashboard: Gender Bias in Data and Tech
This article reveals the often-overlooked consequences of excluding women’s voices from the development of technology. The result is harming...
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High-Tech for Good: Eight Humanitarian Aerospace Technologies
Mobile farms, aerial imaging and unmanned helicopters are saving lives as leading edge technology in humanitarian missions. Aerospace engineering...
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Pandemic-Related Shortages Reveal the Need to Break with Global Supply Chains
Global supply chain disruptions have been behind most of the changes we’ve witnessed in our daily lives during these...
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Design for Climate Resilience
From my home in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean archipelago where I was born and raised, the reality of climate...
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E4C Visualized: The Circular Sanitation Economy
The world has a major problem with waste—specifically, human waste. Of the 7.6 billion people on the planet, more...
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The Survey Is in: What We Learned About You in 2021
The results are in from the 2021 survey of our members and online community. More than 3,000 of you...
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The Future of Rural Energy Is Hybrid Renewable Systems
An uptick in research into hybrid renewable energy systems has demonstrated their benefits. These systems combine one or more...
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NREL Is Fast-Forwarding Emerging Desalination Tech Powered by Wave Energy
Ten competitors in the Waves to Water Prize are advancing emerging technologies to innovate portable wave-powered desalination devices. The...
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Building Open Source Into Procurement
I believe in solving problems at the root. I’ve been using open source software for decades, but became more...
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The World’s Most Expensive Consumer Electricity
This is the waste left over after using the world’s most expensive electricity. See if you recognize it. You...
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