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The Five “E’s” of Human Centered Design in Global Deve...
Editor’s note: This is one of the resources Engineering for Change has gathered as starting points for designers and contestants in the Siemens Design Challenge as they develop products...
Words Fail Us: Racism in International Development Publishin...
Earlier this year, we withdrew from guest editing a special journal issue on failures because the publisher’s practices were racist. What we learned shows pervasive issues, and a few...
Can Handwashing with Ash or Soil Prevent COVID-19?
Handwashing with ash or soil is traditional in impoverished or remote communities that do not have easy access to soap. Are those methods effective at preventing the spread of...
Eight Lessons Learned Designing a COVID-19 Response Ventilat...
Mechanical ventilators in medicine date back to the early 1800s, but even after decades of design evolution, there is ample room for improvement. Over the past two years, I...
Coronavirus: Were in a Real-Time Laboratory of a More Sustai...
A pause has been forced on urban life. Quiet roads, empty skies, deserted high streets and parks, closed cinemas, cafés and museums – a break in the spending and...
The Catastrophic Intersectionality of WASH, Climate Change a...
The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, has caused social and economic disruption worldwide and a reckoning of the balance in our priorities between public health and the economy. Our global response...
Experts or Not, Engineers Can Help Respond to the Pandemic
Let’s get straight to the point. Anybody can help find solutions to problems; and COVID-19 is a problem. You...
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The Case for Sustainable Infrastructure: ASCE’s Online Course, Policy Statements and Resources
The American Society of Civil Engineers promotes sustainability in the design and construction of infrastructure. In support of that...
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How Changes Brought on by Coronavirus Could Help Tackle Climate Change
Stock markets around the world had some of their worst performance in decades this past week, well surpassing that...
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Design Inspiration: How Puerto Rican Farmers Are Bootstrapping Cooling Tech
Enter the Innovate for Impact: Siemens Design Contest to solve post-harvest loss challenges like low-cost food refrigeration. Puerto Rican...
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What’s Good and What’s Possible: Inspired Engineering and Helpful Tips for a Pandemic
The world is finding new and inventive ways to employ technology to solve the problems of a pandemic. Around...
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Working Remotely: Seven Tips for Productive Online Meetings
Editor’s note: Grace Burleson is an Expert Research Fellow at Engineering for Change who wrote this article for Medium...
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Recommendations for Installing Household Water Connections in Ghana
Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series about lessons learned during Safe Water Network’s experience household...
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Nominations Are Open for Mortenson’s Awards for the New Global Engineers
The CU Boulder Mortenson Center for Global Engineering is pioneering a new vision for engineering for global development, and...
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How Social Entrepreneurs Can Boost Creativity
Why it is hard to be creative? Creativity is one topic in self-development courses that evokes immediate responses from...
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Engineers Are Not Ending Poverty. Time for a Change?
Engineers have designed and deployed appropriate technologies that solve the problems of global poverty, but poverty persists. The abundance...
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