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University of Massachusetts Amherst

2007

Humanitarian engineering

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Humanitarian Engineering: Ethics, Theory, Practices, Juan C. Lucena, Jon Leydens, Carl Mitcham, Junko Munakata-Marr, Jay Straker Apr 2007

Humanitarian Engineering: Ethics, Theory, Practices, Juan C. Lucena, Jon Leydens, Carl Mitcham, Junko Munakata-Marr, Jay Straker

Ethics in Science and Engineering National Clearinghouse

This course is an introduction to humanitarian engineering from ethical, cultural, and practical perspectives. Through this course, faculty and students will collectively develop and refine a set of humanitarian engineering ethics criteria (constraints). Students will then critically apply these criteria to specific examples of humanitarian technologies, including one that they will research and develop into a case-study. Students will also research multiple career pathways in humanitarian-related organizations and practices and consider potential careers as humanitarian scientists and engineers.