AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO EMBEDDING THE GLOBAL DIMENSION INTO ENGINEERING DESIGN: EMPATHY, ENGAGEMENT AND CREATIVITY

DS 82: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE15), Great Expectations: Design Teaching, Research & Enterprise, Loughborough, UK, 03-04.09.2015

Year: 2015
Editor: Guy Bingham, Darren Southee, John McCardle, Ahmed Kovacevic, Erik Bohemia, Brian Parkinson
Author: Hauke, Elizabeth; Cresswell-Maynard, Katie; Craddock, Daniel
Series: E&PDE
Institution: 1Senior Teaching Fellow, Imperial College London, 2Head of Learning, Research & Innovation, Engineers Without Borders UK, 3EWB Challenge Manager, Engineers Without Borders UK
Section: Collaboration
Page(s): 087-092
ISBN: 978-1-904670-62-9

Abstract

Education, and specifically engineering design, has a lot to offer in our efforts to promote and achieve sustainable human development (SHD). A focus on SHD can be enhanced by non-disciplinary and atypical learning environments that complement core engineering and engineering design studies. This paper presents a case study of an educational innovation resulting from a collaboration between an NGO and a university.

Keywords: Engineering design, global dimension, sustainable human development, engineering education

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