ENGINEERING FOR THE DEVELOPING WORLD - FALL 2007

This course focuses on appropriate and sustainable technology and small-scale sustainable community planning and development.  The course cuts across many technical and non-technical disciplines. The course objectives can best be described as follows:

• Introduce students to open ended problems at the community level
• Help students develop the skills to solve those problems and provide holistic engineering solutions that are sustainable and appropriate to the community being served
• Help students develop cultural and social awareness
• Help students work in interdisciplinary teams
• Give students the opportunity to reflect on the importance of their community service
• Give students a professional work ethic
• Help students gain a better understanding of the importance of engineering in society and in developing community development.

This course has been designed around the recommendations for general engineering education suggested in the ASCE Body of Knowledge for the 21st Century and by ABET (criteria 3 and 4).