Prospective Global Engineers
Over half the world’s population still lives on less than $5.50 a day.
TheÌýrole of engineers in contributing to global poverty reduction and in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals is evolving. Typically, the engineer’s role in addressing these challenges has been confined to community-, regional-, or national-scale service interventions and technology design and development.ÌýAfter fifty years of such approaches, over half the world’s population still lives on less than $5.50 a day. With our innovative approach to training globally responsible engineers that builds on over 15 years of graduate and undergraduate education, the Mortenson Center is working to change that.Ìý
Global engineers at the Mortenson Center will learn the historical and present causes of persistent poverty and systemic barriers to prosperity. This knowledge will inform the choices engineers make and help move the engineering sector away from a product and community-level focus to a focus on addressing the root causes of poverty. The Mortenson Center positions Global Engineering as a complement to Global Health and Development Economics while embracing a historically contextualized and anti-colonial training.Ìý
Read more about our methodology in the article authored by Mortenson Center faculty, staff and students titled:ÌýÌý