‘Peace engineering’ is more about achieving peace, sustainability, and resilience than it is about pure engineering, says Professor Ramiro Jordan, associate dean at the University of New Mexico. It is part of an emerging global movement to transform engineering in order to save the planet, through academic volunteerism and expertise, curriculum tweaks and transdisciplinary cooperation.
“Peace engineering – or engineering peace – is about sustainability. You cannot have one without the other,” Jordan told University World News. Peace engineering draws on many disciplines as well as engineering’s rich toolbox to find new ways to solve problems.
Other initiatives in the United States with similar ideals are Engineering for One Planet and Engineers Without Borders.
These and other developments in engineering that support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and greater global resilience were debated at the recent 2023 symposium of ABET, the American quality assurance service provider that accredits more than 4,500 academic programmes in 895 institutions in 40 countries, in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and maths). They were further explored by University World News.
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