At the 2022 Engineering Global Development Stakeholder Summit, ASME’s EGD group convened industry leaders, innovators, academics, NGOs, and other leading voices in engineering whose work advances sustainable development for a high-level exploration of the emerging factors that are impacting the future of the engineering profession.
This substantive, solutions-based conversation addressed topics such as how best to equip future talent to practice technological stewardship and how to strengthen the pathways to achieving and promoting sustainable development through engineering.
The Summit focused on interdisciplinary perspectives, recognizing that the future of engineering lies in establishing and developing bridges across professions.
The findings presented in this report highlight the increasing interest and need within the engineering community to invest in and advance efforts towards sustainable development, including but not limited to: environmental sustainability, social equity, diversity, and inclusion. Notably, the analysis identified six emerging cultural shifts required to advance engineering and sustainable development efforts.
This report recommends that engineers who are addressing such challenges should:
- Take an interdisciplinary & multistakeholder approach
- Consider dynamic & interconnected systems
- Prioritize diversity & inclusion
- Challenge the perception that engineering is neutral
- Increase humility & center community perspectives
- Broaden engineering goals to include environmental & social outcomes
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