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  • 1Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. passino@ece.osu.edu

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Engineering education needs enhancement to foster humanitarian efforts and end global poverty. This study proposes strategies to integrate ethics, global issues, and practical volunteerism into engineering curricula, promoting engineers as effective community servants.

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Area of Science:

  • Engineering Education
  • Humanitarian Engineering
  • Ethics in Engineering

Background:

  • New technologies can alleviate global poverty, yet engineering education inadequately prepares engineers for humanitarian roles.
  • A gap exists in training engineers for effective community service and volunteerism.
  • Existing engineering ethics courses often lack focus on practical humanitarian applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce strategies for augmenting engineering ethics education to promote humanitarian efforts.
  • To encourage engineers to become effective volunteers for community service.
  • To bridge the gap between engineering education and practical humanitarian work.

Main Methods:

  • Integrating codes of ethics, moral frameworks, and service standards into engineering ethics.
  • Incorporating global issues and community influences into technical design problems.
  • Utilizing extracurricular engineering organizations for a theory-practice approach to volunteerism.

Main Results:

  • Developed sample assignments and design problems integrating community constraints.
  • Demonstrated the effectiveness of extracurricular organizations in providing practical volunteer experience.
  • Contrasted student organization and service-learning approaches for volunteer education.

Conclusions:

  • Engineering education requires structural improvements to cultivate humanitarian engineers.
  • Long-term infrastructure is needed to support lifelong humanitarian engineering activities.
  • Enhanced ethics education can empower engineers to address global poverty through service.