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Humanitarian engineering in the engineering curriculum.

机译：工程课程中的人文工程。

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There are many opportunities to use engineering skills to improve the conditions for marginalized communities, but our current engineering education praxis does not instruct on how engineering can be a force for human development. In a time of great inequality and exploitation, the desire to work with the impoverished is prevalent, and it has been proposed to adjust the engineering curriculum to include a larger focus on human needs. This proposed curriculum philosophy is called humanitarian engineering.;Professional engineers have played an important role in the modern history of power, wealth, economic development, war, and industrialization; they have also contributed to infrastructure, sanitation, and energy sources necessary to meet human need. Engineers are currently at an important point in time when they must look back on their history in order to be more clear about how to move forward. The changing role of the engineer in history puts into context the call for a more balanced, community-centred engineering curriculum.;Qualitative, phenomenographic research was conducted in order to understand the need, opportunity, benefits, and limitations of a proposed humanitarian engineering curriculum. The potential role of the engineer in marginalized communities and details regarding what a humanitarian engineering program could look like were also investigated. Thirty-two semi-structured research interviews were conducted in Canada and Ghana in order to collect a pool of understanding before a phenomenographic analysis resulted in five distinct outcome spaces.;The data suggests that an effective curriculum design will include teaching technical skills in conjunction with instructing about issues of social justice, social location, cultural awareness, root causes of marginalization, a broader understanding of technology, and unlearning many elements about the role of the engineer and the dominant economic/political ideology. Cross-cultural engineering development placements are a valuable pedagogical experience but risk benefiting the student disproportionately more than the receiving community. Local development placements offer different rewards and liabilities.;To conclude, a major adjustment in engineering curriculum to address human development is appropriate and this new curriculum should include both local and international placements. However, the great force of altruism must be directed towards creating meaningful and lasting change.
机译：利用工程技能改善边缘化社区的条件有很多机会，但是我们目前的工程教育实践并未指导工程如何成为人类发展的力量。在一个极度不平等和剥削的时代，与贫困者共事的愿望很普遍，因此有人提出调整工程课程以更加关注人类需求。这种提议的课程哲学被称为人道主义工程学。专业工程师在权力，财富，经济发展，战争和工业化的现代历史中发挥了重要作用。它们还为满足人类需求所必需的基础设施，卫生设施和能源做出了贡献。当前，工程师正处在重要时刻，他们必须回顾自己的历史以便更清楚地了解前进的方向。工程师在历史上角色的不断变化使人们呼吁建立一个更加平衡，以社区为中心的工程课程。进行了定性的现象学研究，以了解拟议中的人道主义工程课程的需求，机会，利益和局限性。还研究了工程师在边缘化社区中的潜在角色，以及有关人道主义工程计划的外观的详细信息。为了在现象学分析得出五个截然不同的结果空间之前收集加拿大的理解，在加拿大和加纳进行了32次半结构化研究访谈;数据表明，有效的课程设计应包括结合以下方面的教学技术技能：指导有关社会正义，社会地位，文化意识，边缘化的根本原因，对技术的更广泛了解以及对工程师的作用和主要的经济/政治意识形态的许多知识的学习。跨文化工程发展实习是宝贵的教学经验，但给学生带来的收益比接受社区更大的风险。地方发展安置提供不同的奖励和责任。总而言之，对工程课程进行重大调整以应对人类发展是适当的，并且新课程应包括本地和国际安置。但是，利他主义的强大力量必须指向创造有意义和持久的变化。

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