Building capability to teach humanitarian engineering: A reflection

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7/12/2016
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Southern Cross University
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Abstract
Massey University has been running the first year engineering design project Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Design Challenge for five years. In this time a number of faculty and curriculum changes have been made to ensure the project provides meaningful project-based-learning for students as well as providing realistic experience in humanitarian engineering. This article describes the challenges faced by teaching staff in facilitating this unique style of project-based-learning and successes, which have led to our teams winning multiple regional and international prizes.
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Engineering Education, Humanitarian Engineering, Service-Learning, Social Innovation, Global Engineer, Interdisciplinary Capability
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Proceedings of the 27th Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education, 2016, pp. 1 - 10