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A publication spearheaded by the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering & Resilience seeks to create better alignment among academic programs and sector needs when it comes to training engineers in global development.

The publication comes after the center hosted over 100 participants from universities, donors, government agencies and industry partners for a virtual workshop series as part of a National Science Foundation grant to advance engineering education. Together, that group established a comprehensive global engineering body of knowledge and the paper Aligning learning objectives and approaches in global engineering graduate programs: Review and recommendations by an interdisciplinary working group, was .Ìý

Mortenson Center Managing Director Laura MacDonald is the lead author. She comments on this first-of-its-kind paper saying, “The role of engineers must evolve and account for structural and systemic barriers to global development and equity. Engineering education must change to support this evolution. What we present in the paper ensures that global engineers have the technical skills they need to succeed, but also the transversal and interdisciplinary skills that are required to work across secto