Seminar Series: Climate Change, Conflict, and Engineering for Peace
Channel: Engineering for Change
Date: 2020-03-12

Loss, conflict, and reduced wellbeing are common in regions of the world stressed by climate change and increasing competition for limited resources. The conventional approach to engineering design that creates products, services, and infrastructure for today’s needs must be reevaluated to consider resilience and adaptability, and further, include skillsets from anthropology, economics, and business. This Engineering for Change Seminar Series webinar was led by Dr. Nathan Johnson of Arizona State University and Dr. Jesse Austin-Breneman of the University of Michigan. It outlines approaches to innovation that blend academic research with business practices to create use-inspired solutions with examples in rapidly deployable services for refugees, microgrid design techniques, resilient infrastructure, and workforce development.