Handbook

This course provides students with the opportunity to undertake a design project related to Humanitarian Engineering. The course will be problem based, with context aligned with clearly identified needs for a marginalised community, either locally or internationally. The course is intended to be predominantly team-based with groups working on humanitarian related challenges, as approved by the course coordinator.

Projects could include any or all of the following components as appropriate to the identified problem:

• background review of needs, context
• development of potential solutions, including review of existing data, research and technologies as appropriate
• evaluation of solutions
• economic
• social
• environmental
• technical
• possible prototyping and/or lab investigations and/or field work
• implementation strategy including involvement of the local community and consideration of long term sustainability.

Students will be encouraged to undertake community consultation e.g. via interviews or surveys or similar research to assist in the evaluation of solutions. The course is structured as independent project work with regularly scheduled meetings with an assigned academic advisor and/or industry mentor.