This paper describes the second half of a first-year course designed by an interdisciplinary team of faculty from engineering, humanities, social science, and entrepreneurship and innovation. Our course, “Humanitarian Engineering Past & Present,” begins with a nineteenth-century sewerage problem before turning to currentday problems of sanitation. Having studied in depth the challenges of providing acceptable sanitation to an ethnically, economically, and topographically diverse community in a nineteenth century industrial city, long before sanitation was considered a basic human right, students form teams to identify and propose a solution to a sanitation problem in some particular part of the contemporary world.

Creator

• Sullivan, John M., Jr.
• Quinn, Paula
• Dodson, Leslie
• Gaudette, Glenn
• Abel, Curtis
• Bergendahl, John
• DiBiasio, David
• Boudreau, Kristin

Keyword

• Humanitarian Engineering
• Problem-Based Learning
• First Year

Date created

• 6/24/17

Resource type

• Conference Proceeding

Event

• 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Extent

• 21 pages

Source

• https://peer.asee.org/knowing-and-caring-about-sanitation

Rights statement

• In Copyright

License

• All rights reserved

Last modified

• 2020-09-28