SDGs: Resilient Infrastructures and Sustainable Innovation
Goals
This VIP class integrates United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 9 and 16. Building resilient Infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable Industrialization, and fostering Innovation are the themes for SDG9. The SDG16 promotes peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development and building inclusive institutions at all levels. This VIP will bring together ideas, technologies, models and methods to help students act locally and globally to implement sustainable technology and infrastructure solutions to create peace and inclusive institutions. Students will be provided opportunities to engage with a wide range of government, business, philanthropic organizations and universities to create innovative solutions to improve the human condition and promote peace and prosperity. This class will guide students through an engineering design process to identify existing conflicts and develop and adopt tools for addressing the problems.
Additional Advisors
Dr. Joseph Hughes – Drexel University
Issues Involved or Addressed
The issues addressed in this VIP are conflicts and challenges at local and global levels that can be addressed through technology or infrastructure solutions. The challenges include violence, poverty, diversity, inequality, insecurity, health, discrimination, access, and many other topics. The focus will be on identifying the issues in specific contexts, understanding the underlying factors and implementing sustainable design, technology and infrastructure solutions to overcome such issues through peace engineering.
Methods and Technologies
- Collaborating with SDG and peace engineering leaders and external stakeholders
- System modeling to identify the underlying components and factors contributing to the problems
- Creating metrics for measuring success of SDG and peace engineering goals
- Understanding the conflicts and problems through literature review studies and field research testbeds
- Developing technology solutions prototypes frameworks and plans to address the conflicts and challenges
- Developing proposals for expanding the projects through funding opportunities or partnerships with international organizations
Majors Sought
Business: General Management, Global Development, Marketing, Operations and Supply Chain Management
Design: Architectural Technology, Architecture, Building Construction, Building Construction and Facility Management, City and Regional Planning, Geographic Information Science and Technology, Industrial Design
Engineering: Aerospace Engineering, Analytics – Online MS, Bioengineering, Bioinformatics, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Health Systems, Industrial Engineering, International Logistics, Machine Learning, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics
Liberal Arts: Economics, Economics and International Affairs, Global Media and Cultures, History, Technology, and Society, International Affairs, International Affairs and Modern Languages, Literature, Media, and Communication, Public Policy
Sciences: Applied Physics, Applied Physiology, Biochemistry, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Statistics
Preferred Interests and Preparation
Sciences, Management, Business, Engineering.
Advisors
Khatereh Hadi
Khatereh Hadi
Khatereh.Hadi@gtri.gatech.edu
Kevin CaravatiGeorgia Tech Research Institutekevin.caravati@gtri.gatech.edu
Day, Time & Location
Full Team Meeting:
9:30-10:30 am Tuesday
Subteam meetings scheduled after classes begin.