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
Academic Majors of Interest
- Business›General Management
- Business›Global Development
- Business›Marketing
- Business›Operations and Supply Chain Management
- Computing›Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization
- Computing›Analytics
- Computing›Computational Media
- Computing›Computational Science and Engineering
- Computing›Computer Science
- Computing›Human-Centered Computing
- Computing›Human-Computer Interaction
- Computing›OMSCS asynchronous
- Computing›OMSCS synchronous
- Design›Architectural Technology
- Design›Architecture
- Design›Building Construction
- Design›Building Construction and Facility Management
- Design›City and Regional Planning
- Design›Geographic Information Science and Technology
- Design›Industrial Design
- Engineering›Aerospace Engineering
- Engineering›Applied Systems Engineering
- Engineering›Bioengineering
- Engineering›Bioinformatics
- Engineering›Biomedical Engineering
- Engineering›Chemical Engineering
- Engineering›Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Engineering›Civil Engineering
- Engineering›Computer Engineering
- Engineering›Electrical Engineering
- Engineering›Environmental Engineering
- Engineering›Health Systems
- Engineering›Industrial Engineering
- Engineering›International Logistics
- Engineering›Machine Learning
- Engineering›Materials Science and Engineering
- Engineering›Mechanical Engineering
- Engineering›Robotics
- Ivan Allen›Economics
- Ivan Allen›Economics and International Affairs
- Ivan Allen›Global Media and Cultures
- Ivan Allen›History, Technology, and Society
- Ivan Allen›International Affairs
- Ivan Allen›International Affairs, Science, and Technology
- Ivan Allen›Literature, Media, and Communication
- Ivan Allen›Public Policy
- Sciences›Applied Physics
- Sciences›Applied Physiology
- Sciences›Biochemistry
- Sciences›Biology
- Sciences›Chemistry
- Sciences›Physics
- Sciences›Statistics
Preferred Interests and Preparation
Sciences, Management, Business, Engineering.
Meeting Schedule & Location
Team Advisors
- Georgia Tech Research Institute
- Georgia Tech Research Institute