Goals
The United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to promote peace, end poverty, and protect the planet. Building resilient Infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable Industrialization, and fostering Innovation are the themes for UN SDG9. The UN SDG16 promotes peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, and building inclusive institutions at all levels. This VIP class integrates SDG 9 and 16 through a Peace Engineering framework. It will bring ideas, technologies, models and methods to help students act locally at GT and Atlanta 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.
Ukraine, Summer 2022
This Summer 2022 VIP course is an extension of the Peace Engineering/SDG course, starting June 2022. The course is a collaboration between Hampton University, Tougaloo College, and Georgia Tech and focuses on infrastructure, technical, and social issues facing displaced Ukrainian and international college students. The Hampton University Ukrainian Initiative is hosting 50-100 international and Ukrainian students forced to flee Ukraine to continue their studies at Hampton. Tougaloo College and Georgia Tech are supporting Hampton in a collaborative effort through the VIP framework. The United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to promote peace, end poverty, and protect the planet. Building resilient Infrastructure, promoting inclusive and sustainable Industrialization, and fostering Innovation are the themes for UN SDG9. The UN SDG16 promotes peaceful societies for sustainable development, and building inclusive institutions at all levels. This VIP class integrates SDG 9 and 16 through a Peace Engineering framework, with a use-case of Ukraine’s current challenges. It will bring ideas, technologies, models and methods to help students implement sustainable technology and infrastructure solutions to create peace and inclusive institutions to help Ukranian citizens. Students will engage directly with Ukrainian and international students to work on class projects. Classes will be on-line with instruction in English, Ukrainian, and Russian languages. This class will guide students through an engineering process to identify and understand current challenges resulting from the war in Ukraine, and develop and adopt tools for addressing the problems.
Additional Advisors
Dr. Andrij Horodysky - Hampton University
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.
Ukraine, Summer 2022
The issues addressed in this VIP are conflicts and challenges that can be addressed through technology or infrastructure solutions to help Ukranian citizens staying in Ukraine or displaced to other countries. The challenges include violence, poverty, diversity, inequality, insecurity, health, discrimination, access to food, and many other topics. The focus will be on identifying the issues in the specific context of ongoing war in Ukraine, 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
Preferred Interests and Preparation
Sciences, Management, Business, Engineering.
Meeting Schedule & Location
Team Advisors
- Georgia Tech Research Institute
- Georgia Tech Research Institute