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Vision
& Philosophy
We
are the only Master's International civil & environmental
engineering programs in the country
Our
students have served in the following countries: Belize, Cameroon,
Dominican Republic, Honduras, Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania,
Macedonia, Madagascar, Panama, Philippines, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu
Our
Vision: The world’s current population growth,
combined with dramatic increases in per capita resource consumption
that has little regard for future generations, contributes to
increasingly serious social and environmental problems. These
problems will only worsen over the next 50 years as the projected
world population nears 9 billion and developing nations become
more industrialized. Healthy survival requires a sustainable future,
one in which human and industrial systems support an enhanced
quality of life by recognizing and seeking to understand this
interconnectivity. In the coming decades, students with expertise
in sustainability development will be in great demand as the world
tries to reverse this looming global crisis.
We
believe that society is at the beginning of a new revolution,
the sustainability revolution, and in upcoming decades, engineers
will play a critical role in the eradication of poverty and hunger
and facilitation of sustainable development, appropriate technology,
beneficial infrastructure, and social change. Please join us in
shaping this new revolution.
Our
Educational philosophy: Our educational philosophy
can best be summarized by one of our graduate students, who in
response to a question about what he learned from performing his
research over a two-year period in Honduras answered that “along
with gaining valuable engineering skills, he also learned what
it was like to put engineering into practice while taking into
consideration the social, economic and environmental limitations
of the developing world.”
In 1992 Maurice Strong, Secretary
General for the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development,
stated, “the concept of sustainable development would be
impossible without the full input of engineers.”
“All
people, whatever their stage of development and their social and
economic conditions, have the right to have access to an adequate
supply of safe drinking water” World Health Organization
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