International Sustainable Engineering Initiative

Mission:

In the 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. Our Mission is to promote international sustainable development engineering by nurturing and educating young people to value and implement this vision of a better world.

International Senior Design

All civil and environmental engineering students at Michigan Tech must complete a Senior Design project as a requirement for graduation. The Senior Design project is meant to prepare students for professional practice as an engineer. Each year since 2001, Michigan Tech’s Civil and Environmental engineering Department has offered its students the opportunity to do their projects in a developing country as part of the department’s International Sustainable Engineering Initiative.

Master’s International Program

The Master’s International Program combines a graduate degree in civil or environmental engineering with 2+ years of training and engineering service with the U.S. Peace Corps. The program is the only one of its kind in the United States. Students have served in 16 countries and have worked on a variety of engineering projects related to water supply and treatment, wastewater treatment, solid waste management, public health training, construction, and water resource planning and management.

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