Exploring Intersections of Global Grand Challenges and Sustainable Development Goals

White, Christina; Tull, Renetta G.; Sigamoney, Rovani; Zastavker, Yevgeniya V.

doi:10.1109/weef.2017.8467044

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“…To understand how these various venues work together towards a single goal of addressing global challenges and the ways in which international educators may come together to create holistic experiential curricula to prepare our graduates to solve these challenges, we are in process of conducting this survey with the international thought leaders and are conducting interviews with some of the Summit participants to learn their perspectives on the intersections of the Grand Challenges and the Sustainable Development Goals [27].…”

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International Perspectives on Intersecting Engineering's Grand Challenges and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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is currently a postdoctoral engineering education research associate with Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) Innovation Centre. She completed her Doctoral degree from Teachers College, Columbia University where she studied engineering education. She is the Global Chair and founding director of the National Academy of Engineering Longhorn Grand Challenges Scholars & K12 Partners Program at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. White is also the director of an outreach program called Design, Technology, & Engineering for All Children (DTEACh)which has reached more than 1000 teachers and 85,000 students. She is the lead inventor on a patent for assistive technology. Her current research includes global competencies, innovative design-based pedagogy, humanitarian engineering, and ways to attract and retain traditionally underrepresented groups in engineering education.

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Section: Global Venues Bringing Attention To the Gc-sdg Intersectionsmentioning

confidence: 99%