Development engineering
ENV-470 / 4 credits
Teacher(s): Schönenberger Klaus Benedikt, Makohliso Solomzi
Language: English
Withdrawal: It is not allowed to withdraw from this subject after the registration deadline.
Remark: Development Engineering: Innovation and Technologies in the Global South
Summary
This course teaches the fundamentals of technologies for development (Development Engineering) to design, pilot, and deploy appropriate, affordable and robust technologies to address sustainable development challenges and especially those related to extreme poverty in Low-income settings.
Content
Lectures:
Week 1 : Introduction to the course and to Development Engineering
Week 2 : Flipped classroom:What is poverty?
Week 3 : Flipped classroom:Sustainable development in the context of Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Week 4 : Flipped classroom:Essential Technologies 1
Week 5 : Flipped classroom:Essential Technologies 2
Week 6: Introduction to part II of the course; EssentialTech Projects
Week 7 : Flipped Classroom: Road to Impact
Week 8 : Flipped classroom: Product Value Chain (Part I)
Week 9 : Flipped classroom: Product Value Chain (Part II)
Week 10 : Flipped classroom: Sustainable Business Model Canvas
Week 11 : Development and Peace
Week 12 : Development and Humanitarian Action
Week 13: Finalization of group work
Week 14: Presentation of group work
Keywords
Development, development engineering, developing countries, emerging countries, Global South, Low-and-Middle Income Countries (LMIC), poverty reduction, social entrepreneurship, technologies for development, sustainable impact, sustainable business models, value chain canvas, scale-up, PeaceTech, Humanitarian-Peace-Development Nexus.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Identify essential technologies and how they contribute to sustainable development
- Analyze affordable, sustainable, and socially acceptable technology solutions, for development
- Elaborate the interlinkages between development, humanitarian action and peace promotion.
- Carry out Development engineering projects in an interdisciplinary manner, i.e. integrating the contributions and expertise of different disciplines.
- Propose sustainable and socially responsible business solutions, adapted to the specific context of Low and middle-income countries.
- Characterize underlying causes and effects of extreme poverty, faced by emerging and developing countries.
Transversal skills
- Demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking
- Access and evaluate appropriate sources of information.
- Identify the different roles that are involved in well-functioning teams and assume different roles, including leadership roles.
- Give feedback (critique) in an appropriate fashion.
Teaching methods
Lectures (100% in English) flipped classroom, invited lectures, group work/presentation, recommended reading list.
Expected student activities
Homework, peer feedback, group work and presentation, mandatory watching of MOOC videos.
Assessment methods
During the semester
- Group report on case study (part 1 of course) (40%)
- Peer feedback (part 1 of course): Continuing assessment (20%)
- Presentation of group work (40%) with individual contributions of each student (part 2 of course)
Supervision
Others | Teachers and teaching assistants will be available to guide students in their various group works. |
Resources
Bibliography
The bibliography will be provided at the beginning of the course.
In the programs
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Development engineering
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Practical work: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Development engineering
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Practical work: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Development engineering
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Practical work: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Development engineering
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Practical work: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Development engineering
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Practical work: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Development engineering
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Practical work: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: During the semester (summer session)
- Subject examined: Development engineering
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Practical work: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks