CIVL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Human-Centered Design
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Humanitarian engineering: using engineering to meet the basic needs of all humans (regardless of stature), incorporates altruism + innovation + To ensure the water points (although there are a lot in malawi) are accessible and functional (as there are a lot of broken ones) The engineer worked to identify where all the broken water points are located and invest in innovation ways to keep them more durable (e. g. government strategies) Rather than just simply creating more pumps, they were investigating the after effect of the water points and how to maintain them (in comparison to the traditional engineering approach) Ethical considerations --> there are a lot of ethical considerations to humanitarian engineering, e. g: To avoid this, there is are 7 guiding questions to ensure ethical considerations are made --> mitchan and munoz (2010): What is the likelihood of the engineering being. Humanitarian engineering failures --> "learning from failure" by david.
