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IFEES-GEDC 2-HOUR Session

Introductions
Hans J. Hoyer, secretary-general, IFEES and executive director, GEDC
Stephanie Farrell, president, IFEES

1:15pm Session
Facilitators:
Yannis Yortsos, USC
Cindy Cooper, Senior Program Officer, The Lemelson Foundation
Sustainability: A Global Perspective
This panel will address key issues related to sustainability and the role of engineering schools across the globe in addressing this challenge. It will discuss the state of energy transition, as summarized in COP28, and describe other aspects of decarbonization across the various domains of the economy and society, including those contained in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the National Academies grand challenges. Its goal is to further advance the call for action among engineering schools at the global scale in terms of both engineering education and research.

2:00 pm Session
Facilitators:
Ramiro Jordan. The University of New Mexico
Ann-Perry Witmer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
PEACE ENGINEERING
The WHY
There are urgent calls to action by the NASEM, the Nobel Prize Summit, the United Nations and global scientists to address and solve, in this decade (2020–2030), crucial and widely recognized global challenges to peace and security before they become more complex and more environmentally, financially, and socially costly—before we reach the point of no return.
The WHAT
Peace Engineering is the application of STEAM principles, sustainable practices, cultural sensitivity, and innovation to promote and support peace. It recognizes the important contribution that engineering, the hard and social sciences and other disciplines such as law and finance make toward a world where prosperity, sustainability, security, transparency, and a culture of equity and quality thrive.
The HOW
An outcome of the First Global Peace Engineering Conference, WEEF-GEDC 2018, was the creation of the Peace Engineering Consortium, a collective tasked with developing and disseminating knowledge, tools, and talent to influence peace efforts globally. Some high priority topical areas are 1) Climate Security; 2) Life Sustainable Infrastructures; 3) Materials and Sustainability; 4) Complex Systems Modeling, 5) Global Security and Cooperative Monitoring, and 6) Diplomacy and Conflict resolution.

New Mexico Dashboard Case Study
Water, Air Quality, Health, and Finance/Economic Dashboard (WAQHE)
The Dashboard is the outcome of a final project of the ENG 220—Engineering, Business, Sustainability, Ethics, Society, and Justice, Equity, Diversity, Accessibility, Inclusion (JEDAI)—class in the Peace Engineering Minor program at UNM. 54 undergraduate students participated and divided into 6 teams working in Water, and 4 in Air Quality, Health and Finance/Economics.

Two vital and unique resources for the planet are water and air. Any alterations in their composition can have detrimental effects on humans and living organisms. The public must recognize that action is required. Availability of verifiable, trusted, compiled, accessible data will promote our critical need to work toward equitable adaptation and attain sustainable resiliency in our city, county, state, country, and globally.

A Verifiable Trusted data dashboard is needed to provide on-line access to historical, modern, and current perspectives on water, air quality, health, and economic information. A dashboard is needed to help inform, not influence, the public about why all concerned citizens, institutions, and levels of government must do their part!

2:45 pm Introduction to 3:00 pm session
S.Y., Engineering Education Journal (EER), Tsinghua University
3:00 pm Closing remarks
Dr. Hans J. Hoyer