Humanitarian Engineering - MSc, PGCert,PGDip, PGA
Postgraduate
In Coventry
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Coventry
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Duration
1 Year
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Start date
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Humanitarian Engineering’ is defined as the use of science and engineering to invent, create, design, develop, or improve technologies which promote the well-being of communities which are facing grand humanitarian challenges (fast growing populations, poor, disaster-hit, marginalised, or under-served communities).
This interdisciplinary programme promotes appropriate, sustainable, and holistic solutions to global challenges by integrating science into a broader practical scheme. You will learn to tackle global problems (energy, water, natural disasters, humanitarian logistics, conflict and wars, global health, overpopulation, poverty and underinvestment in low-income countries) using your skills to draw together different disciplinary approaches. Throughout the course, you’ll address the causes of these problems, consider preventative approaches, and implement suitable responses.
Your studies will provide you with an academically rigorous postgraduate level interdisciplinary training in the fields of Humanitarian Engineering, spanning from international development to humanitarianism and disaster emergencies. It involves a strong practical component with exposure to the ‘real world’ of organisations and practitioners and experience that boosts employability.
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About this course
Our postgraduate courses in Humanitarian Engineering are aimed at people from a wide range of backgrounds: from Engineering to Social Sciences, Law, Health, Management, Business and Economics.
Graduate Destinations:
Graduates of this programme will work across a broad range of areas. Students are expected to come from a broad array of international and professional backgrounds and go on after graduation into a wide variety of professional positions. Many Humanitarian Engineering graduates will work with the governments of developing countries managing the development process (e.g. central banks, ministries of finance, rural development, and education). Others will go on to multilateral development institutions like the World Bank, the IMF, or the United Nations; others to NGO Leaders of all sizes and descriptions; and still others will go on to work in the private sector, in jobs as diverse as professional services, manufacturing, and investment banking, to name just a few. Some students may decide to pursue PhD studies.
Work Experience Opportunities:
During the programme, students will have the opportunity to get involved in projects managed by organisations and professional services in developing and transitional countries.
2:i undergraduate degree (or equivalent).
Applicants should have as a minimum a Bachelor’s degree (in Engineering, Science, Social Science, Business, Medical Science) with a minimum classification of Second Class Honours, Upper Division (2:i) or its international equivalent. We will consider graduates of all disciplines.
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Subjects
- Design
- Global
- Project
- Engineering
- Ethics
- Humanitarian
- Environmental
- Management
- Humanitarian Law
- Communication
Course programme
- Ethics, Theory and Practices (15 credits)
- Humanitarian Engineering: Ethics, Theory and Practices (15 credits)
- An introduction to Global Health (15 credits)
- Water and Environmental Management (15 credits)
- One Humanity; Shared Responsibility (15 credits)
- Disasters, Resilience and Urban Data (15 credits)
- Renewable Energy (15 credits)
- Project (45 credits)
Your choice of optional modules will help you to further tailor the programme to your interests.
Optional core module:
- Humanitarian Law (15 credits)
- Sustainable Cities and Infrastructures for Emergencies (15 credits)
- Sustainable Operations and Humanitarian Supply Management (15 credits)
- Communication and Leadership (15 credits)
- Design for Sustainability (15 credits)
- Project Management (15 credits)
Humanitarian Engineering - MSc, PGCert,PGDip, PGA