Humanitarian Engineering
The Humanitarian Engineering Program gets you involved from your freshman year through your Senior Design capstone courses. Everyone at CSM will learn the fundamentals of engineering by the time you graduate. With the Humanitarian Engineering Program, you will turn those fundamentals into useful applications and directly apply them to the world.
The Humanitarian Engineering Program offers an Area of Special Interest, a Minor in Humanitarian Studies and Technology, and a Minor in Humanitarian Engineering. A special module in Nature and Human Values (NHV) serves as a gateway introduction to the program.
Download the Minor Declaration Form here: Minor-ASI-Form.pdf
Turn in completed form to Registrar's office.
New! Download a copy of the
Humanitarian Engineering Minor Program Course Checklist
to help guide you through your required courses.
Area of Special Interest
An Area of Special Interest in Humanitarian Engineering requires 12 credit-hours:
* 9 credits must be from the LAIS core courses
* 3 credits must be from associated LAIS or Economics and Business (EB) courses
Humanitarian Studies and Technology Requirements
A minor in Humanitarian Studies and Technology requires a total of 18 credit-hours:
3 credit-hours must be from the following LAIS core courses:
* LAIS 320 Introduction to Ethics
* LAIS 321 Political Philosophy and Engineering
6 credit-hours are selected from the following LAIS core courses:
* LAIS 402 Writing Proposals for a Better World
* LAIS 449 Cultural Dynamics of Global Development
* LAIS 475 Engineering Cultures in the Developing World
* LAIS 476 Technology and International Development
* LAIS 498E Humanitarian Engineering
* LAIS 498M African Crisis
6 credit-hours must be from one of the following area studies tracks:
* United States Track:
o LAIS 285 Introduction to Law and Legal Systems
o LAIS 485 Constitutional Law and Politics
o LAIS 487 Environmental Politics and Policy
o LAIS 488 Water Politics and Policy
* Latin America Track:
o LAIS 335 International Political Economy of Latin America
o LAIS 435 Latin American Development
o LAIS 436 Hemispheric Integration of the Americas
o LAIS 487 Environmental Politics and Policy
o LAIS 452 Corruption and Development
* Asian Track:
o LAIS 337 International Political Economy of Asia
o LAIS 437 Asian Development
o LAIS 452 Corruption and Development
* Africa and Middle East Track:
o LAIS 339 International Political Economy of the Middle East
o LAIS 344 International Political Economy of Africa
o LAIS 452 Corruption and Development
*Note: With the approval of a Humanitarian Studies advisor, students may substitute these 6 credit-hours with 6 credit-hours of foreign language courses, courses in the McBride Honors Program in Engineering and Public Affairs, or courses from Economics and Business.
* Economics and Business:
o EBGN 310 Environmental and Resource Economics
o EBGN 321 Engineering Economics
o EBGN 330 Energy Economics
o EBGN 342 Economic Development
* Foreign Languages:
o 6 credits of a Foreign Language in the same sequence
* McBride Honors Program:
o See your Humanitarian Studies advisor for courses available in the McBride Honors Program
3 credit-hours must be a technical elective with a humanitarian emphasis or component. Assessment and acceptance of this course will be determined on a case-by-case basis by a Humanitarian Studies advisor, in consultation with the division offering the elective. Descriptions of some technical elective courses can be found at the technical electives link.
Humanitarian Engineering Requirements
A minor in Humanitarian Engineering requires all of the above requirements for the Humanitarian Studies and Technology Minor plus the following courses, which are required of all undergraduate students in the engineeering division (for a total of 27 credit-hours):
* 3 credit-hours of Multidisciplinary Engineering Labs (MEL) I & II:
MEL will be adding labs with Humanitarian Engineering enhancements.
* 6 credit-hours of Senior Design:
Engineering students enrolled in the minor and ASI programs will receive preference in the assignment of humanitarian projects.
With permission from minor advisor, possible substitutions include measurement and senior design courses from any ABET accredited engineering program at CSM.
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