The Global Engineering track explores how engineering can address complex global development challenges. Students examine how engineering solutions contribute to sustainable development in areas such as infrastructure, water and environmental systems, public health, agriculture, and technology innovation, while learning alongside engineers, practitioners, and community partners.
The programs emphasize applied, field-based learning rather than classroom instruction. Students learn through site visits, design-focused activities, collaborative projects, and guided reflection, and see how technical solutions are developed within a specific social, environmental, and cultural context, and what responsible, context-appropriate engineering practice looks like.
In the Global Field Engagement
Visit technology hubs, energy and water providers, and construction and infrastructure projects, work in small groups on field assignments, and take on a community-engaged learning project with a local host organization.
In the Global Practicum
Join one of GEI's development initiatives with local student peers and carry the technical side of the project: assessment, design, prototyping, testing, and build, adapted to local conditions and materials and documented so that others can replicate it.
In an Internship
Work full time with an engineering firm, infrastructure or utility provider, technology organization, or NGO, in areas from civil, water, and environmental engineering to energy, computing, and data, with a placement description agreed before you arrive.
