Engineering for Change

Founded| 2009
Founder| American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Engineers Without Borders
Type| International development and education charity
Focus| International development, sustainable development, appropriate technology, open source, health, water, sanitation, architecture, aid, infrastructure and education
Location|

* ASME headquarters, 2 Park Ave. New York City , U.S.

Area served

| International
Method| Online collaboration and education

Members

| c. 45,000

Key people

| President Iana Aranda[1]

Employees

| 4 full-time, 2 part-time
Website| engineeringforchange.org

Engineering for Change (E4C) is an online platform and international community of engineers, scientists, non-governmental organizations, local community advocates and other innovators working to solve global development problems. The organization's founding partners are the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Engineers Without Borders USA. It is now under the umbrella of ASME's Engineering for Global Development program. Collaborators include Siemens Stiftung, The Level Market, Autodesk Foundation, Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, CAWST, WFEO, ITU, Institute of Food Technologists, and United Nations Major Group for Children and Youth. E4C facilitates the development of affordable, locally appropriate and sustainable solutions to the most pressing humanitarian challenges and shares them freely online as a form of open source appropriate technology.

Members of the E4C community use the platform's online tools to share knowledge, research global development issues, products and services, and deepen their professional development. The organization provides services through seven channels:

* The Solutions Library, a database of products that meet basic needs
* Monthly webinars and academic seminars
* Research Fellowship
* News and analysis
* Research in collaboration with external partners
* Online courses in global development engineering and design
* Jobs and volunteer opportunities board

Information about products and services fall into eight categories on the organization's Web site, and they can include big infrastructural projects such as community water purification and bridge building, or smaller, personal technologies such as bicycle-powered electricity generators and cellphone applications for healthcare.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Solutions Library
* 3 Education
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## History

In 2009, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers created a website to pull together the disparate sources of information on appropriate technology and solutions in global development. The site aggregated information, hosted a library of often little-known technologies, and offered tools to enable collaboration among development teams worldwide. Throughout 2010, the site operated in alpha and then beta with a mostly closed group of users. A public site, at engineeringforchange.info, mirrored some of the content on the test site, but without all of its functionality. IEEE and EWB-USA signed on as partners in time for the public launch on January 4, 2011.[2]

At present, the organization has more than 45,000 members and a social media following of more than one million.

## Solutions Library

The Solutions Library is a database of hundreds of products and services that meet basic needs in underserved communities. Entries are investigated and posted by the organization's staff and research fellows working remotely from home offices worldwide. The information on each entry is standardized to allow users to compare similar products to facilitate research and decision-making.[3]

## Education

Education is an important part of Engineering for Change. The Web site provides educational materials on how to design and implement solutions, and an archive of relevant academic programs. Two free [4] teach principles of engineering for global development, and the website compiles academic programs, books and other professional development resources.[5]

## See also

* Appropriate technology
* Open source appropriate technology

## References

1. ↑ "Who We Are". https://www.engineeringforchange.org/who-we-are/.
2. ↑ "A Design Tool Whose Time Has Come". nextbillion.net. http://www.nextbillion.net/blog/2011/01/05/engineering-for-change.
3. ↑ "Solutions Library". E4C. https://www.engineeringforchange.org/solutions/products.
4. ↑ "Online Courses". E4C. https://www.engineeringforchange.org/what-we-do/introduction-to-egd/.
5. ↑ "Career Resources". E4C. https://www.engineeringforchange.org/what-we-do/professional-development/.

## External links

* Official website
* "A Design Tool Whose Time Has Come" \- NextBillion
* Innovative Banana Leaf Sanitary Pads Hit a Design Snag \- Good.is

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Subsidiaries|

* GlobalSpec
* IEEE Standards Association

Predecessors|

* American Institute of Electrical Engineers
* Institute of Radio Engineers

Technical
councils|

* Biometrics Council
* Council on Electronic Design Automation
* Council on Superconductivity
* Nanotechnology Council
* Sensors Council
* Systems Council
* Committee on Earth Observation
* Technical Activities Board

Technical
societies|

* Aerospace and Electronic Systems
* Antennas and Propagation
* Broadcast Technology
* Circuits and Systems
* Communications
* Components Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology
* Computational Intelligence
* Computer
* Consumer Electronics
* Control Systems
* Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation
* Education
* Electromagnetic Compatibility
* Electron Devices
* Engineering in Medicine and Biology
* Geoscience and Remote Sensing
* Industrial Electronics
* Industry Applications
* Information Theory
* Instrumentation and Measurement
* Intelligent Transportation Systems
* Magnetics
* Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
* Oceanic Engineering
* Photonics
* Power and Energy
* Power Electronics
* Product Safety Engineering
* Professional Communication
* Reliability
* Robotics and Automation
* Signal Processing
* Social Implications of Technology
* Solid-State Circuits
* Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
* Technology Management
* Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control
* Vehicular Technology

Related|

* Certified Software Development Professional
* Computer-Aided Design Technical Committee
* District University IEEE Student Branch
* Engineering and Technology History Wiki
* Engineering for Change
* Eta Kappa Nu
* ICDSC
* IEEE Access
* IEEE Cloud Computing
* IEEE conferences
* IEEEXtreme
* IEEEmadC
* IEEE Rebooting Computing
* IEEE Xplore
* Internet Technical Committee
* IEEE Life Sciences
* List of IEEE awards
* List of IEEE milestones
* List of IEEE publications
* IEEE Registration Authority
* IEEE Smart Grid
* IEEE style
* Technical Committee on VLSI

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