Sharing Peace Engineering with US-based Minority Students, through the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, in Peru
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Abstract
The University System of Maryland’s Louis Stokes
Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) shares the United
Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with
underrepresented minority (URM) STEM students. In July 2018,
faculty and students from three institutions within the USM
LSAMP worked with World SPEED - the Student Platform for
Engineering Education Development, to share the UN’s SDGs
during the 2018 conference of the Latin and Caribbean
Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) in Lima, Peru.
Students from the US, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, and other countries
were exposed to the SDGs in both English and Spanish through
World SPEED’s SDG-focused panel and team-based exercises.
The exercises allowed students, working in teams that mixed
countries (and languages), to develop solutions to challenges based
on the SDGs. Students discussed research in the context of the
SDGs, such as SDG 3: Better health solutions for people around
the world, SDG 4: Global quality education, SDG 5: Gender
equality, and SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy solutions that
will allow humans to generate clean, reusable power. This project
allowed URM students from the US to consider engineering in the
context of “peace,” contributing to STEM identity, retention, and
utilization of their talents for a peaceful purpose.