[Photo/worldengineeringday.net] World Engineering Day on Wednesday aims to highlight the critical importance of engineers and engineering for sustainable development and modern life, as well as encourage future generations to tackle global issues through more holistic and ethically designed projects, a senior engineer said. In November, UNESCO adopted...
2020-03-03 The 40th General Conference of UNESCO held in Paris, France in November 2019 has adopted a resolution to formally proclaim March 4th of every year a World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development (herein shortened to ‘World Engineering Day’), celebrating and recognizing the contributions of engineers and...
Irene Serrano Gonzalez is a civil engineer and sustainability consultant in the Strategic Consultancy team at AECOM London Above: Irene presenting the Ugandan Eco-sanitation toilets project at the Global Engineering Congress in 2018 Tell us about your job. What do you do? I provide technical expertise to organisations such...
Geoffrey Morgan works for the United Nations promoting quality infrastructure for sustainable development Tell us about your job. What do you do? I work for UNOPS (United Nations Office for Project Services) which is responsible for supporting countries around the world to build better lives and countries...
By Ania Lopez, Italia National Member representative at the WFEO Executive Council A chemical engineer holds up a test tube of biofuel at a factory in Passo Fundo, Brazil. Image: REUTERS/Bruno Domingos • Women are under-represented in engineering, yet they are needed to develop...
The Pont du Gard in southern France, the Parthenon in Athens, the Great Wall of China, the Pyramids of Giza at Memphis: four sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List which are masterpieces of engineering and which still inspire awe today. Today, we consider these sites to...
The continent cannot fulfil its potential without training technicians to tackle its infrastructure shortfall. By Mustafa Shehu, WFEO Executive Vice president To diversify its economy away from oil, Nigeria needs to train more engineers When, earlier this month, the Nigerian goverment forecast ambitious growth in its mining sector...
From tackling the spread through open-source platforms to delivering food using robots, the COVID-19 outbreak has shone a light on engineering’s potential to make a difference, says Gong Ke. By Gong Ke, WFEO President BEIJING: They say that science is about knowing and engineering is about doing. But...
by Marlene Kanga Tuesday, 21 January 2020 14:15 GMT * Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. If we are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while also better anticipating future climate threats, we need to renew and reinvent,...
