Engineers Without Borders urges industry reflection

In an open letter, the organisation praised recent updates made to the International Engineering Alliance’s Benchmark for Graduate Attributes and Professional Competencies. Those changes include awareness of diversity and inclusion as well as an acknowledgement of UN Sustainable Development Goals. However, Engineers Without Borders believes a more fundamental shift in the engineering mindset is required, one which looks more deeply at the role engineering plays in creating – as well as solving – problems.

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“In the revision, engineering continues to be promoted as a process uninfluenced by societal values that leads to one correct solution,” the letter states, “when in fact it is a complex process embedded in society that necessarily involves navigating ethical issues and value tensions, making judgements with uncertain and ambiguous information, and adapting to context.