
Explore how engineers use technology to improve independence and quality of life for people in social domain, with user centered design for vulnerable groups and bridging technology with social profit.
Explore human centered design, participatory design, and inclusive design to solve problems by starting with people and applying design thinking across four phases: problem definition, ideation, selection, and presentation.
Empower youth through a social work–driven stock car racing project that blends empowerment, participation, and inclusion with community collaboration and practical engineering skills.
Improve accessibility in cities through engineering design and technology. Use automated rule checking for building performance and assistive apps and robotics to boost mobility for people with limited movement.
Are you an engineer with an affinity for the social domain?
Are you convinced that technology is an important lever for more independence and a better quality of life for vulnerable groups in society?
Do you think you can make a significant contribution to social profit organisations as an engineer?
This course bridges the worlds of technology, the social profit and the profit sector.
Above all as an engineer you solve problems for ... people.
This course will help you to get into the social aspects of engineering problems and focuses on:
1. User Centred Design & Vulnerable Groups
2. Organisations in the social domain
3. Technology in the social domain