Humanitarian engineering - How can we tackle energy poverty in refugee camps?

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Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, engineering/computing/STEM clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Engineering and Computing

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

This teaching resource explains the work of pervasive computing expert, Dr Elena Gaura of Coventry University, and her work on an amazing humanitarian engineering project that provided energy to refugee camps in Rwanda and Nepal.

This resource also contains an interview with Dr Gaura.

The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ to prompt students to reflect on Dr Gaura’s work and links so they can find out more about the HEED project.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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