“Building a more sustainable world will need more women engineers.”

_{-Ania Lopez, World Economic Forum, 2020}

Women Imagine the Future Fund

You are invited to this Idea Forum

Panel discussion to celebrate and launch a new “Women Imagine the Future Scholarship Fund” benefiting women of the global south

Over the course of human history, engineering has been at the heart of advances in agriculture, manufacturing, medicine, transportation, and energy production, among other sectors. However, technological progress has come at a cost to the Earth’s natural systems, in addition to exacerbating human inequities and injustices. Such injustices have disproportionately impacted Indigenous women, women of color, and women from the Global South. If we are to successfully address these issues we need to move well beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and work together to co-create solutions.

Women, particularly women from the Global South, can drive this change. The Shiley Marcos School of Engineering (SMSE) at the University of San Diego is launching a new and groundbreaking transdisciplinary online program this Fall entitled Masters Science in Engineering for Sustainability and Health (or MESH).

The Women Imagine the Future Fund will enable women of diverse backgrounds to join MESH.

March 31st

8:00 – 9:00 am (PST)

Panelists Include

Diverse industry experts:

Dr. Necla Tshirgi.
Institute for Peace and Justice, USD
Dr. Randika Jayasingle and Dr. Meththika Vithanage.
University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
Glevys Rondon.
Founder Latin American Mine Monitoring Program (lammp.org)
Dr. Caroline Baillie and Dr. Paul Kadetz.
Directors MESH, Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, USD and Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, UK

Dr. Minoo Gupta.
Citrix/Foundation for Excellence, India
Dr. Sunitra Rajagopalan.
Bioastra Tech, Canada
Lauren Smith.
Society Women Engineers, USD
Silvia Mah.
Accelerator, San Diego
Dr. Susan Abookire.
Hardvard Medical School
Dr. Maria Caralina Ramirez Cajiao.
UniAndes, Colombia

Updates

USD would like to thank Paragon Institute of Innovation. For being the first donor of a full-ride scholarship for this fund. Thanks to their generous donation one qualified woman from the global south will be able to take MESH and bring new solutions to their community.

Paragon Institute of Innovation aims to create greater sustainability, reduction of global poverty, and improved quality of life through innovative economic Research & Development that drives better policies and practices by the world’s top decision makers.

About Master of Science in Engineering for sustainability and health

Learn to think through the lens of other disciplines, cultures, and practices to develop the capabilities to co-create solutions to our greatest global challenges.

The world’s problems do not stop at disciplinary boundaries. Disease, poverty, inequity and social injustice, humanitarian crises, and climate change are just a few of the interlinked global crises that are challenging us to take a more holistic view of the health of our planet and our future