The Humanitarian Engineering Community of Practice (HECoP) will nurture the growth and positive impact of Humanitarian Engineering by exploring, updating, and sharing the concepts, skills and practices that are generally accepted and known within the field.
About This Community
The Humanitarian Engineering Community of Practice (HECoP) is within the College of Leadership and Management (CLM), supported and facilitated by Engineers Australia (EA). EA is an institution with over 100,000 members with the mission to "advance the science and practice of engineering for the benefit of the community".
Our intent
Our intent is to “Foster the application of professional engineering to the leadership, management, design and delivery of humanitarian and development undertakings”.
While all engineering should seek to promote human welfare, Humanitarian Engineering specifically is understood to be the intentional application of an engineering discipline across the breadth of contexts and locations, from disaster response to community and technology development, both internationally and domestically (Smith et al 2019).
Humanitarian Engineering specifically engages disadvantaged, marginalised or vulnerable communities by actively addressing and prioritising focused engineering practice in those communities. It mobilises the engineering skills of insight, perspective, focus and judgement which are particularly relevant to humanitarian and development practice.
The Body of Knowledge (BOK) will incorporate links to existing bodies of knowledge and resources for Humanitarian Engineering and related fields and professions, as well as a collection of case studies, practice notes and papers/articles addressing current issues in this domain. These will be complemented by webinars to explore topics of interest and encourage discussion and knowledge sharing through our discussion forums.
How you can get involved
The HECoP welcomes input and involvement from the broader community of practitioners. Ways that you can help drive the success and value of HECoP are:
- Become a member. Membership is free to all interested professionals and members of the public.
- Volunteer to host a webinar or podcast by emailing the HECoP Coordinator with a brief biography and synopsis of your presentation.
- Provide input via the discussion forums.
- Email relevant links via our Contact Us form to upload for publications, journals, news, events, conferences, associations, research, videos etc.