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Mortenson Center
Global Engineering

The Mortenson Center engages in Global Engineering and combines education, research, and partnerships to positively impact vulnerable people and their environment by improving development tools and practice. Our vision is a world where everyone has safe water, sanitation, energy, food, shelter, and infrastructure.

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State of California Tackles Drought with IoT & Blockchain

IBM Pilots Blockchain and IoT Sensor Solution To Track Sustainable Groundwater Usage In California ,... Read more
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Bridges to Prosperity Impact Evaluation

Isolation caused by lack of transportation infrastructure affects almost every facet of life for the... Read more
Diagram of Communication Priorities

Allie Davis, Amy Javernick-Will & Sherri Cook Published in Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology

Allie Davis, Amy Javernick-Will and Sherri Cook are recently published in Environmental Science: Water Research... Read more

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Instrumentation to Reduce Drought Emergencies

Using satellite and cellular connected sensors we are presently monitoring the water supplies of over a million people in arid Kenya and Ethiopia, expanding to over five million in 2018 and linking this data to regional water service providers and national policy makers in an effort to improve water services and drought resilience.

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Infrastructure Resilience and Disaster Recovery

Despite efforts to improve community resilience to disasters, over the past 25 years the number and economic impact of natural disasters has increased each year. At the same time, little research has been done to evaluate the pre-disaster conditions that enable community recovery afterwards. 

Associate Professor Amy Javernick-Will and her students focus on this increasingly vital aspect of community development.

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Engineering Education

Assessing engineering students' understanding of social responsibility from undergraduate and graduate education into professional life.

In this NSF-funded study, quantitative and qualitative methods are used to understand how engineering and social responsibility are connected and valued by students at various stages of their college career, employees in the engineering workforce, and employers at engineering firms.

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Green Energy

Alan Mickelson’s research group's efforts in Haiti have focused on training of local youth to install and maintain solar energy systems.

The curriculum was a hands-on one that involved constructing and reconfiguring a 2 kW solar system whose parts had been supplied by Alan’s team with funding from IEEE and the Mortenson Center.

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Engineering for real change...Solutions for the real world

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