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  1. Humanitarian Engineering: Fundamentals, Exercises, and Application

  2. Accessibility Information

  3. Foreword

    Professor Saurabh Sinha

  4. About the Editor

  5. Contributors

    Dr Bryann Avendaño-Uribe; Dr Ricardo Bello-Mendoza; Dr Fabio Silveira; Dr Andrés Valencia; Dr Nick Brown; Dr Russell Taylor; Professor Saurabh Sinha; Professor Juan Lucena; Dr Daniel Sweeney; Tamara Clarke; and Namwaya Emilly

  6. Introduction

  7. Why this book?

  8. Who is this book for?

  9. Acknowledgements

  10. He Mihi

  11. PART I. Fundamentals: Participatory Approach in Humanitarian Engineering
    1. Chapter 1. Humanitarian Engineering behaviour and mindset: A socio-technical systems thinking approach

      Dr Nick Brown and Dr Bryann Avendaño-Uribe

    2. Chapter 2. Community-Driven Solutions: Participatory Approaches to Engineering

      Dr Bryann Avendaño-Uribe

  12. PART II. The Practice: Exercises in Humanitarian Engineering
    1. Chapter 3. Engineering for Dignity: Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Field Exercise

      Dr Bryann Avendaño-Uribe and Dr Ricardo Bello-Mendoza

    2. Chapter 4. Emergency Simulation: Humanitarian Engineering Field Exercise

      Dr Bryann Avendaño-Uribe and Dr Fabio Silveira

  13. Part III. Applications: Engineering in Developing Communities
    1. Chapter 5. Case Study on Risk: Fires in Informal Settlements

      Dr Andrés Valencia and Dr Bryann Avendaño-Uribe

    2. Chapter 6. Case Study on Cultural Awareness: Lessons from Humanitarian Innovation

      Dr Bryann Avendaño-Uribe and Dr Russell Taylor

  14. Part IV. Letters to a Humanitarian Engineering Student
    1. Letter from a Humanitarian Engineering Scholar

      Professor Juan Lucena

    2. Letter from a former Humanitarian Engineering Student

      Tamara Clarke

    3. Letter from a Humanitarian Engineering entrepreneur

      Dr Daniel Sweeney

    4. Letter from a Humanitarian Engineering Practitioner

      Namwaya Emilly

  15. Appendices

  16. Glossary

  17. Review Statement

  18. Attribution

  19. Versioning History

  20. Back Cover

Humanitarian Engineering: Fundamentals, Exercises, and Applications

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Humanitarian Engineering: Fundamentals, Exercises, and Applications Copyright © 2026 by Dr Bryann Avendaño-Uribe is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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