The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together, published by Springer as part of the Sustainable Development Goals book series is inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to global prosperity. This new book by Mortenson Center Director Evan Thomas presents a vision for Global Engineering, and identifies that engineers should be concerned with the unequal and unjust distribution of access to basic services, such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation, and shelter. Engineers should place an emphasis on identifying the drivers, determinants, and solutions to increasing equitable access to reliable services. 

Global Engineering envisions a world where everyone has safe water, sanitation, energy, food, shelter, and infrastructure, and can live in health, dignity, and prosperity.

This book seeks to examine the role and ultimately the impact of engineers in global development. Engineers are solutions-oriented people who enjoy the opportunity to identify a product or need, and design appropriate technical solutions. However, the structural and historical barriers to global prosperity requires that Engineers focus more broadly on improving the tools and practice of poverty reduction and that we include health, economics, policy, and governance as relevant expertise with which we are conversant. Engineers must become activists and advocates, rejecting ahistorical technocratic approaches that suggest poverty can be solved without justice or equity.