Darshan Karwat
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Mail code: 6002Campus: Tempe
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I am an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and The Polytechnic School at ASU, where I run re-Engineered, an interdisciplinary group that embeds environmental protection, social justice, and peace in engineering. Current areas of work and teaching include:
- creating structures to mobilize engineers and scientists to collaborate with community groups addressing environmental, climate, and energy justice challenges
- understanding participation in just energy transitions
- infusing principles of justice into energy technology design
- reimagining the future of environmental governance
- activist engineering and environmentally-responsible engineering
- fluid/gas dynamics
- use-inspired design
- space systems
I am originally from Mumbai, India, but feel equally at home in Michigan or Washington, D.C. (and now, the Valley!). I studied aerospace engineering (specializing in gas dynamics and combustion) and sustainability ethics at the University of Michigan. I then spent three years as a AAAS Fellow in Washington, D.C., first at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the Innovation Team, where I worked on climate change resilience and low-cost air pollution sensors; and then at the U.S. Department of Energy in the Water Power Technologies Office, helping design and run the Wave Energy Prize. I also work as co-founder of the Constellation Prize.
You can read more about what we do on our group website here, and at our group blog here.
- Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering and Sustainability Ethics, University of Michigan 2012
- B.S.E. Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan 2007
From philosophy to education to practice, I am passionate about creating an engineering profession that embeds the values of peace, social justice, and ecological holism at the very heart of engineering thinking. Engineers have and will continue to be integral in the design and development of technologies that shape human relationship to the Earth. Thus, to infuse engineers with ideals of justice, with practical tools to understand the impact of their work on people and the Earth, and with the ability to work intimately with those who have different kinds of knowledge and experiences, is to change the world.
I ask three questions: Why are we engineers? For whose benefit do we work? What is the full measure of our moral and social responsibility?
You can check out the work we do in re-Engineered here and here.
Courses
2025 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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CEE 593 | Applied Project |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
2024 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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CEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
CEE 593 | Applied Project |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
2024 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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CEE 593 | Applied Project |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
2023 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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CEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 201 | Use-Inspired Design Project I |
EGR 201 | Use-Inspired Design Project I |
CEE 593 | Applied Project |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
FIS 201 | Innovation in Society |
2023 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 799 | Dissertation |
SOS 792 | Research |
CEE 593 | Applied Project |
FIS 201 | Innovation in Society |
2022 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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CEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 201 | Use-Inspired Design Project I |
EGR 201 | Use-Inspired Design Project I |
CEE 593 | Applied Project |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
2022 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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SOS 799 | Dissertation |
EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 792 | Research |
CEE 593 | Applied Project |
2021 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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CEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
EGR 201 | Use-Inspired Design Project I |
EGR 201 | Use-Inspired Design Project I |
CEE 593 | Applied Project |
SOS 792 | Research |
SOS 799 | Dissertation |
2021 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 792 | Research |
HSD 598 | Special Topics |
EGR 598 | Special Topics |
SOS 594 | Conference and Workshop |
2020 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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EGR 201 | Use-Inspired Design Project I |
EGR 201 | Use-Inspired Design Project I |
SOS 792 | Research |
2020 Spring
Course Number | Course Title |
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EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
SOS 792 | Research |
JUS 444 | Environment and Justice |
FIS 444 | Environment and Justice |
2019 Fall
Course Number | Course Title |
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EGR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
EGR 313 | Mechanical Systems Project II |
EGR 492 | Honors Directed Study |
US Environmental Protection Agency, Innovation Team, Office of Research and Development (2013-2014) US Department of Energy, Water Power Technologies Office (2014-2016)