Darshan Karwat
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Mail code: 6002Campus: Tempe
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Hi!
I run re-Engineered, an interdisciplinary group that embeds environmental protection, social justice, peace, and human rights in engineering. Some questions I am interested in are:
- How can we build more collaborations between engineers, scientists, and communities to address environmental, climate, and energy challenges?
- How do public values affect the design of technologies like renewable energy technologies?
- What does the future of environmental governance look like?
- How can space systems be designed to have a mitigated environmental impact?
- How can engineering promote animal thriving?
- What is the moral and social responsibility of engineers?
I also work with colleagues to run 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 environmental protection, social justice, peace, and human rights at the heart of engineering. 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.
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
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CEE 593 | Applied Project |
| SOS 792 | Research |
| SOS 799 | Dissertation |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| 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 |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CEE 593 | Applied Project |
| SOS 792 | Research |
| SOS 799 | Dissertation |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CEE 590 | Reading and Conference |
| CEE 593 | Applied Project |
| SOS 792 | Research |
| SOS 799 | Dissertation |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| CEE 593 | Applied Project |
| SOS 792 | Research |
| SOS 799 | Dissertation |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| SOS 799 | Dissertation |
| SOS 792 | Research |
| CEE 593 | Applied Project |
| FIS 201 | Innovation in Society |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| SOS 799 | Dissertation |
| EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
| SOS 792 | Research |
| CEE 593 | Applied Project |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| EGR 493 | Honors Thesis |
| SOS 792 | Research |
| HSD 598 | Special Topics |
| EGR 598 | Special Topics |
| SOS 594 | Conference and Workshop |
US Environmental Protection Agency, Innovation Team, Office of Research and Development (2013-2014) US Department of Energy, Water Power Technologies Office (2014-2016)