Education Programs in Global Engineering
The Mortenson Center in Global Engineering & Resilience at the University of Colorado Boulder trains engineers to solve the hardest problems on the planet - clean water access, climate adaptation, food security, disaster resilience and sustainable infrastructure.
What is Global Engineering?Ìý
Global Engineering is the practice of applying engineering skills to improve quality of life world wide and particularily for communities facing poverty, climate stress and infrastructure gaps. It is interdisciplinary: technical design meets public health, economics, policy and community engagement
Our global engineering graduates get jobs in:
- Consulting firms like Tetra Tech, AECOM and Jacobs
- International development with the World Bank, UNICEF and Care
- Government with EPA, USGS, NASA
- Carbon Markets
- Social Enterprise





