All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s

Bringing it down from the ivory tower: Translating Engineering-for-Community-Development (ECD) graduate student research into community engagement and undergraduate student learning

“…Specific to Engineering for Community Development (ECD), our students learn how these practices, and related assumptions about expertise, appropriateness of technology, communities, development, etc., have a long and problematic history [9]- [11]. For example, there is a long history of community development practices in the US that since the mid-20 th century has involved physical and social scientists, engineers, and plenty of career bureaucrats that first positioned community development as an antidote to communist expansion in Latin America and Southeast Asia during the Cold War [12]- [14] and, more recently, as an expansion of neoliberal ideas and practices like the creation of individual entrepreneurs to join the networks of global capitalism [15]. In parallel to this history of community development, there is a history of large state-planned international development where engineers have played significant roles and have come to engage communities in ways that have been detrimental to the latter, particularly by viewing them as deficient and lacking, always in need of development and modernization from the Global North [16]- [18].…”