Welcome to Peace Engineering at UNM
Peace engineering strives to work toward a world where prosperity, sustainability, social equity, entrepreneurship and other areas are used to solve global challenges in new ways. We are excited at The University of New Mexico to be initiating a variety of exciting partnerships across campus and across the world.
Peace engineering is described as a pathway and a mindset that answers global challenges. The goal of peace engineering is to develop solutions to social, political, ecological, technological and healthcare problems. The discipline encompasses science, engineering, technology, social sciences, arts, health fields and more to find new ways of creating a pathway toward peace, sustainability and equity.
Our partner universities include Drexel, Purdue, Georgia Tech, University of Colorado-Boulder, Stanford and University of Southern California, with projects that benefit with the community. Our UNM EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) program will be integrated into the peace engineering curriculum, as will the WHY Lab at UNM. The lab is housed in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and provides an experiential, hands-on application of engineering concepts.
We are also partnering Sandia National Laboratories has been a strong supporter of the development of the peace engineering minor at UNM, citing the importance of peace engineering as critical to national security — in particular the sustainable management of scarce resources like water and energy, and public health.
Join us in our multidisciplinary, cross-institutional effort to develop unique and creative solutions to global challenges.
We have powerful partners in Sandia National Laboratories, as well as universities including Drexel, Purdue, Georgia Tech, University of Colorado-Boulder and University of Southern California that will bring innovative knowledge to our peace engineering efforts.
Our peace engineering collaborations will incorporate projects with our students (such as the new UNM Engineering Projects in Community Service, or EPICS, program) and a variety of hands-on applications of knowledge. Our goal is to help the world create sustainable management critical resources like water, energy, public health and human capital.
Contact us today to see how you can join us!
A graduate-level certificate program is currently in development. For additional information, contact Ramiro Jordan at rjordan@unm.edu
