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A recent comprehensive international survey of engineering by UNESCO confirms the massive contribution made by engineers to socio-economic development around the world:
The critical roles of engineering in addressing the large-scale pressing challenges facing our societies worldwide are widely recognized. Such large-scale challenges include access to affordable health care; tackling the coupled issues of energy, transportation and climate change; providing more equitable access to information for our populations; clean drinking water; natural and man-made disaster mitigation, environmental protection and natural resource management, among numerous others. As such, mobilizing the engineering community to become more effective in delivering real products and services of benefit to society, especially in the developing world, is a vitally important international responsibility.
Engineers are useful people — they make things work!1
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Dixon, M. (2016). Migration of Engineers and the Gender Dimension. In: Triandafyllidou, A., Isaakyan, I. (eds) High-Skill Migration and Recession. Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137467119_6
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