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Developing professional competencies for humanitarian engineers

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posted on 2016-04-19, 11:36 authored by Brian Reed, Emily Fereday
One of the roles of engineering institutions is the registration and regulation of engineering professionals, assessing their competence in both technical and management areas. A similar approach is being promoted for professional humanitarian engineers, identifying core competencies relevant to emergency relief work. This would improve standards in the workforce, allow training and experience to be independently evaluated, and facilitate the careers of people working in a very mobile sector. Using the experiences of RedR UK in recruiting and training humanitarian engineers, this paper explores the skills, knowledge and other attributes that distinguish an enthusiastic but ill-informed and inexperienced person from somebody with the expertise to work efficiently, effectively and ethically in a challenging humanitarian context.

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering

Volume

169

Issue

5

Pages

49 - 56

Citation

REED, B. and FEREDAY, E., 2016. Developing professional competencies for humanitarian engineers. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers: Civil Engineering, 169 (5), pp.49-56.

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© ICE

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2016

ISSN

0965-089X

eISSN

1751-7672

Language

  • en

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