Ingeniería y desarrollo humanoTecnologías para el Desarrollo Humano (TpDH)

Resumen

Talking about the links between engineering and the paradigm of Human development involves talking about the Technologies for Human Development, which is a concept resulting from previous terms as Intermediate Technology or Appropriate Technologies. It includes relevant aspects of the theoretical framework of Human Development driven mainly by the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics, Amartya Sen (Sen, 1999). While there is no specific discipline in charge for exploring the links between the concept of Human Development and Science and Technology, there are two approaches that are closer to it: Education for Development (particularized for the case of techniques) and the so-called Science, Technology and Society (STS). Throughout the article these approaches will be discussed, finding connections with the skills developed in industrial engineering studies. So, the potential of th ese degrees in the creation of critical citizens, compromised with the current problems of our world, will be showed.