The University of San Diego's Engineering Exchange for Social Justice (ExSJ) supports USD faculty members across the campus, along with students and external volunteers, in working collaboratively with diverse community groups, who do not normally have access to technical know-how, to co-define and co-create alternative solutions to sociotechnical problems.
Engineering Social Justice
Co-creating sociotechnical solutions
The ExSJ supports the connection between engineering and social justice. Engineering as a profession can contribute to systems of injustice, or be part of a systemic change toward social justice. However, those developing and enacting engineering projects, processes and systems are rarely educated in the complexities of the local and global social, economic and political contexts in which they are working. Given the right education and working together — across disciplines and with community grassroots organizations — engineers have the potential to provide knowledge and skills where it matters most, to co-create just and ecologically sustainable sociotechnical solutions.
ExSJ in Action
Get involved
Sharing knowledge for the benefit of the communities
The Engineering Exchange for Social Justice provides a system whereby communities are encouraged and supported to submit project ideas, which are developed and channeled through a panel of professionals and academics to create suitable projects for students in a wide variety of programs inside engineering disciplines and across campus. If you have a community project you would like to submit or if you are interested in volunteering as an engineering professional or as a student Changemaker, we invite you to reach out to us today.