"Dr. Juan Lucena leads Humanitarian Engineering (HE) at Colorado School of Mines. The program brings together engineering and social science professors to transform the ways engineers are taught to think, define and solve problems with communities. ...
'We don't presume that we know more than countries we want to serve,' said Lucena. That intellectual humility sets apart the Mines program from others that drop 'solutions' on communities without an appreciation of context or attention to power differences among stakeholders."