Impact.Engineered Event in New York Highlights Excellence in Social Innovation


ASME and Engineering for Change (E4C) recently held the second annual Impact.Engineered conference, a daylong event that spotlights the efforts of engineers and entrepreneurs who are working to bring about positive social change in underserved communities throughout the world. More than 140 engineers, engineering students, scientists and makers attended this year’s event, which was held Oct. 11 at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn, N.Y. ... The forum also included several concurrent workshops on subjects such as disrupting engineering education, intellectual property for technology start-ups, and benchmarking technology for social innovation; a tour of NYU Tandon’s MakerSpace student workspace lab…

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