Hunter and Stephanie Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity

Challenges Abroad and at Home

  • Millions of women across the globe spend several hours a day collecting water.1
  • More than 100 million people are homeless around the world.2 
  • 25,000 children die each day due to poverty.3 
  • A family of four generally needs to earn twice the poverty threshold to provide children with basic necessities.4 
  • More than one in 10 Americans now receives food stamps.5
  • Almost 16 million Americans pay 50% or more of their income for housing.6
  • 37% of American households headed by women with children present lived in poverty in 2007.7
  • The poverty rate for American children was 18% in 2007.7

 

The Hunter and Stephanie Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity is dedicated to using the power of engineering, collaboration and the free market to develop and implement solutions to the problems of the poor, both here and abroad. You can help.

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Hunter and Stephanie Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity
Caruth Hall
3145 Dyer Street, Box 342
Dallas, TX 75205
(214) 768-3360
EandH@lyle.smu.edu


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Our Mission
We aim to shift the foundation of poverty through action and empowerment, not charity. The Hunt Institute strives to bring together the most talented minds from fields including engineering, science, business, international development and global economics, and combine their efforts with market forces to improve the standard of living for those living in extreme poverty. We focus on access to clean water; creating affordable shelter, including design justice for the marginalized; hygiene education and promotion; access to energy; and meeting basic infrastructure needs.

The Hunt Institute for Engineering & Humanity has three long-term goals:

Educate: Prepare the engineer of the future to solve pressing humanitarian issues through skilled expertise and leadership.

Collaborate: Form strategic partnerships with business, academia, government and other organizations working in innovation and/or developing countries.

Facilitate: Serve as an aggregator and facilitator between communities needing innovative solutions and the organizations building those solutions.

Our Philosophy
As a hub for development programs, the Hunt Institute is dedicated to shaping the engineer of the future who will be devoted to solving the world’s most pressing humanitarian issues through skilled expertise and leadership. We recognize that sustainable solutions require a deep understanding of those who will be utilizing, maintaining, and replicating these new technologies. To ensure our engineers, scientists and partners have a clear understanding of the environments in which they operate, new path-breaking technical programs and field research are augmented with special programs in global economics and politics as well as regional history, law, religion and culture.

New & Newsworthy


  Dallas Morning News: Somalia Comes to SMU
Dallas Morning News reports on the problems, solutions and experiences of SMU students during their time in The Living Village
  WFAA: SMU Students live in temporary shelters in "Living Village"
WFAA coverage of the The Living Village which is meant to be an example to give students and visitors an idea of what it's like to live without all the amenities we take for granted
Sophomore Civil Engineering student Taylor blogs about "Living Village"
Read Taylor's first hand account of the living conditions and his experiences in the "Living Village"
Hunt Institute: Institute representatives observe solar powered water systems in Kenya
HabiHut, in collaboration with The Hunt Institute, will package a “turn-key” business to be sold as franchises to micro-entrepreneurs in the developing world

References

1. 2006 United Nations Human Development Report
2. Habitat for Humanity
3. UNICEF
4. National Center for Children in Poverty, (2008)
5. Global Development: Charting a New Course, Bread for the World Institute
6. Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion, The developing world is poorer than we thought, but no less successful in the fight against poverty, World Bank, (August 2008)
7. U.S. Census Bureau, (2008)