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Darshan Karwat

Associate Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society

I am an an associate professor with a joint appointment in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society and The Polytechnic School at ASU. My background is in aerospace engineering and sustainability ethics.

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Above: (From left to right) Darshan Karwat, assistant professor in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering and the School for the Future of Innovation in Society; Madison Macias, urban and environmental planning master’s student in ASU’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning; Eddie Schmitt, post-doctoral fellow in SFIS; Jorge Morales Guerrero and Mokshda Kaul, sustainable energy doctoral students in ASU’s School of Sustainability; and Eric Stribling, innovation in global development doctoral student in SFIS. Not pictured: David Oonk, post-doctoral fellow in SFIS. Photographer: Erika Gronek/ASU

Darshan Karwat merged his engineering background with his concerns for social and environmental justice which led to the development of his own research niche.

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The Lemelson Foundation selected ASU to deliver new engineering curriculum dedicated to teaching environmental and socially conscious engineering practices.

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Two professors from the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering attend the National Academy of Engineering’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium.