2005 News
General
- CU Boulder listed in
Colleges With a Conscience: 81 Great Schools
with Outstanding Community Involvement (Random
House)
- EDC student Jay Shah received the Franklin H. Williams Award.
More.
- EDC Founder Bernard Amadei received the
AAES' Norm
Augustine Award (More)
and and the
Service Award for
Professional Excellence from Rotary International.
- The CEAE Department at CU Boulder received
funding from the NCIIA and the Engineering
Excellence Fund to develop a new Senior Design
Course on Engineering for the Developing World in
2005-2006.
- The CEAE
Department at CU Boulder received an NSF planning grant for Department Level
Reform to explore how to integrate EDC and ESE concepts in engineering in
2004-2005.
Education
Research and Development
·
“Sustainability of the Filtrón for
Microbial Disinfection” This project is intended to evaluate
the long term performance and sustainability of the Filtrón device, which is used in several developing
countries. Efforts to understand how and when to
regenerate the filters to prolong their efficacy will be
studied.
This research is conducted by Jay Shah under the
supervision of Profs. Scott Summers and Angela
Bielefeldt.
·
“A Green Mind: A Sustainable, Smart Growth
Plan for Muramba, Rwanda,” submitted by EWB-USA on behalf of the EWB-CU Rwanda
Project. The primary focus of this proposal is the
collection of rainwater to provide safe drinking water
at relatively low cost. This project is conducted by
Evan Thomas and other
members of the EWB-CU Rwanda project under the
supervision of Prof. Bernard Amadei.
- Pablo Cornejo-Warner
worked on Filtrón research during summer 2005, and traveled
to Nicaragua to conduct some of his research
in-country in association with an EWB-CU project.
Pablo's research was funded by a CU-Boulder Summer Multicultural Access to
Research and Training (SMART) fellowship.
Outreach/Services/Projects
- EDC
students, faculty and staff
participated in a
Sustainable Technology Training For Native Peoples
Workshop on the Pine Ridge Reservation, SD from
August 8-18, 2005.
- The EWB-CU and EWB-University of Wisconsin teams
were awarded a joint
2005 Mondialogo Engineering Award for their on-going outreach work
in Rwanda.
More.
- Over 50 CU
students from the EWB-CU
chapter of EWB-USA are actively involved in projects in Rwanda,
Mali, Haiti, Nicaragua, Peru, and Bolivia.
- In May 2005, the EWB-CU
Rwanda team traveled to Muramba to install rain
water catchments.
- In July 2005, the EWB-CU Nicaragua team traveled to
the community of Champigny in Jalapa, Nicaragua as part of
their effort to develop and implement a gray water system.
- In July and August 2005, the EWB-CU San Leon,
Peru project team implemented the first phase of
a potable water system based on data collected in
spring 2005.
- The
Environmental Engineering Design (CVEN 4434/5434)
requires all students to adopt a service learning project.
Opportunities
In the News
(Press Releases)
Peace Through Empowerment (Denver Post, 11/15/05)
Engineers Put Skills to Humanitarian Use (Longmont
Times Call, 10/24/05)
Engineering's Soft Side (Denver Post, 09/30/05)
From the US to Rwanda:
Building Bridges Between Worlds (CEM Magazine, fall
2005)
Students Ready
for Rwanda: Engineers Planning Trip to Africa..
(09/27-10/03/05)
Forgiving the Time of the Running (fall 2004)
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