Engineers Without Borders

Project Meeting, May 30

The next project meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, May 30th at 6:00 PM in STAG 132. At the meeting, we’ll be discussing the data that the design team worked on last week for the tank design.

Accepting Applications for Travel over Winter Break 2007

We are currently accepting applications for travelers for a trip to the project site in El Salvador over Winter Break, 2007. The trip will focus on the construction of a significant portion of our water delivery system and continuing assessment of community needs. EWB-OSU will offer several skill-building workshops in the coming months to prepare selected travelers.

Anyone selected for travel must be willing and able to put in at least eight hours of volunteer work with EWB-OSU per month between the time of their selection and the time of the trip. In return, all (reasonable) expenses associated with the trip will be paid for by EWB-OSU.

Applications may be downloaded below and must be delivered to Andy Sabalowsky’s mailbox in Owen 220 by FRIDAY, JUNE 1st, FRIDAY, JUNE 8th (note the extended deadline).

Click to download the Winter 2007 Travel Application

EWB-OSU Gets Published!

A paper by several student and faculty members of EWB-OSU was recently published in Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, an e-journal concerned with new practices and developments in sustainability. Read their discussion of our El Salvador water project and the first site assessment in the paper entitled Developing a Sustainable Water-Delivery System in Rural El Salvador.

EWB-USA Partners with Travelocity

Using a customized EWB web site, www.GreenTravelPartners.com/ewb.html, anyone, including members, family, and friends, can make travel reservations, including hotel and car rentals, and EWB-USA will receive 50% of all profits from these bookings. The profits from the site will be used to offset CO2 emissions and to support our programs. This is a great way to make EWB-USA “greener”!!!

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General Meeting, June 4

Join us for our next general meeting, where Michael Campana, a professor in OSU’s department of Geosciences and director of the Institute for Water and Watersheds, will give a talk entitled “Constructing Rural Village Water Systems in Central America: Experiential Learning 101”.

The meeting will be June 4 at 5:00 in KEC 1007. As always, we’ll provide the food.

Meeting Minutes

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EWB-OSU has a New Website

Welcome to our new, improved website.

Vision Planning Meeting, 2007

The EWB-OSU Vision Planning meeting was held on May 15, 2007 to articulate our goals for the coming year.

Meeting Minutes

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