Engineers Without Borders

General Meeting, May 7, 2008

This term’s third general meeting is scheduled for 7:00 pm in room 1003 of the Kelley Engineering Center and will feature a talk by Lisa Farmen, president of Crystal Clear Technologies, a small start-up company based in Portland. She has been working to develop a low-cost water purifier to remove both heavy metal and biological contaminants from drinking water. Her research has applications for the third world and areas of the United States that have clean water issues. Lisa will present her research, its application, and a prototype of a human powered pump that will remove water contaminants. For more information on the company, see the following website: http://www.simplyclearwater.com/

Election results and pizza as well!

Organic Growers Project Presentation

The Organic Growers project, otherwise known as the El Salvador Pilot Project, is drawing close to implementation. For those of you interested in learning more about the Organic Growers project or discovering what the El Salvador project will look like, a presentation outlining the implementation of the project is now available in Power Point format here. Questions on the Organic Growers project may be sent to Nick Hogle.

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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