Engineers Without Borders
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Graduate |
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All Science and Engineering Community-based Service Learning Design Engineering Ethics International Engineering Education |
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Associate Editor's Choice |
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Teaching - Laboratory/Experiment/Field Activity |
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| Description: | "The mission of Engineers Without BordersTM - USA (EWB-USA) is to partner with disadvantaged communities to improve their quality of life through implementation of environmentally and economically sustainable engineering projects, while developing internationally responsible engineering student." Their outward vision is "of a world where all people have access to adequate sanitation, safe drinking water, and the resources to meet their other self-identified engineering and economic development needs. EWB-USA's initial inward vision is as a project coordination, funding, supervision and documentation organization that links university engineering schools with project opportunities, primarily in the developing world. In the future EWB anticipates both professional and institutional partners and the ability to link this cadre of human capacity into the broad range of development programs. The objective of all these activities is not only to contribute to new and ongoing development projects in an effective way, but to expand the dimensions of experience for emerging and practicing engineers. It is our vision that this is a primary path to achieving a more sustainable world, without suffering the consequences of engineering projects that are socially, culturally, or economically inappropriate. Engineers have a central role in building a sustainable future; in fact, they have an obligation to provide leadership in this direction." Keywords: service learning, community service, engineering |
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(c) Design a system, component, or process (f) Understand professional and ethical responsibility |
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Comprehensive resource for initiating and refreshing service learning courses with engineering students "Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA) is a non-profit organization established in 2000 to help developing areas worldwide with their engineering needs, while involving and training a new kind of internationally responsible engineering student. EWB:::::::::::::::::::::::::::-USA projects involve the design and construction of water, waste-water, sanitation, energy, and shelter systems. These projects are initiated by, and completed with, contributions from the host community, which is trained to operate the systems without external assistance. In this way, EWB-USA ensures that its projects are appropriate and self-sustaining. The projects are conducted by groups of students under the supervision of faculty and professional engineers from partnering engineering firms. By involving students in every step of the EWB:??USA process, the program maximizes their learning and awareness of the social, economic, environmental, political, ethical, and cultural impacts of engineering projects. During academic year 2001-2002, about 32 students actively participated in international engineering projects sponsored and managed by EWB-USA. In 2003, more than 50 students from various US schools were involved in EWB-USA projects in Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Thailand, Haiti, Belize, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, and Peru." |
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Easy |
| Interactivity Level: |
Low |
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| Publication Date: | March 2005 |
| Platform/Format: |
WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.ewb-usa.org/ |
| Copyright and Use Restrictions: |
Most of these resources are free for nonprofit educational purposes. |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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