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The students at the University of Delaware are seeking a professional mentor for their project in Guatemala. Please see the email included below for more details. If you would like to help, contact Dhara Amin at ewb.udel@gmail.com.
Email from Dhara:
I am the project manager of the Guatemala Bridge Project at the University of Delaware. We started our project in 2008 in the village of San Jose Petacalapa. The community was having trouble getting to their crops during the rainy season because the river that divides their village would overflow. So our chapter, agreed with the community to build a bridge over that river to help increase crop yields for the community. Currently, we have a bridge design. It is a concrete t-beam bridge: one lane, and 60″ span. We need professional help for the implementation of the bridge. We need help in country to build this bridge efficiently. We would ideally want professional engineers experienced with bridges, construction, and even Spanish. But we know this is difficult so even any professional mentor with experience will help a lot.
Our current Professional Mentor is moving to Columbia so he will not be apart of the project anymore. Also, when we approached another EWB chapter in Wisconsin that did a bridge with a 60″ span in Guatemala, they said that they had help of a professional chapter. I know that you maybe occupied with other projects from other schools, but if you could offer any help with professional mentors that would be great. Also their expenses would be covered when going and we plan on implementing in January.
Thank you for your time and please email me with any questions,
Dhara Amin
The University of MD, College Park Chapter of EWB-USA Brazil Project Team is in need of a professional mentor (or mentors!) to assist with the design and implementation of a potable water system to supply a school of approximately 110 students on Ilha das Peças, Brazil. The project is currently in the design phase and the team is hoping to travel with a professional mentor in summer of this year for the first stage of project implementation.
A detailed project description can be found here:
http://www.ewb.umd.edu/projects/brazil-2010 .
A mentor with a background in potable water treatment and conveyance would be very helpful; PE license is a plus but not mandatory. (If you are unable to travel, the team would still be very glad to have local design assistance.) If you are interested in helping out or would like to learn more, please email Project Leader Alex Ferrufino at ferru.ale@gmail.com and Chapter Advisor Dr. David Lovell at lovell@umd.edu.
Please see below for more information regarding the UMD project need in Peru. If you can help or know of another professional who can, please contact them. Further details on the project can be found at http://www.eng.umd.edu/ewb/projects.html:
The Peru potable water project with the University of Maryland chapter of Engineers Without Borders is currently in need of a professional engineer with experience in water quality and disinfection. The project is located in a traditional farming village outside of Cusco, Peru and has been aimed at providing clean drinking water to the village since the project’s first assessment trip during the summer of 2008. An implementation trip in June of 2009 installed chlorine tablet feeders, but established that chlorine tablets were unavailable in Peru. Over the past year, the project has been testing
hand-pressed chlorine tablets that were made using a 6 ton bottle jack with a tablet mold, but without binding agents the tablets disintegrated and turned to slush with very inconsistent dosing patterns.
Currently, the project team is looking into alternative disinfection methods such as liquid chlorine drip and ultraviolet disinfection, but lacks anybody with real experience in this field. The project would like to implement this solution over the summer of 2011 in one of the five water districts located in the town and would also like to find an engineer with the time and willingness to travel on the implementation team. If any professional engineers are interested in helping out, the Peru project would be quite grateful.
Respectfully,
Stephen Robinson
Peru Potable Water Project Leader
Bioengineering 2012
E-mail: nosnibor AT umd.edu
Please see below for more information regarding the JHU project need in Ecuador. If you can help or know of another professional who can, please contact them. Further details on the project can be found at http://www.ewb.jhu.edu/projects/:
We are in need a professional partner (PP) with a PE who is knowledgeable about earthquake-resistant structures and might be able to both guide our student team in their design and also serve as their PP in-country. This project consists of designing and building a daycare/community center in a small village near Quito. The design and construction issues are complicated because the area is susceptible to strong earthquakes. In fact, the village was severely affected by one some fifteen years ago. (And, we wouldn’t at all object to a PP who spoke Spanish.)
What we’d like to have is a PP who could meet with the students on a regular basis–sometimes in-person, sometimes via Skype or conference call. The students are very dedicated and energetic, but they need direction. If there is anyone who might be able to contribute, please let us know. We can offer eager students, friendly Ecuadorian people, snow-capped peaks, and perfect weather.
If interested, please contact Peter Yang (pyang11 AT jhu.edu) or Fabil Palacio (fpalacio AT jhu.edu).
Students at Johns Hopkins University are working to help the communities in Ecuador and Guatemala. They are seeking professional assistance with the projects.
The students are helping the locals in Ecuador to build an earthquake resistant community center as well as educate the locals about the same. They are looking for a Structural Engineer with seismic design experience to assist with the design of the community center.
In Guatemala, the students are working on designing a water distribution system to improve the life of a local community. The project involves design of reinforced concrete structures, hydraulics and solar power. The students are planning to travel for assessment trip in early 2011 and implementation trip in summer of 2011. They require professional mentor to travel with them. Attached is a presentation on the project that JHU presented at EWB-CPC last chapter meeting. The chapter is in immediate need for a professional mentor for Guatemala project to accomplish their travel plans.
For further information on the student projects, please visit http://www.ewb.jhu.edu/projects/. You can also contact secretary@chesapeakeewb.org, and we will get you in touch with JHU. Professionals are encouraged to forward the information to their friends and colleagues.
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