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Engineers Without Borders USA is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to sustainable development through engineering assistance and training internationally responsible engineering students. Professionals, undergraduates and graduates from all disciplines are welcome at our meetings. Come learn more about how you can expand your education outside the classroom and make a difference in the world. Watch below for announcements about upcoming meetings, activities, and general updates.
Learn to perform site surveying and pipe path layout using builder’s levels, hand levels, and Abney levels.  Surveying Methods and Equipment Workshop Date: Saturday, March 5 Sponsor: American Contracting and Environmental Services, Inc. Our chapter meting for February is next Tuesday at JHU in Baltimore. Following are the details. We don’t have any provision for conferencing the meeting through a call. Where: Ames Hall, Room 233, JHU Homewood campus, Baltimore Agenda: Directions to the campus are available at http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/campuses/homewood_campus/ Our January chapter meeting is on January 10th. We have been looking forward to this one as this will be the first meeting since our assessment team returned from Argentina. They have a lot to share with us! Following are the details for the meeting: Time: 7 pm to 9pm Hoping to see you there! Our 5-member assessment team recently returned from our first assessment trip to El Toro, Argentina – an exciting milestone! We do know that the community has significant challenges and we are focusing on projects that will lead to long term benefits for the community. We are hoping that our next travel will be an implementation trip this upcoming Spring/Summer. We are excited not only for the near term prospects for what this project will do for this community, but for the enthusiasm it brings to our memberships as a whole. In order to raise funds for the project, we have an ongoing year-end fundraiser – “Building a Better World, One Donation at a Time”, which will provide funds to move forward with this community! Our goal is to raise $12,000 total and the first $3,300 will be matched from Greenehorne & O’Mara. So far we have raised a total of $4,200. For more details about our project, the donation page is http://fundraising.chesapeakeewb.org/. 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 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 |
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