Humanitarian Engineering
Projects:
This is the first year of an NSF funded, four year program that uses community service as a linchpin to recruit and retain students in mathematics, computer science, and engineering. The program provides undergraduate and graduate students with scholarship support throughout their degree program, mentorship from senior engineering students and faculty, and assistance in mathematics, computer science, and engineering career placement after graduation. Each year of the program, the students complete a real world, multidisciplinary humanitarian engineering project, which provides experience in their field of study.
-Dr. Lauri Burke
2007-2008
Two cohorts are participating in this program during the 2007-2008 academic year. The undergraduate cohort consists of eleven freshmen; the graduate cohort has two Master's students and two PhD students. The community service project for this academic year involves remote St. Denis Secondary School in rural Uganda, Africa. The project goals are two fold: design a sustainable water facility to provide sufficient drinking water for St. Denis Secondary School, and develop an improved science, technology, engineering, and mathematics curriculum for the school that includes hands-on instruction embedded within the local context
-Dr. Lauri Burke