Engineers Without Borders - Northeastern University Chapter
EWB USA-NEU aids communities in
developing countries by using engineering solutions to address
basic human needs, such as the need for potable water -
while supplying its student members with educational,
transformative experiences. --Compiled by Davis Parker, Pansak Ong, Nick
Moretto, photos used with permission from http://ewbneu.smugmug.com/ (16 photos total)
PLANNING: In the first stage of the process, EWB-NEU volunteers split into groups to discuss different engineering challenges that have to be considered and documented in the first Honduras project proposal to the national board of EWB.
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PLANNING: EWB-NEU leader and NEU Middler Alex Bachman gets the attention of groups of students working on the first Honduras project proposal.
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FUNDRAISING: Each year, EWB-NEU hosts a habitat for humanity project to raise funds for their projects abroad, while also helping those in need locally.
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FUNDRAISING: Each year, EWB-NEU organizes the "Jerry-Can Challenge," encouraging students and faculty to carry
one or more 50-pound containers of water in a circuit around campus, to demonstrate the challenge villagers in Honduras and Uganda
face to retrieve clean drinking water every day, and to raise donations and pledges towards their projects abroad. Here the team behind the 2013 Jerry-Can Challenge poses behind their station.
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FUNDRAISING: A faculty member struggles with a jerry can.
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PLANNING: A team meeting among Uganda project managers wraps up final details in safety and technique before a planned training exercise in the suburbs of Boston.
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TRAINING: Northeastern Students practice examining water samples in preparation for installing a water system in Uganda.
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TRAINING: EWB-NEU Students learn how to use combination reflected laser and sonar measurements to survey land.
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IMPLEMENTATION: An EWB-NEU uses a laser measurement system to survey land in-country in Uganda.
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IMPLEMENTATION: Before work can begin on the Uganda water distribution system, plans must be confirmed and measurements made. Here, EWB-NEU members work with a Ugandan team member to make sure that there are no miscommunications.
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IMPLEMENTATION: Ugandan community members work alongside NEU students to install the water distribution system for their village.
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IMPLEMENTATION: Ugandan children work and play with the NEU students to dig a trench.
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IMPLEMENTATION: Ugandan children marvel at the camera while an NEU alum operates heavy machinery to complete a road crossing for a water distribution pipe.
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IMPLEMENTATION: Ugandan children observe the digging of a hole for the main water tank.
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