ASCE Meeting: Engineers Without Borders
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| Calendar | San Luis Obispo |
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| Location | AJ Spurs, Grover Beach |
| Date | Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 11:00am - 12:00pm |
| Duration | 1 hours |
| Details | For this month’s luncheon, we are pleased to have representatives from both the San Luis Obispo Professional and Cal Poly chapters of Engineers Without Borders discuss their current projects located in Kenya, Thailand, and Nicaragua. Engineers Without Borders (EWB), a non-profit humanitarian organization supported by ASCE, partners with disadvantaged communities to improve their quality of life through implementation of environmentally and economically sustainable engineering projects. Through partnerships, international projects empower the communities by enhancing local, technical, and entrepreneurial skills. EWB SLO and Cal Poly’s current projects include the improvement of design standards for interlocking compressed earth blocks, working with a hill tribe in Mae Nahm Kuhn, Thailand to improve a failing septic system while providing energy production, designing a health clinic in Camillo Ortega, Nicaragua, and assessing the possibilities for providing clean drinking water in MIgori, Kenya. |
| Repeats? | No |