There are several ongoing and completed EWB-ASU projects, and here is where you can find out more about them.
Tsurakú Project| Project Lead: | Michal Ziv-El |
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| E-mail: | Michal.Ziv-El [at] asu.edu |
| Website: | http://ewb.asu.edu/tsuraku/index.htm |
The small village of Tsurakú in amazonian Ecuador, founded in 1975, consists of around forty families of the indigenous Shuar tribe with a population of approximately 250 people, over 100 of who are children. The people of Tsuraku suffer from periodic water supply shortages, insufficient sanitation, and resulting problems with water purity. Tsuraku is located on the border of the Amazon rainforest along the highway between the cities of Puyo and Macas. With the help of Katie Wallace, a Peace Corps volunteer located in Tsuraku, the village had applied to EWB for assistance with the following:
(1) Stabilizing the current water distribution system,
(2) Improving the water quality in the distribution system
(3) Improving the sanitation of the village.
During August 2007, the Arizona State University (ASU) chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) went on a two-week assessment trip to evaluate the conditions in the village of Tsuraku, Ecuador.
The team is currently designing solutions for the water and sanitation
problems investigated on the assessment trip. These solutions will be
partially implemented on a second trip on January 2008. The team is
planning to fully implement the Design and education plans during summer
2008.
Visualizing the Urban Metabolism
| Project Lead: | Joby Carlson |
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| E-mail: | joby.carlson [at] asu.edu |
| Website: | groups.google.com/group/urbanmetabolism |
Average Americans spend about 90% of their time indoors yet are generally unaware of the energy, environmental, health, and economic impacts of buildings. The objective of this project is to form a conscious link between human behaviors, engineering design and the Earth's natural resources in the minds of ASU students and the general public through interesting, fun and interactive means. This will be accomplished by monitoring, tracking and displaying the inputs and outputs of building systems in real-time using presently available sensors, data loggers, and software tools. The information will be visualized in ways that average citizens can quickly and easily relate to and understand, via widescreen monitors in buildings and a dedicated website. This project is being financed by a grant from the Fulton Engineering school.
Malawi Project
| Project Lead: | Joe Graham |
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| E-mail: | joe.w.graham [at] gmail.com |
| Website: | groups.google.com/group/ewb-asu-malawi |
There are over 12 million orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa because of the AIDS epidemic there. These children, besides suffering emotionally, also face severe nutritional, educational, and economic hardships. EWB-ASU is in the preliminary stages of forming a partnership with small orphanages to address their water, sanitation, energy, and educational needs in sustainable ways. EWB-ASU is currently seeking a motivated student leader to organize the team to make this project active. This project would likely include a collaboration with the student senior design projects for disabled Malawians which are ongoing in the Harrington Department of Bioengineering.
Senior Design ProjectsThere are many opportunities to combine a senior design class project with EWB-ASU. A team of electrical engineering seniors recently completed a design for a complete solar power system that could be used to power a building that lacks access to an electrical grid or cannot afford power. Several bioengineering students are working on designs for adaptive devices for Malawians with disabilities. Contact EWB-ASU if you're interested in performing a senior design project with real-world impact.
