Engineers Without Borders Continues their Humanitarian Mission
December 16, 2020 by Jeff Martin
Founded in 2007, Drexel’s chapter of Engineers without Borders ‘(EWB) mission is to build a better world through engineering. It aims to empower communities to meet basic human needs and equip leaders to solve the world’s most pressing challenges. The Drexel students are taking on two international water supply projects from the national EWB parent organization – one in Ecuador and another in El Salvador.
Chapter President Jillian Saunders and Vice President Joshua McGuckin took a break in their studies to discuss the student organization and its mission.
What are Engineers without Borders’ primary goals?
Rhodes Scholar blends bioengineering and sociology
Nkaziewoh Nchinda-Pungong wants to make trailblazing treatments accessible for the underserved
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When Nkaziewoh Nchinda-Pungong was in middle school, he watched a TED talk during which a surgeon 3D-printed a kidney on stage. Spellbound, he decided then and there to become a bioengineer.
A decade later, Nchinda-Pungong is well on his way. A biomedical engineering concentrator at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a 2021 Rhodes Scholar, he is poised to graduate in the spring and fulfill that long-held ambition.
“Biology and chemistry are interesting in themselves, and it is fascinating to learn how the human body works. But with bioengineering, you are actually able to change it,” he said. “You may hear about heart disease and think about it as an abstract problem. Bioengineering turns that into something very specific, like an engineered heart valve, that c
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Community members move rocks to build the center pier of the bridge across the Rio Montagua. Image Credit: Mike Paddock
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Passion, the desire to help others, and skill sharing define Michigan Tech’s Engineers Without Borders student chapter.
Community is one of the Michigan Tech values, nestled nicely with accountability and tenacity, and many an MTU grad hold those values as guiding principles in their lives. But what does it look like to put those values into action? That’s the subject of alumnus Mike Paddock’s 2020 book,
Bridging Barriers: How a Community Changed Its Future with Help From Engineers Without
Filed in Features on December 10, 2020
Recently, the Rhodes Trust announced the 32 American winners of Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at Oxford University in England. Rhodes Scholarships provide all expenses for two or three years of study at the University of Oxford in England and may allow funding in some instances for four years. Being named a Rhodes Scholar is considered among the highest honors that can be won by a U.S. college student.
The scholarships were created in 1902 by the will of Cecil Rhodes, an industrialist who made a vast fortune in colonial Africa. According to the will of Rhodes, applicants must have “high academic achievement, integrity of character, a spirit of unselfishness, respect for others, potential for leadership, and physical vigor.”