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Rhodes Scholars   Josh Carter won a 2017 Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. Carter is interested in developing smart prosthetics, and to do so, has completed two distinct degrees in mechanical Engineering and in microbiology. The Rhodes Scholarships are the oldest and most celebrated international fellowship awards in the world. Each year 32 young students from the United States are selected as Rhodes Scholars, through a decentralized process repr...

UoN Graduate Uses School Project to Transform Village [PHOTOS ] The dam along River Kathaani in Machakos county Twitter Just after completing his Civil Engineering degree at the University of Nairobi in 2015, Festus Kavita Ndolo got a challenge from his supervisor - to implement the recommendations of his project. Ndolo embarked on a long journey of making his village in Misuuni, Machakos county, water-secure and prove to his lecturer Dr. Simeon Dulo that his school project was practical. Speaking to Kenyans.co.ke, the young engineer explained that the project was a feasibility study fo...

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...

Rhodes Scholar blends bioengineering and sociology Nkaziewoh Nchinda-Pungong wants to make trailblazing treatments accessible for the underserved FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedIn 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...

Share this story: Community members move rocks to build the center pier of the bridge across the Rio Montagua. Image Credit: Mike Paddock × 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 int...