Developing island economies, such as French Polynesia, are heavily reliant on
imported goods. Shipping materials around the world is very energy intensive and contributes to global environmental pollution. A system for the local manufacturing of sustainable building materials offers…

In this paper we present results from a service learning project carried out by
four Master of Engineering students in the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell University during the 2003-2004 academic year, on behalf of the…

The use of experiential learning as a pedagogical mechanism to facilitate the
learning of skills taught in the classroom has become common in college curricula. Service learning and community engagement models are frequently used to combine academic skills with “real-world”…

The end users of biogas systems in most cases are farmers whose technical
knowledge of the systems is limited. It is therefore important that material be availed to them which can assist them in making the decision whether to proceed…

Increasing energy demands and diminishing fuel supplies have left nations
desirous of avenues to minimize their reliance on traditional energy sources and a need to infuse supplementary technologies. Biogas technology is one such trajectory that can contribute to the…

For years, some African universities followed the British education system, but this is gradually changing. For example in Ghana, the three terms to the year approach has been changed to the two semester approach. Also, local conditions and the service…

Service and design provide mechanisms to introduce students to successive stages of engineering education.  These activities positively influence outreach to K-12 students, recruiting of women and underrepresented minorities to engineering, retention of undergraduate engineering students, and encouragement and funding for…

A comprehensive student-centered learning environment was created in a funded course sequence on disaster-mitigating design and practice at the UNIVERSITY NAME GOES HERE. It explored solutions for mitigating earthquake damages in developing regions, which suffer disproportionally high casualties. Undergraduate students…

We established a manual well-drilling pilot project based on the Water for All International drilling method in a small rural community in the Dominican Republic. Water testing for determining the level of biological and chemical contaminants was used to better…

The failure of a pane of glass from a solar box cooker made and used in Sabana Grande, Nicaragua, was analyzed to determine the cause of failure and to recommend possible solutions. Background research into solar box cookers, the environment…