Media Coverage about ESW (formerly Engineers without Frontiers)
Etna Preserve Happenings
The
Finger Lakes Land Trust Land Steward, vol. 16, No. 1 Winter 2003-4
Engineers without Frontiers sends students to help abroad
The
Post-Standard Monday October 13, 2003
Cornell University graduate student Doug Mitarotonda
arrived at a Bosnian high school this summer with seven laptop computers,
including three he borrowed from a professor in Ithaca. The high school
had been rebuilt since the Bosnian civil war ended in 1995, but it lacked
up-to-date computers. And Mitarotonda faced two language barriers with
the 20 Bosnian teens who looked to him to teach them to program in Java:
Neither Mitarotonda nor the students spoke each other's language well...
Globe Trotters
The
Ithaca Times, September 17-23, 2003, pg. 11
CU's Engineers Without Frontiers brings hope, water to a needy world
Cornell
Chronicle, August 14, 2003
In the parched winter soil of Limpopo, South Africa,
spinach, melons and potatoes are waiting for the brief summer rains
to come. In September, water from the deluge will quickly be soaked
up by the soil, leaving the land dry again when winter returns. But
Shawhin Roudbari, a graduate student in Cornell's School of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, is working to help rural communities hold
on to more of this precious resource. He is spending three months this
summer designing and building rainwater storage tanks and installing
them in eight South African villages...
Engineering a Better World, One Project at a Time
ASCE
News, April 2003 Volume 28, Number 4
Cornell
Engineering, Fall 2002
A new Cornell-based organization challenges students
to apply their engineering skills to improving the quality of life in
developing communities...