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Engineers Without Borders, With Innovation Award

This cat suffers many more borders than the CU engineers. Photo via Wikimedia.

Columbia’s Engineers Without Borders are one of three winners of the PBS Planet Forward Innovator contest. This means they’ll appear on the Planet Forward show on April 8. CU EWB came in second place overall, and had the highest number of YouTube views. You can check out their winning idea–implementing sustainable sanitation and water management in Ghana—as well as the video here. Congratulations EWB!

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24 February 2011 @ 3:00 PM · 3 comments

Altruism…It Exists!

After a crushing loss this morning, here’s a win-win scenario: free dessert for three days! Columbia University’s Engineers Without Borders is setting up on the ramps of Lerner from today through Friday, 12- 7 p.m. That’s a long time to sit at a slant… but for good reason!

This past summer, while we were wasting away in the sun, the Columbia University chapter of Engineers Without Borders worked in Obodan, Ghana to implement sustainable sanitation and improve water access. Unlike a lot of service programs out there, CU-EWB catered toward the village’s needs and actually did something really clever!

Back in 2005, CU-EWB addressed the shortage of proper sanitation facilities by building a public latrine, a Kumasi Ventilated Improved Pit (KVIP). While the original KVIP was helpful, it released strong odors and required an expensive cleaning procedure. So, the Columbia team implemented a “source-separated latrine” that composts and converts waste to biofuel and fertilizer. It’s sustainable and no longer smells! Meanwhile, they plan to overhaul the water distribution system and improve accessibility.

Sure, it’s not so glamorous— “makes for a lousy telethon,” as CJ says—but it’s necessary. And PBS agrees! The Columbia team created a video of their work and submitted it to PBS for the Earth Day special. After an initial round, PBS selected the video as a finalist nominee for its show. Cast your vote for the video here, and read more about CU-EWB’s project here. You need to register, but it’s pretty simple.

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15 February 2011 @ 5:00 PM · 13 comments

Free Dinner

Engineers Without Borders is holding a giant Roone-sized event this evening at 7:00.  Beyond Borders: Food will feature discussions with experts about the “cultural and social contexts” and the “systemic factors” affect our food.

Academic blathering aside, the event will feature an “Indian/African” dinner – no word on whether this is a hybrid or two seperate cuisines, but run on over and fill your plates.

Free tickets are at the TIC.

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22 October 2009 @ 3:22 PM · 5 comments

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