Service Learning Projects Take CU Students to Three Continents This Summer
CU engineering students are traveling to Asia, Africa, and South America this summer to conduct service learning projects that assist developing communities on three continents in meeting their basic needs. The Engineering for Developing Communities (EDC) Program at CU-Boulder is helping to support the following projects:
 l Namsaling, Nepal – Professor Bernard Amadei and nine CU engineering students joined students and professional engineers from EWB-Nepal on a trip to far eastern Nepal in May and June. The group of 21 people is installing 10 pit latrines and four spring catchment systems on what is planned to be its first annual visit to serve more than 50 villages in the area that need help
 l Yanamono, Peru – A new EDC project involving ITP student Marco Kuhlmann will result in installation of a telecommunications tower and network in June to serve a medical clinic on the Amazon River run by an American doctor. The network also will support other educational exchanges aimed at improving community knowledge of public health and other important topics in northeastern Peru.
 l Paposo, Chile – CU students Wesley Ashwood and Danielle Griego will travel to Paposo, a small desert town on the northern coast of Chile, in late June to research fog harvesting with support from a UROP grant. The project is part of a new multi-university collaboration in Chile assisted by EDC and CU Professor Keith Molenaar, who has been on a Fulbright assignment in Santiago for the last year.
 l San León, Peru – The EWB-CU chapter has been working with this small town in northern Peru since 2005 to provide a source of potable water through the digging of a deep well and installation of hand and solar-powered pumps. Team members will travel to San León in mid-July to install the solar panels, thus completing their mission to bring a clean, reliable source of water to about 100 families.
 l Mugonero, Rwanda – The EWB-CU chapter plans to install cook stoves and rainwater catchments at the Mugonero Orphanage in July and August, as part of a project with communities in western Rwanda that has been ongoing since 2004. The EWB-Johnson Space Center chapter will join in the CU trip to install a second “Bring Your Own Water Treatment System” to serve the orphanage.

RocketSat II Launch A Success
CU students Riley Pack, David Ferguson, Jason Farmer, Lucas Greve, Colin Apke, Phil Holtzman, and Nick Bradley traveled to the New Mexico Spaceport with Colorado Space Grant Program Director Chris Koehler and his son Braeden for the April 28 launch of their RocketSat II payload.

The UP Aerospace rocket, a 6-meter tall, single-stage, solid-fuel booster, successfully delivered the COSGC payload on a suborbital trajectory after its first launch attempt suffered a mishap last September. The RocketSat II payload, which was designed to measure cosmic rays and microwave radiation, along with a GPS experiment from CU Professor Dennis Akos, were recovered on May 18.  Although the RocketSat II payload suffered significant structural damage at landing due to a incident with the rocket during descent, students were able to recover nearly all their data including video footage.  This video footage is still be reviewed by White Sands Missile Range personal for release to the general public.
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Engineering Outreach Engages High Schoolers in Soap Making
The Integrated Teaching and Learning Program in partnership with the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering offered an 11-week engineering elective for ninth and tenth graders at the Denver School of Science and Technology this spring. The topic of soap making was explored in a hands-on way, and 20 diverse students engaged in product development and entrepreneurship by creating original soap products and following the steps to bring them to market. Co-taught by PhD students Andrea Loh and Brent Rice, this elective was the most popular choice at the school and culminated in a set of mini commercials and a mock sale of the soaps for the rest of the student body.
 

'Suit Yourself" Accepts Donations
You can help our college students dress smart for their first interviews by donating your gently worn business attire to “Suit Yourself,” a program sponsored by Career Services, the Multicultural Engineering Program, and the Multicultural Business Student Association at CU-Boulder. The third annual event will take place before the Multicultural and All-Campus Career Fairs on the Boulder campus Oct. 8 and 9.

Donations of interview-appropriate attire will be accepted now through Sept. 17 in Career Services (Willard Hall 133)or by contacting Ann Herrmann (303-492-8020 or Ann.Herrmann@colorado.edu) to arrange for a pick-up. Donations are tax-deductible.

Your suits will then be displayed and sold to students at bargain prices on Sept. 27 (10 a.m. -7 p.m. at the University Memorial Center) with a business fashion show from noon to 1 p.m. outside of the University Bookstore. Full suits will be priced at just $15, and proceeds will benefit the Multicultural Business Student Association and the Multicultural Engineering Program.
 

Honors and Awards
Congratulations to the following individuals on their outstanding achievements.

Faculty
Bernard Amadei of civil, environmental and architectural engineering has been selected to receive the 2007 Hoover Medal awarded by a board with representatives from ASCE, AIChE, ASME, IEEE, and AIMMPE. According to the citation, “the purpose of the medal is to mark the public service of men [sic] who have gone outside of their strictly professional work to interest themselves in civic and humanitarian affairs; engineers have something to contribute to public service.” He is the 63rd Hoover Medal since 1930, when President Herbert Hoover was the first recipient.

Paul Chinowsky of civil, environmental and architectural engineering received the 2007 Researcher of the Year award from the Construction Industry Institute.

Staff
Anthea Johnson Rooen of the Multicultural Engineering Program was selected to receive the 2007 Service Award from Colorado Math, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA).

Students
Aerospace engineering students Kathryn Hamera, Amanda Heaton, Keric Hill, Brandon Jones, Sean O'Dell, and Jeffrey Parker, along with Keith Davis (EE/MBA) and Torsten Zorn (MBA) were named finalists in the Lunar Ventures Student Business Plan Competition, a national competition challenging students to create business ventures using space technology. The students conceived and wrote a business plan to provide navigation and communication services to satellites in the lunar environment, providing highly accurate solutions for lunar satellites, landers, and rovers. The constellation also would have the unique capability of providing the Earth with navigation and communication coverage of the far side of the moon.

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