Multiple Honors for UA Chapter of Engineers Without Borders
Humanitarian student group recognized for team-building and life-saving sanitation projects in Africa.
EWB chapter members show their premier chapter award at the EWB annual conference in Denver. Left to right are Bryce Hashimoto, Lauren Case, Terra Michaels, Bernard Amadei (founder of EWB-USA), William Casson, and Patrick Messe.
The University of Arizona student chapter of Engineers Without Borders was named a "Premier Chapter" at the recent EWB annual conference.
Only seven of more than 250 chapters receive this distinction each year. This year, only three of those seven were student chapters; the other four were professional chapters. The award was presented in March 2010 at the annual EWB-USA International Conference in Denver. The American Society of Civil Engineers sponsors the awards, which include a $1,000 prize.
An EWB statement said that UA chapter members "exemplify what is possible when a chapter seeks to build multidisciplinary teams. The students' commitment to building a strong chapter has ensured the successful completion of projects."
Those projects include a water supply and purification project started in 2005 in the village of Mafi-Zongo in Ghana. The project now supplies safe drinking water to more than 10,000 people in 30 communities.