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Assessing Experiences of International Students in Haiti and Benin
The past two decades have seen an increase in international experiences for engineering students focused on service and research in developing countries. Motivation for these programs is founded in the growing recognition that there is a need for creating engineers with greater global awareness who are familiar with the need for integrating solutions to complex problems through interdisciplinary approaches.
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Volume 28 Number 4
Winter 2009
Humanitarian Engineering Pt I

SPECIAL ISSUE ON VOLUNTEERISM AND
HUMANITARIAN ENGINEERING – PART I
Guest Editor: Kevin M. Passino

DEPARTMENTS

3 President’s Message
5 Letter
48 News and Notes

4 Guest Editor’s Introduction

SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES

6 Engineering for Humanitarian Development: A Socio-Technical Approach
Bernard Amadei and William A. Wallace

16 Assessing Experiences of International Students in Haiti and Benin
Stephen E. Silliman

25 Linking Technologists and Humanitarians: IEEE/UN Foundation Humanitarian Technology Challenge
Karl Perusich, Harold Tepper, J. Roberto B. De Marca, Russ Lefevre, and Richard Baseil

32 International Humanitarian Engineering: Who Benefits and Who Pays?
J. D. J. Vandersteen, C. A. Baillie, and K. R. Hall

42 Engineering to Help: The Value of Critique in Engineering Service
Jen Schneider, Juan Lucena, and Jon A. Leydens

*Refereed articles.
Cover Image: Salifou Orou-Pete (Universite d'Abomey-Calavi), Tom Ronan (University of Notre Dame), and Andrew Mullen (University of Notre Dame) shown using a geoprobe direct push system to collect water quality samples along the souther Benin coastline. These data are used in the specification and calibration of a groundwater model for flow and transport in Southern Benin. Courtesy © S. Silliman.

Volume 28 Number 4 Winter 2009 Humanitarian Engineering Pt I

Volume 28 Number 4
Winter 2009
Humanitarian Engineering Pt I