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EWB-USA Princeton Chapter wins award for Education
April 25, 2007
At the April 2007 Engineers Without Borders - USA International Conference, the 2006-2007 Award for Education was presented to the EWB chapter at Princeton University.
EWB partners with developing communities to improve their quality of life through the implementation of environmentally sustainable, equitable, and economical engineering projects while developing internationally responsible engineers and engineering students.
Seminar series slides and videos now available
April 18, 2007
Slides and videos are now available for the first two seminars in this year's Spring series.
- "Engineers Without Borders-Princeton: Engineering Connections across the Globe" presented on February 20, 2007 by Andrew Lapetina '07 & Katie Lewis-LaMonica '08 (view the video; download the slides, pdf 2.7MB)
- "Providing Internet Search for Low-Connectivity Regions" presented on March 6 by Bill Thies, MIT (view the video; download the slides, pdf 1.6MB)
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Related News
The following news items relate to and are supportive of the mission and goals of the Center for Technology in Developing Regions.
Bill Gates' commencement address at Harvard, June 2007: "...humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries—but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity—reducing inequity is the highest human achievement." Read the full address.
Dean Kamen's commencement address at Bates College, June 2007: "There is a disproportionate capability among people on this planet to solve problems. We certainly can't expect most of the people who don't have the resources to be the ones who supply the solutions. That makes you a very small minority. I heard different definitions of "minority," but educated people who understand the laws of nature, the rules of engineering, or the laws of man and economics and finance and politics and democracy are an incredibly small minority on this planet, and they have a huge advantage in the leverage and the control they have over the world's physical and political environment." Read the full address.