Conference Session

Session 4: Focus on the Americas

Collection

2017 EDI

Authors

Cecilia Paredes

port, through which most of the commerce (export and import) of the country passes. INSTITUTIONAL MILESTONES Founded on October 29th 1958 Start of academic activities 1960´sBID/ESPOL I PROJECT(1972 – 1982) BID/ESPOL II PROJECT (1983 – 1992) • Improvement of existing laboratories. 1970´s • • Technical Programs (3 years programs) started

Conference Session

Cool Ideas

Collection

2017 EDI

Authors

Scott A Ashford; Gregory Washington; Molly M. Gribb P.E.; Bob Kolvoord; Jim Garrett; John English; Ronald Harichandran

experience &understand the survival challenges of local people ‘ 2017 CEAS/TBI Global Engineering Field School• Students to spend 6 weeks in rural Kenya having a unique socio-cultural experience• Take 2 3-credit courses at TBI facilities: • Engineering challenges in the developing world • Socio-Culturally Constrained Engineering Design Innovation ‘• Work on projects in the field seeking to improve the lives of local people• Develop ideas to pursue in their senior year Capstone Project The Energy/Food/Water Nexus• Social entrepreneurship: Best ideas selected for seed funding Capstone project example: Low Maintenance