Zhang, H., & Everett, J. W., & Kadlowec, J., & COffey, S., & McFarland, A. R. (2013, June), From Glassboro to The Gambia– A Collaborative Work with the University of the Gambia and a Winter Trip to the Gambia Villages  Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia. 10.18260/1-2--19636

\bibitem{asee_peer_19636}
  Zhang, H., \& Everett, J. W., \& Kadlowec, J., \& COffey, S., \& McFarland, A. R. (2013, June), \emph{From Glassboro to The Gambia– A Collaborative Work with the University of the Gambia and a Winter Trip to the Gambia Villages}
  Paper presented at 2013 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia.
  10.18260/1-2--19636

Hong Zhang, Jess W. Everett, Jennifer Kadlowec, Sean COffey COffey, and Andrea Rose McFarland.  "From Glassboro to The Gambia– A Collaborative Work with the University of the Gambia and a Winter Trip to the Gambia Villages".  2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2013.  https://peer.asee.org/19636 Internet.  16 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_19636}
  Hong Zhang, Jess W. Everett, Jennifer Kadlowec, Sean COffey COffey, and Andrea Rose McFarland.
  "From Glassboro to The Gambia– A Collaborative Work with the University of the Gambia and a Winter Trip to the Gambia Villages".
  \emph{2013 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, 2013, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2013.
  https://peer.asee.org/19636 Internet.  16 Jan, 2025

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AB  -             From Glassboro to The Gambia– A Collaborative Work with the           University of the Gambia and a Winter Trip to the Gambia Villages    The Gambia is a small country located at the tip of West Africa. The EngineeringWithout Boarder (EWB) Rowan University section has been working with the localpeople of the Gambia on various projects. In the fall of 2011, Rowan EWB teamed upwith the professor and students from the University of the Gambia on three projects:1) Promote a more environmental friendly life style by substituting firewood with     biomass briquettes. The briquette can be fabricated from peanut shell and corn cob     using a simple device and easy process developed by Rowan Engineering;2) Survey local water supplies for a group of 8 villages in a remote area of the Gambia.     We helped them to prioritize the need facing limited supply of external donations and     develop a mechanism to manage and maintain the wells;3) Inspect an important road connecting the villages to the outer world and provide     maintenance tips and improvement recommendations.                                                                                                                                             Figure  1:  Left:  A  peanut  shell  briquette  burning  together  with  dry  grass.    Middle:  Local  children  surrounding  an  open  well.  Right:  The  dirt  road  connecting  the  villages  to  the  rice  field,  lumo  (market),  river,  and  outside  world.        The  Rowan  team  and  the  University  of  the  Gambia  team  worked  together  to  make  the  project  a  success.  The  teams  had  to  overcome  the  difficulties  in  many  areas  such  as  language  (two  completely  different  languages  are  spoken  in  the  villages),  culture  (two  ethnic  tribes  and  two  religions),  economic  (almost  no  cash  income  except  selling  of  rice,  corn  and  pumpkins  plus  external  donations),  and  tradition  (many  local  villagers  have  been  relying  on  firewood  for  everyday  cooking  and  switch  to  loose  corn  cobs  when  the  supply  of  firewood  dwindles).          
AU  - Hong Zhang
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