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CE Club May 2016 Update

Engineers Without Borders

Julie Jones, the President of the EWB North Texas Professional Chapter, presented to the Woodrow Wilson HS CE Club about the positive impact that engineers can make in the world outside of their daily places of employment. As an organization, Engineers Without Borders allows engineers an avenue to donate their time and engineering skills to assist communities that would otherwise have minimal or no access to such resources. Julie explained to the students that that the vision and mission of EWB is to support community-driven development programs by collaborating with local partners to design and implement sustainable engineering projects while also giving their members an enriched global perspective. The goal is to serve communities in order that they would have the capacity and sustainability to meet their basic human needs.

Julie then showcased two recent projects that the EWB North Texas Professional Chapter has completed: a community gardens project in Dallas and a water storage and distribution project in Guatemala. Throughout the discussion of each project, Julie asked the students what they would do and what they thought the biggest challenges to each scenario were. Finally, Julie answered lots of questions for the students about her job as a private consulting engineer as well as her philanthropic involvement in organizations like EWB and ASCE.