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Engineers Without Borders Students – AalborgActivities and Perspectives
Northern Denmark University CollegeMarch 25, 2010
David ChristensenChairman, EWB-Students AalborgResearch Fellow, Department of Development and PlanningAalborg University
Student-related activities are carried out at EWB-Students chapters at four locations in Denmark:• Copenhagen (Technical University of Denmark)• Aalborg (Aalborg University)• Århus (Engineering College of Århus)• Odense (University of Southern Denmark)
Who we are and who we want to be:• Research and teaching staff • Students (PhD, M.Sc., Bachelor)• Related to all fields, technical and non-technical
BestyrelseFormand og 6 medlemmer
1 suppleant
SekretariatChristina Hennings
IUG StudentsDanny El Dakak
DTU
AAU
IHA
SDU
ProjektudviklingSteen Clausen
Projekt indentifikationEWB International
Projektformulering
Økonomi, bemanding og implementering
BeredskabGill Price
Driftsorganisation
KommunikationNanja Hedal
Præsentationer, Layout, Artikler, Hjemmeside,
Nyhedsbreve
ITAdam Jensen
Udvikling af hjemmeside
Økonomi og BogføringMerete Them Kjølholm
Projektstøtte, Aftaler og HR
MedlemsadministrationAnders Hedelund
The EWB-Denmark Students Aalborg Board
David ChristensenResearch Assistant (Environmental Management), AAU
Nicola MarchettiPost Doc (ICT), AAU
Martin VandborgBuilding Technician
Mathias BoysenStudent (Health Technology) AAU
Thomas Nørgaard NielsenPh.D. Student (Health Technology) AAU
Jens Myrup PedersenAssociate Professor (ICT), AAU
We Need More Students!
General Assembly to be Held Soon!
• New board to be constituted• If interested in participating, please send email to [email protected]
Mission Statement
• To give students the opportunity contribute with their engineering skills in humanitarian and development assistance.• To expand their professional competences• To facilitate cooperation between students, aid organizations and companies• To disseminate knowledge about Engineers Without Borders to strengthen it’s activities, and• To promote education activities relating to humanitarian and development engineering assistance at higher education institutes
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EventsSeminars, workshops, etc.
Outreach Companies, NGO’s
Student internshipsAt home or abroad
Project assistanceFull or ad-hoc supervision
Social activitiesThe fun stuff
ProjectsPast•Biogass energy supply for Masanga Hospital, Sierra Leone•Rehabilitation of solar thermal system, Machabeng Government Hospital, Lesotho•Sustainable construction materials for low-income housing, India•Remote sensing and digital mapping of water resources for refugee camp planning, Kenya
Current•Rural electrification of Bedouin villages in the West Bank of the Palestine
Future•New engineering fields (industrial design engineering, global business engineering)•UCN Northern Jutland projects, e.g. Technology and Business studies students?
Find our previous student project reports on River Research Webshelf:http://www.researchwebshelf.com/
