EW-Basics
EWB-USA builds a better world through engineering projects that empower communities to meet their basic human needs and equip leaders to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.
What is EWB-USA's mission?
The location of the first EWB-USA project.
What is San Pablo, Belize?
The Sierra Leone project teams have asked for PV+ rooftop storage which are known as these types of batteries.
What are solar photovoltaics?
The mountainous community of Caserio Panhux correlates to this project team.
What is GWS?
This fictional animal is the national animal of Scotland.
What is the unicorn?
El Centro Comunitario Educativo Pokomchi (CeCEP) and the LemonAid Fund are examples of these EWB partners.
What are NGOs (Non-governmental organizations)?
The year that EWB-NCSU chapter was founded.
What was 2006?
These types of gardens and systems involve growing plants by using water-based mineral solutions instead of soil.
What are hydroponics?
The capital of Freetown is home to these two schools where the SL project teams continue to work.
What are the Browndel and Goshen Schools?
The percent of Earth's oxygen produced by the Amazon rainforest.
What is ~20%?
Project timelines follow this exact schedule for specific phases.
What is the assessment phase, implementation phase, and monitoring phase?
The first country to bear the Engineers Without Borders name in the 1980s.
What is France, Ingénieurs Sans Frontières (ISF)-France?
Water treatment systems have been developed by SLW for the Browndel school because of these reasons.
What is the difficult access of clean water due to location on a hill along with overflow during the rainy seasons?
The weekly meetings for the NCP project teams are held on the weekends at this site where the hydroponic garden systems are bing implemented currently.
What is the Inter-Faith Food Shuttle?
This is the only letter that does not exist on the periodic table.
What is J?
Engineer's Council, Bechtel, and the Engineer Your Experience program are examples of these kinds of partners.
What are grant and university sponsors?
The year that EWB-USA first shifted from e-mailing paperwork to using Volunteer Village.
What is 2011?
Bruce (who works on-site with the GWS project team) holds this title.
What is REIC (Responsible Engineer In Charge)?
The equipment utilized by the GWS team such as multiple 2500 L storage tanks, gutters, and PVC piping were to create these systems to counteract the slopped terrain of the area.
What are rainwater harvesting systems?
The time it takes for sunlight to travel to earth.
What is 8 minutes and 19 seconds?
This team served in the past (and is currently being revamped) to be responsible for helping with project implementation, specifically for NCP.
What is the volunteering team?
The location where the SLRE project team worked from the summer of 2012 until March of 2020.
What is the Dele School?
The purpose of this process (known as an AAR) is to document and determine the viability of other solutions that work best to address the identified needs of the local community.
What is the Alternative Analysis Report?
The most recent NCP project to be finalized was an irrigation system for the Powell Magnet elementary school's garden that used these kinds of motorized pumps.
What are bike pumps?
This is the largest living structure on earth.
What is the Great Barrier Reef?