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+ Engineers make a difference!

-Water.org

In December 2015, Cal Poly's Engineers without Borders sent 17 engineering students abroad to work on several ongoing projects in India, Thailand, Nicaragua, and Malawi.  EWB's Thailand team spent three weeks in Thailand performing water quality testing on previously implemented filters and assessing for an energy project. 

 

                     Kimberly Pugel (ENVE), Michallynn Hoffman (IE), Stefania Beauchamp (SE), and Abigail Nial (MATE) with water quality trays during an Engineering Without Borders (EWB) trip to Thailand.

From left: Kimberly Pugel (ENVE), Michallynn Hoffman (IE), Stefania Beauchamp (SE), Abigail Nial (MATE) showing the water quality trays from the team's previously implemented slow sand filters. The yellow trays are positive for fecal coliforms before the filters and the clear trays are clean from after the filters. 

 

                     EWB students taking drinking water samples with children from the community of Maejantai.

Students taking drinking water samples with some of the kids from the community of Maejantai.

 

 

                      Stefania Beauchamp double-checking her field notes with a boy from Maejantai.

Stefania Beauchamp double checking field notes with one of the boys from Maejantai.

 

Visit EWBThailand's travel blog to see more of what the team has been up to!

 

Cal Poly Students Create Beach Walker for Local Special Olympic Athlete (pdf): These college seniors designed and built a beach walker for an 8 year old athlete with cerebral palsy.  

Engineering World Health: "EWH finds innovative solutions to overcome technical challenges impacting health care in developing countries.

 

+ Many companies recruit from Cal Poly.

 

Median starting salary for CENG: $85,000

Highest starting salary: $145,000

-Graduate Status Report

+ You CAN change your major.

 

Almost 90% of CP students didn’t decide to be an engineer until High School.

"Over 30% of our students change majors [successfully.]” –Removing Hurdles Towards Progress to Degree: Curricular, Poly, and Technical Challenges

 

Learn more about the engineering disciplines!
 

 

Contact Information

Program Director
Helene Finger
hfinger@calpoly.edu

Student Assistant
Ashley Corona
womens-engineering@calpoly.edu

WEP Office
Building 40, Rm 113
Cal Poly State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407

SWE Office
Building 197, Room 212
Cal Poly State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
calpolyswesecretary@gmail.com

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