February 23, 2010
Who says you need buckets of cash and huge government bureaucracies to make a profound difference in the standard of living for people in developing countries?A handful of dedicated Duke undergraduate engineering students, with support from the GE Foundation, will later this year initiate an...
September 11, 2009
For Claude Flynn, long bicycle rides in the fresh air were therapy for the mind and exercise for the body. Every Sunday, she’d ride her bike 35 to 40 miles through the rolling Chatham County countryside south of Chapel Hill, N.C. Often, she would stop in a meadow, take in the sun, listen to the...
December 12, 2008
In 2005, Aditi Misra spent a summer in an El Salvador hospital striving to keep ancient hospital equipment, such as ventilators and ECG machines, in good working order. If she and the other students in the Engineering World Health (EWH) summer program had stayed home that summer, many patients...
October 14, 2008
In many ways, students who participate in Engineering World Health (EWH) programs are medical MacGyvers – using their engineering training and scavenging abilities to fix medical equipment in often remote locations under less-than-perfect conditions.
In the process of providing a much needed...
