Featured Student Groups
Engineers Without Borders |
Maya Sathyanadhan '06, '07
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It’s the fastest-growing student organization at Johns Hopkins Engineering and it’s making a big impact— from South Africa to Ecuador and Honduras. The Johns Hopkins chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) was founded in 2005 and has already sent undergraduates around the world to implement environmentally and economically sustainable engineering projects and improve people’s lives.
Maya Sathyanadhan is the current president of the Hopkins’ chapter of EWB. Last summer, she traveled to KwaZulu-Natal Province in South Africa with 17 EWB members and a faculty advisor. There, they built a simple water pump out of readily available materials and provided the remote villages of Inchanga and Maphaphetani with a much-needed water supply and conservation system.
Richard Tang '06 with DoGEE Professor Bill
Ball and Pierre Bonnet from Durban, South
Africa in KwaZulu - Natal Province
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“Thinking and talking about having no access to water is one thing. Experiencing it and doing something about it is another,” Sathyanadhan explains. “I learned so much when we went to South Africa. We provided water for two small villages. It was just a tiny solution to a huge problem, but it made a difference. Their vegetable gardens were already growing when we left.”
The Hopkins chapter of EWB is now planning to implement a water supply and sewage treatment system in a village in Honduras and is working with the University of Maryland’s EWB chapter on a wastewater treatment project in Ecuador. For more information about the Hopkins chapter of EWB, visit http://www.ewb.jhu.edu/.
Engineers for a Sustainable World |
 Students in the Johns Hopkins chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) also use their skills as engineers to implement environmentally-friendly initiatives a little closer to home—on the Hopkins campus. They’ve helped make our campus more energy efficient through projects that have included replacing less-efficient light bulbs with halogen bulbs and figuring out how to have campus vending machines maintain products at a constant temperature without running continuously.
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