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Interested in bringing electricity to isolated villages in Africa?
Want to fight deforestation and create sustainable energy from waste materials?
Want to develop sustainable business models -- and then actually set
up the business?
~~~Come check out Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering!
~~~Tonight at 8pm in Cummings 200
Don't worry if you're not an engineer -- we need students from every major!
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About DHE
DHE is an award-winning, impact-driven organization comprised of
students from every year and most majors. We run a variety of
projects, including hydropower, fuel-efficient cookstoves and biogas
in Rwanda, Tanzania and the Upper Valley.
DHE's small-scale hydropower project was recently recognized as a Dell
Social Innovation Tomberg Prize Finalist,
NCIIA Venture Lab Award Winner, EPA P3 Grant Recipient and Outstanding
Student Humanitarian project in the IEEE's 2011 Change the World
contest for its innovative engineering concept and business model.
11 students, from freshman to post-grads are currently spending their
summer traveling to implement DHE projects!
Our partners include CARE International, the Jane Goodall Institute,
the Rwandan Ministry of Infrastructure,
and other engineering student groups at Imperial College London and
the Kigali Institute of Science and Technology.
For more information, check out our website at
thayer.dartmouth.edu/dhe or blitz back!
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