Want to bring electricity to isolated villages in Africa?
Want to fight deforestation and save people hours of walking to fetch firewood?
Want to develop sustainable business models -- and then actually set up the business?
Want to apply your economics, anthropology, ENVS, language, writing, web design,
photography, marketing, organizational, leadership (or even engineering!) skills
to help solve real-world problems?
Want a hands-on, actually meaningful extracurricular that will let you improve
people's lives?
Then come check out Dartmouth Humanitarian Engineering!
Come to our first general meeting of the summer on Tuesday June 26 at 8:00 pm
in Cummings 200 to hear about our different projects!
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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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