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 term tomorrow, Tuesday January 8th at 8:00 pm in Carson 060 (it's on the first floor of the library) to hear about all of our 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
small-scale hydropower, briquetting 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.
14 students, from freshman to post-grads traveled this year 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 dhedartmouth.org or blitz back!