A presentation by Wade Burcham with Thompson Engineering on Volunteer Opportunities for Engineerings.

1. Nerds, Need, and Knack A great recipe for increasing your skills as an engineer AND Significantly impacting peoples lives.

2. We as have skills and resources that allow us to positively impact people in extreme need WHICH make us better engineers with greater skill sets in the process.

5. These problems are not technological problems

11. Lots of good reasons, but from a simple ASCE standpoint: Mission work Might help you or someone else be better person, but it Will make you a better engineer

12. Designing at a different rung: --------------What are the needs ? ----------What is being done now? -----------What can be done? ---------------------------- Typical Design in United States ----------------------- Minimum regulations -------------------------- Personal requirements --------------------- Minimum that needs to be done Labor Expensive Materials Readily Available Labor Cheap Materials Scarce

13. Home Depot’s in developing countries: Uganda Haiti SE Asia Ethiopia

16. A Little Planning….

17. A Little Engineering….

18. A LITTLE SWEAT

19. A Lot of Water for the American’s

20. A LITTLE INVOLVEMENT

21. A LITTLE FOLLOW-UP BEFORE… AFTER…

29. Nerds, Need, and Knack