Alysen's Engineers Without Borders Haiti trip.

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Engineers without Borders UW Madison Chapter trip
to Bayonnaise, Haiti January 2010
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Engineers Without BoardersUW Madison Chapter

• There are professional chapters and student
  chapters around the world
• Its a non-profit organization
• Madison is currently part of five community
  projects
• Domestic - Wisconsin
• El Salvador
• Haiti
• Kenya
• Rwanda

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Engineers Without BoardersUW Madison Chapter

• Madison has been a member of EWB since 2003
• The Madison chapter has over 80 active members
  and maintains a five-year commitment to five
  communities. Making it the largest chapter of
  Engineers without Boarders in the United States.

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Organizations that Help

• Madison partners with EWB-SF (the San Francisco
  Professional Chapter)
• A church group from North Carolina (OFCB aka the
  World of God)
• The UW team works with both groups in Haiti.

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Projects by EWB in Bayonnais

• They have constructed a three-span vehicular
  bridge over a large river
• They have installed a photovoltaic solar power
  system to provide electricity for the school and
  church
• EWB-SF is currently working on designing a clinic
  for the Baynonnais area
• The UW students did the surveying for the clinic
• The current focus for the UW group is to design
  and construct a hydro-electric power generation
  facility to provide electricity for the clinic
  and other community buildings

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• While the UW students were in Haiti in June of
  2009 doing some assessments and implementation
  they found that severe flash flooding destroyed
  the water pipe crossing leaving 20,000 people
  without access to clean potable water.
• To fix the problem the UW students designed a
  cable suspension bridge that would raise the
  water pipe over the river so that erosion would
  not effect it again.

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• There was some basic surveying done during the
  June 2009 trip but it was not efficient enough
  for the design.
• So the January 2010 trip (the one I was on) was
  setup to obtain more survey data and to
  temporarily repair the pipe until the UW team
  could make it back out there to implement their
  proposed design to permanently fix the water
  crossing

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The EWB pipe crossing design
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How did Alysen (thats me) get involved

• I had never heard of the Engineers without
  Boarders prior to this experience. Makes since
  though theres Doctors without Boards so why not
  Engineers.
• Glenn Schafer had sent out an email to all MASC
  member asking if anyone was interested. And me
  being the adventurous type wrote back do you
  need an RLS (for I did not obtain my until
  March). Glenn told me to contact Eyleen (shes
  the President of EWB-UW). So I did.

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How did Alysen (thats me) get involved

• It turns out that was a fairly good candidate.
• I had the survey experience needed
• I have lived in no plumbing situations
• I spoke some French (which is one of the
  languages spoken by Haitians, most of them speak
  Creole, which is a variation of French).
• And I was able to travel on required dates

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The EWB-UW Group
Eyleen Choa EWB-UW President, Mechanical
Engineer student Randi Schieber Civil
Engineer student Tyler Lark Biochemical Engineer
student Jonathan Lee Electrical Engineer
student Michael Hoeger Mechanical Engineer Scott
Hamel Engineering Professor at UW Madison,
assists the students with all their projects
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World of God

• World of God is a church organization thats
  helps communities in extreme poverty.
• WOG is the reason that EWB is in Bayonnaise Haiti
• They needed electricity for the new church and
  school that the church group was assisting in.
• 5 members of WOG where in Haiti with us.
• We coordinated our trip around theirs to save the
  community time and money in travel expenses to
  come and pick us up.

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Wheres Haiti
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Staying in the Airport inFort Myers, FL
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70 miles in 5 hours
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