EWB-Great Lakes Region

 Hi All,

Congratulations to Patrick Miller of the EWB-Chicagoland Professional Chapter for his election as president of the Great Lakes Region.  We’re all very excited about the new leadership he will bring to the role!

It has been a pleasure working with and coordinating the Great Lakes Region with all of you.  The region has been an exciting, new initiative that is slowly growing to aid all of the chapters in the area with implementation of quality projects, communicationwith each, and annual workshop gatherings.  Thanks for all of your support and good luck in 2009 and beyond!

-John Glassmire

Hello All Chapters!

Now that we have recovered from the 2008 Workshop, we are seeking chapters that would like to host the 2009 Workshop.  If you’d like to apply, please send an e-mail to me (president@ewb-greatlakes.org) answering the following questions:

1. Do you have facilities that can hold up to 200 people? Will these facilities allow for subgroups to split up?

2. Will logistics such as minor catering, travel, or lodging be a problem?

3. What goals would you have for the workshop?

4. What are some benefits of your chapter hosting the workshop?

5. If you attended the last workshop, what would you change to make it better? (It is not necessary to have attended the ‘08 workshop to host in 2009)

Also, please include your location, EWB Chapter, and contact info.  We are closing applications mid-December, so apply quickly!

Please send an e-mail to the Great Lakes President to express interest or get more information.

Congratulations to the UIUC chapter for a fantastic workshop!  The feedback we received from everyone was overwhelmingly positive.  Thank you to the whole UIUC chapter and in particular our workshop coordinator Jason Jewell.  They have raised the bar for next year’s workshop host.

Have a look at the photos from the workshop.  UIUC is hosting photos and pictures from the workshop.

Here are the presentations from the workshop.

The 2008 EWB-Great Lakes Regional Workshop location has been selected: Champaign-Urbana, IL, University of Illinois. EWB-UIUC has been one of the most active student chapters in the region, and we are excited about their vision of the workshop.

The workshop is slated for this September 26th -28th 2008. If you wish to participate in the planning of the workshop, please contact president@ewb-greatlakes.org.

To help in deciding where to have the next workshop we would like any chapter that is interested in hosting to send brief answers to the following questions to Daniel Atkins via email, treasurer@ewb-greatlakes.org:

1. Do you have facilities that can hold up to 200 people? Will these facilities allow for subgroups to split up?

2. Will logistics such as minor catering, travel, or lodging be a problem?

3. What goals would you have for the workshop?

4. What are some benefits of your chapter hosting the workshop?

5. If you attended the last workshop, what would you change to make it better? (It is not necessary to have attended the last workshop to host in 2008)

Also, please include your location, EWB Chapter, and contact info. We are hoping to have a host picked by the end of November. Please respond quickly.

With the successful completion of the 2007 Great Lakes Regional Workshop, we are looking for an EWB chapter host for next year. We have already had several requests to host, so please contact John Glassmire if you are interested.

The 2008 Great Lakes Regional Workshop will be in the Fall of 2008, and the host will be finalized by the end of 4th quarter 2007.

The Great Lakes region would like to thank everyone who made the workshop a success! Special thanks go to EWB-CPC (especially the conference organizer Jennifer Dunn) and EWB-UIC.

In addition, we would like to thank our speakers (click for biographies) and our generous sponsors:

Many of the presentations at the workshop are available for download below. Please click on the desired file to get it.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

Anne Evens, Center for Neighborhood Technology
“Sustainable Communities, Attainable Results: A Presentation about the Center for Neighborhood Technology”

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29

Welcoming Remarks
Cathy Leslie, Executive Director, Engineers Without Borders USA
Dr. Sabri Cetinkunt, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mike Paddock, Program Manager, CH2MHill
Aaron Datesman, Treasurer, EWB Chicago Professional Chapter

Student and Professional EWB Projects
Bryn Martin and Seema Farooqui, University of Illinois at Chicago
Riyaz Shipchandler, Chicago Professional Chapter
Ali Bernero, Milwaukee School of Engineering

EWB Health and Safety Program
George Jamison, Great Lakes Region Technical Advisory Committee

High Performance Concrete
Hands-on session on mixing concrete in developing countries
Professor Mohsen Issa, UIC Civil Engineering

Working with Other Cultures
Dr. Bonnie Jean Adams, Benedictine University
Tom O’Brien, Peace Corps Alumnus
Urmi Sengupta, ShoreCap Exchange

Drinking Water Acquisition and Purification
Jim Bodenner, International Aid
Dr. Stephen Silliman, University of Notre Dame
Dr. Robin Collins, University of New Hampshire

Career fair and water testing and acquisition demonstrations
Steve Hubbs, Louisville, KY

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30

Opening Remarks
John Glassmire, President EWB Great Lakes Region

Fundraising
Colette Martin-Wilde, The Rotary Foundation
Nancy Cohen, Director of Development, UIC Engineering
Cathy Leslie, Executive Director, EWB USA

Building Relationships – Interactions between students, professionals, and faculty
Dr. Kurt Paterson, Michigan Tech & Mike Paddock, CH2MHill, EWB Milwaukee Professional Chapter

Effective Meeting Facilitation Workshop
Julie Henning, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Conducting Effective Health Assessments
Dr. Peter Scheff, UIC School of Public Health

EWB Project Process
Tammy Wergin and Cathy Leslie, EWB-USA

Please click here for a downloadable workshop agenda.