Leadership
The Leadership team is responsible for managing the chapter's members, projects, fundraising, and external relationships with entities like EWB-USA and Purdue.
Keira Morrin
Co-President
Eliza Thurs
Co-President
Amanda Steward
Treasurer
Eryk Chazares
Archivist
Anita Dinakar
New Member Lead
Abby Heppelmann
Health Project Manager
Sidney Bauer
Rwanda Project Manager
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Rachel Schwab
Rwanda Associate Project Manager
Pranay Gohel
Louisiana Project Manager
Michaela Chandler
Louisiana Associate Project Manager
Keira Keegan
Fundraising Project Manager
Courtney Hocutt
Fundraising Associate Project Manager
Rwanda: Water
The Rwanda Water team focuses primarily on Hydraulic calculations, mapping pipeline routes in ArcGIS, and performing population estimates to ensure the system being implemented can provide for the community's water usage needs.
Lilly Maldia
Senior Design Student/Co-Design Lead
William Dowton
Co-Design Lead
Molly Dennis
Member
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Nicolas Bustamente
Member
Ryan Brown
Member
Jialin Liu
Member
Sarah Frazier
Member
Elle Case
Member
Ira Kulkarni
Member
Nachiket Magesh
Member
Grant Zhou
Member
Shannon Yip
Member
David Taranowski
Member
Rwanda: Structures
The Rwanda Structures team works primarily in AutoCAD to assist in structure design such as tanks, erosion control barriers, and tap stands. Additionally, the team works to help mark-up topographic maps and review drawings.
Serena Wei
Co-Design Lead
Elliot Bloom
Co-Design Lead
Jyestha Choudhary
Member
Rebecca Phelan
Member
Linda Zheng
Member
Luke Petrucci
Member
Shreya Ranganathan
Member
Rajan Joshi
Member
Sanah Arya
Member
Rwanda: Operations
The Rwanda Operations team focuses on the materials required for a smooth implementation of the project, such as the bill of materials, assessment checklists, pre and post-trip planning, and operation & maintenance manuals.
Mydhili Krishnan
Design Lead
Isabel Lubia
Member
Mallory Kuntz
Member
Harini Sivakumar
Member
Rashi Ravi
Member
Ava Britton-Heitz
Member
Louisiana: Long-Term
The Long-Term Projects Team is starting a feasibility study focusing on how long our partner's area is habitable and what solutions are there, specifically in adaptable/amphibious infrastructure. This feasibility study may help policy change in the future within adaptable housing.
Maria Kufahl
Design Lead
Jake Fisher
Member
Lauren Trim
Member
Ava Valerius
Member
Nico Calabrese
Member
Connor Taylor
Member
Louisiana: Short Term
The Louisiana Short-Term Projects team is currently working with the tribe on several scalable solutions for their community center, while also designing a couple of smaller structures to be implemented on the tribe's property.
Kaitlyn Parker
Design Lead
Alex Spada
Member
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Madelynn Fallat
Member
Max Briones
Member
Sara Gupta
Member
Sonia McKenzie
Member
Risha Gupta
Member
Jascha Lewitt
Senior Design Student
Nadira Balasundaram
Member
Health
The Health team is working on a feasibility study investigating the use of composting toilets in the Louisiana community. The compost from those toilets would be used for non-agricultural purposes in a nearby plant nursery. The trees grown in that plant nursery would then be planted along the coastline to combat coastal erosion.
Andrew Undesser
Co-Design Lead
Gernie Galvan
Co-Design Lead
Audrey Brinser
Member
Apsara Vimalarajah
Member
Julia Zimmerman
Member
Cian McCLamroch
Member
Vedant Rathi
Member
Akansha Chauhan
Member
Alex Kim
Member
Isnhara Durocher
Member
Fundraising: Grants
The Grants team is a critical part of our chapter's team. These students write grant applications to secure funding in order to make our designs a reality. Through technical writing skills and partner communication, the Grants team is able to paint a clear future of how our projects can provide real-world impact to our community partners.
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Mirko Glavan
Design Lead
Emily Creekmore
Member
Gavin Peterson
Member
Shruti Senthilnathan
Member
Leon Francis
Member
Roman Ross
Member
Mithali Obadage
Member
Fundraising: Stewardship
The Stewardship team focuses on maintaining and strengthening our chapter's relationships with existing alumni, sponsors, and other chapter stakeholders. They also help to manage the chapter's presence online across platforms such as LinkedIn and Instagram.
Landon King
Design Lead
Srikar Kolla
Member
Cecelia Goracki
Member
Fundraising: Corporate Outreach
The Corporate Outreach team works to maintain corporate sponsorships and seek out new corporate sponsorships in order to continue to fund the chapter's work.
Sam Paul
Design Lead
Dhruti Sirigibathina
Member
Ryan Jin
Member
Fundraising: Alumni Outreach
The Alumni & Individual Outreach team works to maintain alumni and individual donor relations in order to assist in continuing to fund the chapter's work.
Sean Chiang Lin
Design Lead
Clara de Groot
Member
Advisors
The Purdue Chapter of EWB operates within Purdue's Engineering Projects in Community Service, or EPICS, program. We are very grateful to have a team of several advisors and mentors through EPICS who help oversee our lab meetings and provide technical and professional advice to students. Additionally, we have two Responsible Engineers in Charge (REICs), who through EWB-USA and sign off on the engineering work that we perform before it is implemented.
William Oakes
Advisor
Susan Khalifah
Advisor
Andrew Mix
Industry Mentor
Roger Ward
REIC, Rwanda Projects
Bret Busse
REIC, Louisiana Projects