Leadership
The Leadership team is responsible for managing the chapter's members, projects, fundraising, and external relationships with entities like EWB-USA and Purdue.
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.
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.
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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 Operations & Maintenance Manuals.
Louisiana: Structures
The Louisiana Structures 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.
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Louisiana: Systems
The Louisiana Systems team works primarily to determine the inner workings of the Community Center Design, from HVAC to Electrical Loading. The Systems team also works with determining Community needs post-hurricane, and the storage necessary for these items.
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Health: Projects
The Health Projects team is working on integrating the feedback our Louisiana community partners provided us on the pop-up shower design. This includes altering our original design to allow for a hanging shower bag and the additional weight that brings.
Health: Programs
The Health Programs team is conducting a feasibility study to assess the potential implementation of the Community Health Institutes that EWB-USA has been piloting. This includes collaborating with Purdue administration, gauging student interest, and monitoring the ongoing pilots at other universities.
Fundraising: Grants
The Grants team is a critical part of our chapter's team. These students write grant applications that help 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.
Fundraising: Events
The Events team focuses on campus-based fundraising activities to bring in chapter revenue. Managing our corporate sponsors as well as utilizing our chapter's address book allows the Events team to put on successful and sociable fundraising opportunities for the local community to participate in.
Fundraising: Outreach
The Outreach team works to maintain corporate sponsorships, seek out new corporate sponsorships, and maintain Alumni and Donor relations in order to assist in continuing to fund the chapter's work. They also help to manage the chapter's presence online across platforms such as LinkedIn and Instagram.
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 through EPICS that help oversee the class' lab meetings, providing technical and professional advice to teams. Additionally, we have a Resident Enigneer in Charge (REIC), who through EWB-USA, sign off on the engineering work that we perform before it is implemented.
