Five Western Engineering students will be interning in Africa this summer as part of Engineers Without Borders and Civil & Environmental Engineering's International Development Program. The students plan to blog about their experiences. Follow their journey.
 

Internships and Exchanges

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has a program in International Development where students have the option of a summer community development placement. In the summer of 2009, five undergraduate students were placed in Gambia and Malawi working on projects such as municipal drinking water treatment and quality, community based education and irrigation and agriculture practice, developing appropriate technologies for small-scale water supplies and integrated watershed management programs. In the summer of 2010, students will be heading to Gambia but the projects and placements have not yet been finalized.

Engineers without Borders summer internship placements – In 2009, one student worked with Muzuzu Coffee Cooperative in Malawi helping to develop a fair trade option and learning about the challenges associated with that process. A second student worked on Governance and Rural infrastructure in Tamale, Ghana assisting with the development of a more proactive planning department and a more effective and user friendly data system. For the summer of 2010, two students will be working overseas - one in Ghana and the other in Malawi or Zambia but the details and descriptions of the placements have not been finalized.

2009/2010 Internship Placement – one student is working at Suncor in Sarnia, Ontario in the area of Environmental Health and Safety.

2009 Summer Engineering Co-Op placement with Hadadd Geotechnical doing site surveys and review of documents for Phase 1 Environmental Assessments.