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At the first Senior Design team meeting in the fall semester, the enthusiasm was almost palpable. Although several engineering students had requested to work on a community development project, only a few had been chosen. For the project, village leaders in Honduras had requested a system that would bring clean drinking water to their remote village. One of the five team members summed up the spirit of the team when she said, “We ‘ve waited four years for this. Finally, we get a chance to do something real and meaningful with our engineering knowledge.” Eager to begin, the Senior Design team brainstormed several possible types of water systems. Before long, they were discussing whether their spring visit to the village could be an implementation visit.
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Lucena, J., Schneider, J., Leydens, J.A. (2010). Listening to Community. In: Engineering and Sustainable Community Development. Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, & Society. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-79961-7_5
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