Changed: Students Back from Bolivia Talk about How it Shifted Their Thinking

Students learn about a rainwater collector in the El Campo community from a local engineering during their Spring Break research trip to Bolivia. 
Students learn about a rainwater collector in the El Campo community from a local engineering during their Spring Break research trip to Bolivia. 

A dozen School of Civil and Environmental Engineering students will travel to New York this weekend to present their findings from a recent research trip to Bolivia.

A dozen School of Civil and Environmental Engineering students will travel to New York this weekend to present their findings from a recent research trip to Bolivia.

We’re not talking graduate students who’ve been doing research for months or years. No, this is a group of undergrads who spent just over a week abroad as part of a course they’ve been taking with Joe Brown called Environmental Technology in the Developing World.

And while they collected mountains of data about water quality and helped pilot a data-collection approach for the 200 Cities Project, they also came back to campus with new ideas about their futures and the ways they can make the world a better place.

Read the full story and hear students on the CEE Field Notes podcast.