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From creating a water filtration system for school children in Africa to designing affordable, sustainable housing in South America, Gonzaga Engineering students use sound engineering principles in innovative ways to help people.
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Sustainable Building in SudanSenior Civil Engineering students are working to complete a preliminary building design for the Catholic University in Juba, Sudan. The design will use environmentally responsible and affordable materials as well as construction methods. The students hope the project will inspire more sustainable building projects in Juba and the surrounding area as the students educated there become leaders throughout Sudan and Africa. |  |
 | Tutoring Local StudentsMembers of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, are tutoring local 3rd to 12th grade students in math. The GU students volunteer on Saturdays to work with students who need help with math concepts and homework. One recent graduate, Kelli Bacon, said she was surprised by the positive impact her tutoring had on two 4th grade girls who were struggling to learn their multiplication tables. The girls scheduled sleepovers on Friday nights to study before the Saturday tutoring sessions. The girls even took their homework bowling and did math problems while waiting for the pins to be set up! Kelli says she misses the time they shared as the girls greeted her with notes and hugs each week, "We just really developed a bond." |