Distinguished Professor Seminar Series: Professor Bernard Amadei
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Global Engagement for a Small Planet 
As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, humanity faces global challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic. More than ever, the STEM fields have a critical role to play in addressing these challenges and creating a more peaceful and sustainable world for all. Paraphrasing Albert Einstein, "Problems cannot be solved with the same level of thinking [mindset] that created them," a new mindset is needed for a post-2020 world. The presentation will discuss the components of that new mindset.
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In April 2000, Dr. Amadei visited a community in San Pablo, Belize, to assess their water supply. He learned that the 950 Mayan Indians living in the heart of the Belize jungle lacked clean water and sanitation infrastructure, and that most of the community鈥檚 children did not attend school because their time was dedicated to collecting water from miles away.
While the community had the natural resources and motivation to build a reliable water supply system, they lacked the technical skills to design a lasting solution. Professor Amadei went home and consulted colleagues on potential solutions, then returned to the community with a prototype and fourteen of his students who put the plan into action. The team installed a clean water system supplied and powered by a waterfall a quarter mile from the community. This simple and low-cost solution was the first Engineers Without Border -USA project!
Dr. Amadei has continued to harness the power of engineers to complete high-impact projects in other developing countries by officially founding Engineers Without Borders USA in 2002. Since then, EWB-USA has grown from a handful of passionate individuals to thousands of passionate volunteers working on hundreds of engineering projects across the globe.
鈥淚mproving the lives of the 5 billion people whose main concern is to stay alive by the end of each day on our planet is no longer an option for engineers; it is an obligation鈥 -Amadei, (www.ewb-usa.org)
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The 欧美口爆视频 Boulder Retired Faculty Association (UCBRFA) presents the distinguished professors of the University of 欧美口爆视频, a听lecture and presentation series featuring some of our finest professors and听their extraordinary research and scholarly work.