EWB - Minnesota

Please join us Tuesday, June 24th at 6:00 PM for our next EWB-Minnesota Professional Chapter meeting. It will be held at the Saint Anthony Falls Laboratory Auditorium (SAFL).

The speaker for this month had planned to speak to us in May. but due to a conflict, had rescheduled for June instead.

June's speaker will be Ajay Gupta from Cummins' Power Generation Divisions. Mr. Gupta is leading a design team tasked with developing power solutions for developing countries, specifically East Africa. They have completed the first phase of the project and are in the process of expanding their scope to incorporate a wider range of technologies. They are hoping to tap into our experiences to help them create a sustainable and successful product that will greatly increase access to power throughout the developing world.

I am very excited about this presentation as it may lead to a partnership/project with Cummins and give us the opportunity to involve some of our members with mechanical and electrical backgrounds.

Directions to SAFL can be found at
http://www.safl.umn.edu/aboutus/directionsmap.html

Have a great day!

Mike Westereng
President
EWB-Minnesota Professionals

Rather than have another project meeting on Father’s Day, let’s meet at 6PM on TUESDAY JUNE 17th at the St. Anthony Falls Lab. (Jay or Andrew can you check on availability?). The agenda for this meeting will include: coordinate travel plans and ticket purchase, in-country scheduling, Sand Filter Progress, equipment needs, survey form...

Please send me additional agenda items.

Travel Team Members – PLEASE send me a response to this email indicating if you can attend or not.

Thanks,

Derrick
DerrickP@andersonpasse.com

Please join us Tuesday, May 27th at 6:00 P.M. for our next EWB - Minnesota Professionals Chapter meeting . It will be held at the Saint Anthony Fall Laboratory (SAFL) Auditorium.

The focus of May ' s meeting will be a presentation and brainstorming session by Ajay Gupta from Cummins' Power Generation Divisions. Mr. Gupta is leading a design team tasked with developing power solutions for developing countries, specifically East Africa. They have completed the first phase of the project and are in the process of expanding their scope to incorporate a wider range of technologies. They are hoping to tap into our experiences to help them create a sustainable and successful product that will greatly increase access to power throughout the developing world.

I am very excited about this presentation as it may lead to a partnership/project with Cummins and give us the opportunity to involve some of our members with mechanical and electrical backgrounds.

Directions to SAFL can be found at:
http://www.safl.umn.edu/aboutus/directionsmap.html

Here's a Google map:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2+third+ave+se+minneapolis,+mn&spn=0.02151...

Free Parking is available next to the power substation.

Welcome to the updated EWB Website, it's been a long-due update, but hopefully you'll like what we're doing.

The new website has the following features:
- More frequent announcments about our chapter
- User profiles, with ability to discuss issues and ask questions
- Searchable member profiles to find who to ask for advice
- Actually, the whole site is searchable

In the works:
- Project Sites
- Calendar
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