Seven Teams from U.S. Universities Among Winners of International Engineering Contest
May 30 2005 - 1:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
Seven Teams from U.S. Universities Among Winners of International
Engineering Contest - DaimlerChrysler and UNESCO award a total of
300,000 euros in prize money STUTTGART, PARIS and BERLIN, May 30
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- On Monday evening in Berlin, Germany,
DaimlerChrysler and UNESCO presented the Mondialogo Engineering
Award with a total of 300,000 euros in prize money. An
international jury awarded the prizes to 21 project teams from 28
countries. In this unique worldwide contest, international project
teams worked together over the past year to produce engineering
proposals to reduce poverty and promote sustainable development in
developing countries. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020212/DCXLOGO ) The
Mondialogo Engineering Award is a DaimlerChrysler and UNESCO
initiative aimed at promoting intercultural dialogue among young
engineers around the world. The initiative calls on students from
industrialized and developing countries to work together on
proposals for sustainable engineering applications to aid
developing countries. More than 1,700 young engineers and students
from 79 nations registered for the contest, forming 412
international teams. A distinguished international jury assessed
project ideas for sustainability, feasibility and quality of
intercultural dialogue within the project group. Among the
prize-winners are seven teams from U.S. universities -- the highest
representation from any country. Each team received an award of
approximately $18,000. -- Colorado School of Mines, Division of
Engineering with Universidad Tecnologica Centroamericana in
Honduras; Project title: "Investigation of appropriate water and
waste management technologies for cities with developing
countries." -- Colorado State University, Engineers without Borders
and Engines and Energy Conservation Laboratory, with Tribhuvan
University in Nepal; Project: "Lighting up the Nepalese Villages."
-- Lehigh University, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering with Negnal Engineering College in India; Project
title: "Providing Arsenic-free water in remote villages in West
Bengal, India." -- Michigan Tech University and Sustainable Futures
Institute and Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban
Affairs and Southern University and A&M College, with Partido
State University in the Philippines; project: "Development of
appropriate and sustainable construction materials." -- University
of Colorado at Boulder, Engineers without Borders, and University
of Wisconsin, Department of Engineering, with University of
Ruhengeri and University of Butare in Rwanda; project: "Solutions
for Muramba, Rwanda: Rebuilding after a 'Time of Running'." --
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Engineers without
Borders, with Orissa University and Janannath Institute of
Technology in Russia; Project title: "Biodiesel development in
rural Russia." -- University of Texas - El Paso with Tongji
University in China; Project title: "Leapfrogging Urban
Transportation Systems in Shanghai, China." The aim of Mondialogo
is to encourage dialogue between young people around the world
through the activities of the school and engineering contests and
through the Internet portal. This cooperation is intended to
develop understanding, tolerance and friendship between people with
different cultural, religious and linguistic backgrounds. The
international jury for the Mondialogo Engineering Award consisted
of a panel of distinguished members including: Prof. Peggy
Oti-Boateng (Director of the Technology Consultancy Center at Kwame
Nkrumah University, Ghana), Prof. Gulsun Saglamer (Professor and
former Rector of the Technical University Istanbul, Turkey), Prof.
Shirley Malcom, USA, (Head of the Directorate for Education and
Human Resources Programs of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science), Prof. Lee-Yee Cheong from Malaysia
(President of the World Federation of Engineering Organizations,
WFEO) and Prof. Wei Yu (Director of the Research Center for
Learning Sciences, Southeast University, China). Chairmen of the
jury are Prof. Marcio Barbosa (Brazil), Deputy Director-General of
UNESCO, and Prof. Herbert Kohler (Germany), Chief Environmental
Officer and Head of Research in the Body and Powertrain Unit of
DaimlerChrysler AG. The ambassadors of this worldwide initiative
are Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho; Swedish author Henning Mankell;
and Shen Che, Chairman of the "China Folklore Photographic
Association" and President of the "Humanity Photo Awards". Jurgen
E. Schrempp, Chairman of the Board of Management at DaimlerChrysler
AG and Koichiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO are the
patrons of Mondialogo. The Mondialogo Engineering Award is part of
the broader Mondialogo initiative, developed by DaimlerChrysler and
UNESCO which includes a worldwide contest aimed at promoting
intercultural dialogue between secondary school students, called
the Mondialogo School Contest. It also maintains an internet portal
in four languages, which features a magazine dedicated to
intercultural topics. Further information and image material can be
obtained at http://www.mondialogo.org/.
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020212/DCXLOGODATASOURCE:
DaimlerChrysler CONTACT: Florian Martens of DaimlerChrysler AG,
+1-212-909-9062, or fax +1-212-909-9065, ; or Sue Williams of
UNESCO, +33-01-45-68-17-06, or fax +33-01-45-68-56-59, Web site:
http://www.mondialogo.org/ http://www.daimlerchrysler.com/
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