After initial meetings in Amman, Jordan the team has crossed into the West Bank and are now working in Ramallah and Tulkarem districts. Touring farmlands and meeting with stakeholders in preparation for Wednesday's workshop.

Sponsored by Aramex, and in partnership with the Center for Civic Engagement and Community Service (CCECS) at the American University of Beirut (AUB), the Global Engineering Program (GEP) at Purdue University is adopting a community development project in Sabra area in Beirut, Lebanon aiming to improve its livelihood conditions.

Things are going great and all the students are handling things extremely well.

Jared Graham (ECE '12), Annah Biela (FYE '14) and Lindsay Moore (MDE '12) accompanied by Professor George Chiu, represented Purdue College of Engineering at the annual ICAMES (International Cultural and Academic Meeting of Engineering Students)

A team of Purdue University undergraduate students has won a $75,000 national competition to help officials build a small hydropower system to provide electricity for vital services, homes and schools in a village in Cameroon, Africa.

New director, staff and programs are discussed in the latest GEP newsletter.

As an environmental engineer, Ernest "Chip" Blatchley has spent his career thinking about water. A year ago, following a trip to Kenya, he expanded his thinking on a global scale, and has since been on a quest to find ways to deliver safe drinking water where it is most needed.