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Project Lead: Lupita Montoya About 65% of all Navajo households and almost 90% of those in rural areas rely on wood and coal to heat their homes, often using old, poorly ventilated and inefficient stoves. The negative health effects of this practice in the Navajo community could be greatly reduced...

June 3, 2019 A large-scale program to deliver water filters and portable biomass-burning cookstoves to Rwandan homes reduced the prevalence of reported diarrhea and acute respiratory infection in children under 5 years old by 29% and 25%, respectively, according to new findings published today in the journal PLOS Medicine ...

Robert H. Davis, dean of the University of Colorado Boulder's College of Engineering and Applied Science, is pleased to announce that Professors Bernard Amadei and Karl Linden have accepted roles as the new Faculty Co-Directors of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities (MCEDC), effective July 1, 2015. Joining...

Dr. Nathan Canney (EDC certificate awardee, December 2013) and Dr. Angela Bielefeldt (Professor in Environmental Engineering) earned the Best Paper Award at the 2015 American Society of Engineering Education Conference and Exposition in June 2015. The paper, Volunteerism in Engineering Students and Its Relation to Social Responsibility, is available on...

Dr. Bernard Amadei, Mortenson Chair in Global Engineering and Founding Director of the Mortenson Center in Engineering for Developing Communities, is pleased to announce the release of his new book: Engineering for Sustainable Human Development: A Guide to Successful Small Scale Community Projects, by B. Amadei, ASCE Press (2014), http://www.asce.org/Product.aspx?id=2147487569&productid=201493709