Student engineers travel to Ethiopia this summer to help protect local wildlife
Fulton Schools students, including members of the ASU chapter of Engineers Without Borders, teamed recently with fellow ASU students and ASU faculty members and mentors to help reduce the plastic waste problem in Ethiopia that is endangering the country’s fragile ecosystem and a rare species of monkey. ASU students worked with fellow students from the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology to build machines to help solve the area’s plastic problem. Another goal was to help find ways local residents could profit from region’s ecosystem. Organizers of the project plan to return to Ethiopia next year and offer more engineering students an opportunity to work on the project.
See also: ASU Student Engineer’s Embark On Mission To Safeguard Ethiopian Wildlife, India Education Diary, July 2