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Volume 28 Number 4
Winter 2009
Humanitarian Engineering Pt I

SPECIAL ISSUE ON VOLUNTEERISM AND
HUMANITARIAN ENGINEERING – PART I
Guest Editor: Kevin M. Passino

DEPARTMENTS

3 President’s Message
5 Letter
48 News and Notes

4 Guest Editor’s Introduction

SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES

6 Engineering for Humanitarian Development: A Socio-Technical Approach
Bernard Amadei and William A. Wallace

16 Assessing Experiences of International Students in Haiti and Benin
Stephen E. Silliman

25 Linking Technologists and Humanitarians: IEEE/UN Foundation Humanitarian Technology Challenge
Karl Perusich, Harold Tepper, J. Roberto B. De Marca, Russ Lefevre, and Richard Baseil

32 International Humanitarian Engineering: Who Benefits and Who Pays?
J. D. J. Vandersteen, C. A. Baillie, and K. R. Hall

42 Engineering to Help: The Value of Critique in Engineering Service
Jen Schneider, Juan Lucena, and Jon A. Leydens

*Refereed articles.
Cover Image: Salifou Orou-Pete (Universite  d'Abomey-Calavi), Tom Ronan (University of Notre Dame), and Andrew Mullen (University of Notre Dame) shown using a geoprobe direct push system to collect water quality samples along the souther Benin coastline. These data are used in the specification and calibration of a groundwater model for flow and transport in Southern Benin. Courtesy  © S. Silliman.