October 18, 2008 (9:00 am to 5:00 pm)
Boston University, College of Arts & Sciences (CAS)
725 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston MA
Many
of us are fortunate to live in a relatively secure environment where we
can pursue education and dreams. Far away from most of us - in Africa, or
even close to home like New Orleans in the United States or Sichuan in
China, where catastrophes strike recently, there are tremendous needs for
humanitarian aids. Engineers can play an active role in bringing hope,
relieving pain, restoring livelihood, and accelerating economic progress
in these areas through appropriate use of technology.
IEEE
aims to develop a platform to create awareness among the younger engineers
and students on how we can use our engineering knowledge and skills to
bless the communities. Therefore, IEEE partners with a number of
organizations, such as EWB-USA and UN Foundation to put together a 1-day
workshop. At the end of the workshop, attendees will be more informed on
how humanitarian organizations use technologies to positively impact the
world we live in. Eventually, we hope attendees will obtain a more
holistic understanding of how they can play a part in humanitarian
efforts, and even be inspired to do so at the end of the workshop.
We
invite all those passionate and interested to join us in this pioneering
initiative. The workshop is free for all IEEE or EWB-USA members. $10 fee
for non-member’s early registration. Anyone who registers before September
21, 2008, will be eligible to win one of the ten mysterious gifts.
Registration closes on October 11, 2008.
For more information and registration for the workshop,
please visit
www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/1/gold or e-mail
humanitarian@ieee.org
