@article{db2c475072854ca6b9dec9f7548a4183,
title = "Offering engineering students global perspective through experiential learning project in wind energy and sustainability",
abstract = "Students from Princeton University partnered with students from the American University in Cairo in a three-week intensive hands-on field experience in Egypt. The project was to assemble, install, and test a wind mill-driven pump used for irrigation and to survey communities across Egypt in the Delta and Red Sea coast to assess water needs in these communities. The course offered a perspective on sustainable development in Egypt followed by water and energy resource challenges in Egypt's diverse geographic areas. Students assembled a wind pump and installed it at the American University in Cairo for testing prior to installation at El Heiz, a desert oasis community in the Western Desert. The students were selected from diverse backgrounds in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Operations Research and Financial Engineering, and learned the value of having diverse teams address engineering problems in a truly global context. This paper presents the case study including lessons learned in implementation of this experiential learning field project.",
author = "Lamyaa El-Gabry and Martina Jaskolski",
note = "Funding Information: Funding for this project was provided through a grant (Bartlett Family Fund for Innovation and International Collaboration). The grant was for approximately $34,000 and covered cost of equipment, shipping, travel and living expenses, and a stipend for students for whom this was a paid internship. Funding Information: This paper summarizes the approach of and experiences gained through the three-week long AUC Princeton Joint Summer Internship hosted by The American University in Cairo (AUC) in July 2018 with a group of nine students from Princeton University and AUC. The program{\textquoteright}s theme was engineering solutions for remote communities, and this first edition of the joint program, funded by the Bartlett Family Fund, focused on wind powered pumping. Through a mix of theoretical and practical activities, the program was an innovative approach to implementing sustainability education at higher education level. Funding Information: The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support provided by the Bartlett Family Fund administered through Princeton University. We would also like to acknowledge the research and technical expertise of Hassan El Husseini (American University in Cairo), Michael Vocaturo (Princeton University), and Douglas Nix (FreeWater Technologies, Ltd), which was critical to the mission and accomplishments of the project. Finally, we would like to acknowledge the students who took part in the project whose passion, commitment, and flexibility made the project a success; they are: Farah Seifeldin, Lena Abdulhafez, Abdallah Aly, Abdelhakim Khaled, and Hussein Seoudi from the American University in Cairo and Nick Nickelson, Lencer Ogutu, Robbie Cohen, and Sierra Castaneda from Princeton University.",
year = "2019",
month = oct,
doi = "10.1115/1.4044205",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "141",
journal = "Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power",
issn = "0742-4795",
publisher = "American Society of Mechanical Engineers(ASME)",
number = "10",
}