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Delivering Sustainable & Appropriate Solutions to Developing

Presented by Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy at Westminster College

February 9, 2009

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The Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy's Ambassador John Price and Marcia Price World Affairs Lecture Series, in partnership with
Westminster College and the American Express Weldon J. Taylor Executive Lecture Series, presents "Delivering Sustainable & Appropriate Solutions to Developing Communities" by Dr. Bernard Amadei, Fouding President of Engineers Without Borders, and a 2007 co-recipient of the Heinz Award for the Environment.

An estimated two billion additional people will populate the Earth in the next 20 years, most of them in developing or underdeveloped countries. Occurring across the board, from small remote communities to large urban areas, this growth will create unprecedented demands for basic human needs such as food, water, housing, and medical care and for basic infrastructure needs such as building materials, transportation, energy, telecommunications, waste disposal, and environmental cleanup. Hence, the role of internationally responsible engineers and scientists will be critical in fulfilling those demands at various scales, mostly in the developing world.

Dr. Bernard Amadei is Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the Founding President of Engineers Without Borders-USA and co-founder of the Engineers Without Borders-International network. The activities of EWB-USA range from the construction of sustainable systems that developing communities can own and operate without external assistance, to empowering such communities by enhancing local, technical, managerial, and entrepreneurial skills.