Engineers without Borders

September 5, 2008

We have started to talk a lot of engineers tackling some of the world’s most pressing problems involving health, agriculture, sanitation and education. And the more we dig, we more we find engineers applying their skills, talent and energy to solving humankind’s problems. One such organization I came across recently is the aptly named Engineers without Borders . Allied with the Rotarians (the folks who brought us Easter Seals), EWB has 200 chapters and 170 projects in 41 countries. Check them out.

Watch designnews.com for more information and stories about the work EWB and other organizations like it are doing. And if you know of engineers doing wonderful things, we’d like to know about it to help and and recognize them.

Posted by John Dodge on September 5, 2008 | Comments (2)

April 21, 2009

In response to: Engineers without Borders
dualframes commented:

What about building frame assemblage safety and performance?
That will solve many of the global problems we face daily.
Assemblages, not the materials, fail in tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, earthquakes, etc.
That makes the building, automobile, airplane, oil tanker, levee, bridge, etc; frame assemblages the top-priority issue, and the biggest positive change ever, in living, working, and recreating on the planet!!
You cannot reset a broken bone when your first "solution" to the broken bone is to visit the Dentist/Cosmetic Surgeon!!
I am freely speaking on this topic because I have developed the first successful method of securing building frame assemblages from failing in wind, seismic, and collision force impacts, which also frees you and the Design News Staff to also freely talk about these top-priority issues.
What are you afraid of, your house getting flattend or blown apart by a tornado? Oh, that is what is normal and common today!!
Changing this 'mindset' is a chore, for sure, but with a successful new structural frame assemblage technology, that is financially beneficial from planning through a 100 years of a building's lifespan is worth your attention and assistance!!
Everyone outside of those in lifes of crime benefit from these types of technological breakthroughs, and if you don't buy that,take a quick look at the technologies of electricity, combustion engines, computers, moving pictures, even the wheel, for referencing.
Don't fight this new technology with the support of the Pony Express!!
God Bless and Speed;
Randy Dube, Entrepreneur:
Structural Strap-Nets and Extensions continuous reinforcing building and other structural body-frame assemblage reinforcing and dual-tributary and load-pathed structural frame systems.
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April 21, 2009

In response to: Engineers without Borders
dualframes commented:

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