Alumni News
Alumni Funding Supports Service-Learning Trips ISLE Program Takes MechE Students Around the World
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hanks to generous financial support provided by Phillip Mervis (B.S. 1985) and his wife Sheryl Facktor—donors for more than 26 years—a number of MechE students are traveling to Jamaica and the Philippines this semester to take advantage of service-learning opportunities. Last May, the Department kicked off its new International Service-Learning Engineering (ISLE) initiative with a three-week trip to the Philippines. Adjunct Professor Robert Reid accompanied 22 Carnegie Mellon students to Manila to teach engineering concepts to children and rebuild homes destroyed by natural disasters (see Carnegie Mech, Fall 2010). Based on the success of this trip—and with funding from Phillip and Sheryl— two additional ISLE trips are occurring this Spring. Seventeen undergraduate students, one graduate student leader, and Professor Reid traveled to Jamaica in March. (Photos are shown at right and below.) Reid will return to Manila in May with 23 undergraduate students and one graduate student leader. “We are so grateful for the financial support we receive from our alumni, which allows us to participate in these innovative educational efforts,” says Department Head Nadine Aubry. “Sending our students to other parts of the world prepares them for today’s global, multi-cultural workplace—and introduces them to the significant challenges they will face as engineers. We are delighted that our gradu- ates support these kinds of leading-edge student experiences.” Phillip and Sheryl encourage other alumni to contribute to the ISLE program and other critical Department initiatives which enable MechE to remain at the forefront of engineering education.•
A New Focus on Results With this issue of Carnegie Mech, the Department is eliminating its printed list of donations in order to showcase the real-world results of generous gifts from our alumni. For more information on giving, visit http://
www.cmu.edu/alumni/giving/ or call 412-268-2021. Gifts earmarked for the Mechanical Engineering Development Fund directly support departmental initiatives.•
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