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Students Continue to Explore the World


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echE undergraduates continue to make an impact beyond the Carnegie Mellon campus through exciting


study-abroad initiatives. Many students are taking courses or doing research abroad, while others are joining the fast-growing ISLE program (International Service-Learning Engineering). In fact, more than 40 MechE students have participated in these study-abroad efforts during the 2011-12 academic year. On May 12-29, Adjunct Faculty Bob Reid led 18


undergraduates on a trip to Manila, where they helped poverty-stricken people address ever-present water issues by installing toilets, building an underground pumping sta- tion, and reinforcing houses to prepare for the annual flood season. Students also worked with local orphans, teach- ing them basic engineering principles. The Carnegie Mellon delegation won a Good Samaritan


Award from a local municipal official, in recognition of their humanitarian efforts. Earlier in 2011, Reid led an additional student trip to Jamaica. The Department is currently assessing the possibility of a future ISLE trip to Peru during Spring Break 2012. These trips are sponsored by the generous financial support provided to MechE by Phillip Mervis (B.S.1985)


and his wife Sheryl Facktor, who have been donors for more than 26 years.


In the Spring, Summer,


and Fall semesters, 18 MechE students traveled abroad to take advantage of academic and multicultural opportuni- ties. Their destinations included China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Korea, Spain, and the United Kingdom. Elisha Clayton, a senior majoring in Mechanical Engi- neering, along with Engineering and Public Policy, traveled to New Zealand to study ecology and sustainability. At the end of her trip, she wrote, “Over the past five weeks, I have been to over 20 accommodations. I have become a pro at packing up, unpacking, moving, and settling in. I have been up nonstop, from sun up to sun down, for the last 35 days. I have learned so much from this experience! I can’t wait to apply everything to my life back at home when reality hits again.”•


New AIAA Student Chapter Formed T


his summer, a new student chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) was


formed at Carnegie Mellon. With 31,000 members, AIAA is the world’s largest technical society dedicated to the global aerospace profession. Department Head Nadine Aubry led this


effort to establish an AIAA chapter, and will be the group’s Faculty Advisor. Already more than 40 students have joined.


The chapter’s officers for 2011-12 are all MechE students: • Jayon Wang, Chair • Emerson Mello Silva, Vice Chair • Ketaki Shashank, Secretary • Krystina Calfo, Treasurer


“With the growing interest in aerospace among our students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering— and across Carnegie Mellon—I believed it was critical to form an AIAA chapter to encourage that interest and enable greater collaboration among students,” says Aubry. “The enthusiasm among our student members is already high, and I anticipate great contributions from this new organization.”


The Spring 2012 edition of Carnegie Mech will cover more developments regarding the new AIAA student chapter.•


Nadine Aubry will be Faculty Advisor to the new AIAA chapter.


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