_Hello everyone hope you had a good Christmas.

Sorry for the lateness of this email, this week we will be meeting at 6pm on Tuesday in Boyd Orr 506. Our president will be putting on a workshop looking at the issues of being disabled in the developing world.

GCID are running a work shop in the 31st of January for anyone who is preparing for fieldwork, an overseas project  or has an interest in international development. This will run from 10am to 1pm, see attached file for details.

On to other business there are three competitions that you may be interested in. firstly Arup's resilient Cities competition, this competition is for university students  to study part of their city and decide whether it is resistant to shocks (flooding drought etc), four people will get summer placements with Arup, for a better explanation see the link
http://climate-resilient-cities.org

Secondly is the Bosch Horizons award which encourages young people to consider the role that technology and engineering play in everyday life. With essay questions focusing on the Olympics and green technology, for further details see, http://www.bosch.co.uk/technologyhorizons/

Finally is the Tattarillo International Award this is open to Dissertations / Thesis’s and final year projects that looked in to appropriate technology three main prizes of £1000 are up for grabs. See the link for further details http://www.isf-firenze.org/premio-tattarillo-tattarillo-award/the-award-il-premio

Callum
 
 
Happy new year! 

Here at EWB we hope you enjoyed the holidays, although we realise there's nothing quite like coming back to uni for 9 o'clock lectures.

Anyway, to brighten things up a bit, we're pleased to announce that our first meeting of the new term will go ahead TONIGHT at 6pm, same Tuesday slot as last year. Unfortunately there's a room clash this week only, so just for tonight you'll find us in Boyd Orr LT E (room 611, 6th floor).

This first meeting will simply be used to plan what we'll aim to do this semester, so while there won't be any entertainment provided, it is the perfect opportunity to have your say, tell us about something cool you want to build, suggest a topic to focus on etc.

If you can't make it along tonight for whatever reason, don't panic, just drop suggestions, cool web links, ideas, abuse, whatever into an email and send it back to us at glasgow@ewb-uk.org - we'll make as much of it come true as possible. Except maybe the abuse.

Hope to see you tonight!


John
 
 
Well hello again we have a busy week coming up starting on Monday with a lecture from Andrew Lamb the CEO of Engineers without borders UK this will run between 1 and 2 pm in the post grad suit in the James Watt South building (room 433).

Next up is the social with the University of Strathclyde engineers without borders society which will also be on the Monday the 10th , some of us will be meeting at hill head underground station at 5.30 and heading over to the counting house in George square for 6.15. Could I ask that every one brings three pounds to pay the deposit on the tables which you will get back at the end.

Now to Tuesday we will be running a stall at the Internship fair in the university to promote EWB's placements as well as the society so come along help out or just have a look. More information here.

Finally our weekly meeting will be hosted by Iza one of our training coordinators, concerning global water issues and arsenic groundwater contamination in Bangladesh. Iza is going to give two presentations describing both of these matters, followed by a group exercise, so it will be both informative and interactive. This will run at 6pm in the Boyd Orr Lecture Theatre C (5th floor) the same room as before.