IRES: Toward Sustainable Water and Sanitation Infrastructure

这项美国-秘鲁奖学金将资助博尔德科罗拉多大学的六名本科生和十三名研究生在卡尔林登博士的指导下在秘鲁开展为期三年的实地研究。另外两名美国教师导师和几名秘鲁科学家和学生将参与该项目。该计划由秘鲁亚马逊国立大学的Zulema Sevillano Bartra，圣巴勃罗天主教大学的Juán José Milón Guzmán和水计划服务（秘鲁亚马逊环境保护民间协会）的Marcos Oversluijs Vasquez共同组织。该项目将使学生有机会通过比较“基于市场”和“基于慈善”的方法，确定导致在发展中社区建立可持续水和卫生基础设施的关键因素。该提案的目标是通过假设驱动的研究来评估这些战略。该项目是跨学科的性质，它融合了工程学，社会科学，人类学和经济学领域。研究将在秘鲁境内两个不同的地理区域（湿区和干区）进行，这两个区域的社会经济因素各不相同，IRES将汇集来自美国和秘鲁的各种研究人员和研究生。研究结果将影响工程设计，并为社会学，人类学，公共卫生，地理学和商业领域提供有价值的数据。学生将有机会通过科学探究进行文化和教育交流。此外，该项目将涉及高中学生在大部分讲西班牙语和少数民族为基础的工程预科课程在半人马座高中（CHS）在拉斐特，科罗拉多。学生将通过各种交流平台，包括互动网络，电话会议，社交媒体和课堂演示参与。 该奖项由国际科学与工程办公室和工程局化学，生物工程，环境和运输系统司支持。

This US-Peru award will support six undergraduate and thirteen graduate students from the University of Colorado at Boulder, under the direction of Dr. Karl Linden, to carry out field-based research in Peru for three years. Two other US faculty mentors and several Peruvian scientists and students will be involved in the project. The program is co-organized by Zulema Sevillano Bartra from the National University of the Peruvian Amazon, Juán José Milón Guzmán from Universidad Católica San Pablo, and Marcos Oversluijs Vasquez from Water Program Service (Civil Association for Conservation of the Peruvian Amazon Environment). The project will give students the opportunity to identify key factors that lead to the creation of sustainable water and sanitation infrastructure in developing communities by comparing 'market-based' to 'charity-based' approaches. The goal of the proposal is to evaluate such strategies through hypothesis-driven research. The project is interdisciplinary in nature and it merges the fields of engineering, social sciences, anthropology and economics. Research will be conducted in two distinct geographical regions within Peru (wet vs dry) with different socio-economic factors.This IRES will bring together a diverse community of researchers and graduate students from the United States and Peru. Research results will impact engineering design as well as provide valuable data to the fields of sociology, anthropology, public health, geography, and business. Students will have the opportunity for cultural and educational exchange through scientific inquiry. In addition, the project will involve high school students in the largely Spanish-speaking and minority-based pre-engineering program at Centaurus High School (CHS) in Lafayette, Colorado. Students will be engaged through a variety of communication platforms including interactive networking, teleconferences, social media and in-class presentations. This award is supported by the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems of the Directorate of Engineering.