Global Experiences
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Zak Pasternak: Student Report from 2015 Alternative Winter Break in Peru
After touring around the city, we were ready to work on our service project the next day. We built mud-brick stoves for families in a village about an hour’s drive east of Cusco in the Urubamba Valley. The stoves had chimneys which allowed the smoke to clear the room and leave through the roof.
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Nick Kivi: Student Report from 2015 Alternative Winter Break in Peru
The trip was based around working in rural communities to build ceramic stoves with chimney designs. The chimneys would help alleviate the smoke that gets trapped in houses during cooking, which has caused a tremendous increase in reported lung cancer cases. By helping communities build stoves, the hope is that long-term cancer rates and other…
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Sam Brown: Student Report from 2015 Alternative Winter Break in Peru
Sam Brown’s trip report about the Tickle College of Engineering Global Initiatives’ Alternative Winter Break in Cuzco, Peru, building cook stoves.
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Cody Winstead: Student Report from 2015 Alternative Winter Break in Peru
Cody Winstead’s trip report about the Tickle College of Engineering Global Initiatives’ Alternative Winter Break in Cuzco, Peru, building cook stoves.
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Trip Report: Alternative Winter Break in Peru
On December 11, 2015, Tickle College of Engineering Global Initiatives embarked on its largest Alternative Winter Break to Cuzco, Peru, with twenty students.
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Taylor Weiskittel: Student Report from 2015 Alternative Fall Break in Ecuador
Ecuador was a fortunate placement for my first out of country experience. Being sequestered for two years in a chemical engineering program makes you a little crazy. You are wrapped up in the unsaid competition of having the best grades, coolest research, or the most high profile co–op. You always are being driven to do…
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Annabel Large: Student Report from 2015 Alternative Fall Break in Ecuador
I’ve stayed in the east Tennessee and west Virginia area all my life and have never done much traveling. When I expressed interest in flying 2,500 miles away and staying with a group of complete strangers in a foreign country, my parents thought I had gone nuts. However, when I saw the flyer for the…
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Trip Report: Alternative Fall Break in Ecuador
Read Annabel Large’s report on the Ecuador trip » Read Taylor Weiskittel’s report on the Ecuador trip » The College of Engineering’s Alternative Fall Break took place August 9–16, 2015, in Quito, Ecuador. International Coordinator Judith Mallory accompanied students Annabel Large and Taylor Weiskittel, chemical engineering majors, Heath Skelton, electrical engineering major, and Erika Youngquist,…
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Student Reports: Kelsey Henderson, Antibes, France, Summer 2015
From my first year of high school French on, I was determined to see France for myself. I did not foresee this hope coming to fruition in part due to my status as an engineering student and in part, because I had no college language experience and therefore did not qualify for most programs in…
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Student Reports: Lana Bednarczyk, University of Cambridge, Summer 2015
If you would have asked me as an incoming college student about my future study-abroad plans, I can almost guarantee that I would not have said I wanted to go to England. They speak English there (obviously), so it’s probably just like America, right? Wrong! When my Honors advisor mentioned that I still needed to…