Vote for the two (2) projects that are the most appealing to you. We will post the results later, once we have received a fair number of votes. Think about what you really want to work on and remember that this might be something to include on your resume.

In this link you can find the description of each research project:

Below is the link to take the survey:

If you haven't heard anything about Dakini Valley, in a nutshell: It's a 150 acre site that was a former cattle ranch. The property is now owned by a Buddhist church and they are running a no-kill animal shelter under the name Tara's Babies (www.tarasbabies.org). The site is about 1 1/2 hours from Payson (about half of the drive from there is dirt road). It's completely off the grid, with solar for electric (with a back up propane generator because the solar panels and batteries aren't enough at the moment), well water for drinking, septic, and a small permanent stream which has been used in the past for irrigating crops (they hopefully still have water rights to this).

So far, the tentative arrangement is:

- The Phoenix Professionals Chapter overseeing overall development of the property, more permanent dog shelter and volunteer housing construction, and mentoring of the student chapters.
- ASU taking the lead on designing and building an improved solar and/or wind electricity generation system so that the propane generator can be shut down for good.
- NAU taking the lead in water related components: a new well, water tank, waste-water disposal/treatment, and irrigation/micro-

The Airplane

A programmer and an engineer were sitting next to each other on an airplane. The programmer leans over to the engineer and asks if he wants to play a fun game. The engineer just wants to sleep so he politely declines, turns away, and tries to sleep. The programmer persists and explains that it's a real easy game. He explains, "I'll ask a question and if you don't know the answer you pay me $5. Then you ask me a question and if I don't know the answer I'll pay you $5." Again, the engineer politely declines and tries to sleep.

The programmer, now somewhat agitated, says, "OK, if you don't know the answer, you pay me $5, and if I don't know the answer, I'll pay you $50!" Now, that got the engineer's attention, so he agrees to the game. The programmer asks the first question, "what is the distance from the earth to the moon?" The engineer doesn't say a word and just hands the programmer $5.

Now, it's the engineer's turn. He asks the programmer, "what goes up a hill with three legs and comes down on four?" The programmer looks at him with a puzzled look, takes out his laptop computer, looks through all his references and after about an hour wakes the engineer and hands him $50. The engineer politely takes the $50, turns away, and tries to return to sleep.

The programmer, a little miffed, asks, "Well? What's the answer to the question?" Without a word, the engineer reaches into his wallet, hands $5 to the programmer and returns to sleep.

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Hello everyone, today we have our last fundraiser event at Tims Toyota Center. It will be a great opportunity for us to raise some funds as well as have a great time at it. So come and enjoy The Moody Blues as they play their greatest hits. If you do not know their music here is a link to one of their videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhEhal1vGZ8&feature=related


Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Engineers Without Borders-ERAU will be helping Steping Stones, an organization providing emergency shelter and support services to women and children who are victims of dometic violence, sexual assault in West Yavapai County. A fundraiser will be held on April 11, 2009 at which professors and other university organizations will help with fun events for everyone. The event will have a soccer game, concessions, raffles, a dunk tank, and many other fun activities. EWB will provide their support to help spread the work across ERAU, Prescott, an Prescott Valley. 

Please choose a color for your EWB T-shirts.

Our first fundraiser will be at Tim's Toyota Center on Saturday February 21. We will have more info later including a possible party/food drive that day.