About Us

Mission Statement

Our mission is to engage HMC students in improving environmental, social, and economic sustainability worldwide by

• Fostering multidisciplinary relationships across the HMC campus, the Claremont community, and the Consortium to increase awareness.
• Researching HMC current practices (i.e. water, electricity, recycling) and recommending sustainable solutions at HMC through coordinated student, faculty, and staff actions.
• Providing a forum for environmental sustainability discussions.
• Partnering technical and educational resources to design sustainable technological solutions for international development projects where need has been locally identified.

This is carried out by:

• Coordinating educational events and extending the ESW-MOSS message to the public, via presentations, personal meetings, lecture series, etc.
• Conducting awareness efforts on campus regarding sustainability and global impact through dorm competitions and service projects.
• Organizing projects to help developing communities domestically and abroad in part by facilitating the integration of ESW-identified projects into courses offered by the college like E4 and Clinic and encouraging extracurricular involvement.
• Directly involving students in the implementation of their solutions by providing opportunities to travel abroad during school breaks.

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History

The Harvey Mudd Chapter of Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) was founded in the Fall of 2006 by Annika Eberle and Autumn Petros-Good. The club's purpose was to promote sustainability in developing nations through service projects that could utilize the resources available at HMC. Under the guidance of faculty advisor Susan Martonosi, the club began holding regular meetings and pursuing the possibility of a service project in the village of Ngomano, Kenya.

Later in the same year, Mudders Organizing for Sustainability Solutions (MOSS) was founded by several other students. The purpose of the group was to evaluate practices at HMC and design solutions to help the college to be more sustainable. Working with the Facilities and Maintenance department, Dining Services, and the Dean of Students, MOSS identified areas in which the college could be more environmental and pursued them.

Since both clubs promoted sustainability, and many of the members overlapped, the two clubs began meeting together in the fall or 2007. The clubs merged to become ESW/MOSS in the fall of 2008.