IRES: Toward Sustainable Water and Sanitation Infrastructure

IRES：迈向可持续的水和卫生基础设施

• 批准号: 1065050
• 负责人: Karl Linden
• 金额: $ 14.94万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-15 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1065050&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRES; Toward; Sustainable; Water; Sanitation

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.

该美国-秘鲁奖项将支持科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的六名本科生和十三名研究生在卡尔·林登博士的指导下，在秘鲁进行为期三年的实地研究，另外两名美国教师导师和几名导师。秘鲁科学家和学生将参与该项目，由秘鲁亚马逊国立大学的 Zulema Sevillano Bartra 和圣巴勃罗天主教大学的 Juán José Milón Guzmán 共同组织。该项目将让学生有机会通过比较“市场-”来确定在发展中社区创建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此类策略，该项目本质上是跨学科的，它融合了工程学、社会科学、人类学和经济学领域。在秘鲁境内两个不同的地理区域（湿地与干地）进行，具有不同的社会经济因素。该 IRES 将汇集来自美国和秘鲁的不同研究人员和研究生群体，研究结果将影响工程设计以及秘鲁。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，该项目还将涉及主要讲西班牙语和英语的高中生。半人马座高中以少数族裔为基础的预科工程项目科罗拉多州拉斐特（CHS）的学生将通过各种交流平台进行参与，包括互动网络、电话会议、社交媒体和课堂演示。该奖项由国际科学与工程办公室和化学系支持。工程局生物工程、环境和运输系统。