Technical Leadership. Project Management. Local and International.
The vision of the Dayton Service Engineering Collaborative is to leverage the talents and resources of the Miami Valley engineering community to add value to domestic and international development programs through technical leadership in concert with global partners.
What are we working on now?
Model Home
November 20, 2011The Heart to Honduras (HTH) organization, a collaboration of Hondurans and North Americans, has been constructing housing for the needy in rural Honduras for many years. HTH has recognized the need to evaluate its housing program in order to improve its near-term effectiveness and, perhaps more i...
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Armenta
August 14, 2011Members of DSEC/EWB visited Armenta on August 12, 2011. Upon arrival we visited Pastor Neptali and Armondo, who is President of the Armenta Water Council and Village Vice President. Scott’s relationship with both of these men came through a past bridge project that Scott had lead through his re...
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Caliche
August 14, 2011Caliche is a village of approximately 500 people, located in Central Honduras. Caliche had a mountain spring as a source of water until a 2009 earthquake forced their spring source underground. Currently, the village does not have a clean source of drinking water; they utilize collected rainwat...
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Canchias
August 14, 2011Based on the initial community survey and design calculations performed to date, it is recommended that a Living Water Treatment System (LWTS) by Water Missions International (WMI) and new 5,800 gallon storage tank be installed immediately prior to the existing Corazon Para Honduras (CPH) water t...
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April 27, 2012Education is a key catalyst in the alleviation of systemic poverty worldwide. Most children in Honduras achieve at most a sixth-grade education, which is the limit of government support. Education beyond the sixth grade, while greatly improving career opportunities, is often prohibitively expensive to a family and may require the child to move out of the home to find schooling. A nonprofit organization in Honduras, Canadian Peacemakers International (http://www.cpi-cpf.ca/), is currently providing seventh to ninth grade education via software loaded on the hard drive of a computer. In the program, called Computer Assisted Learning (CAL), students receive lessons and take tests electronically, and teachers submit the results to the government for recognition. The community of ...
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March 26, 2012Over the past year, DSEC and UD have discussed a potential project with Hand to Hand Haiti (HHH) . HHH is a foundation started by Pelege Lareus to address the needs of his home town of Baie‐du‐Mesle, Haiti. While members of DSEC and UD‐ETHOS have been involved with Pelege and his cause for over a year, we are now initiating a formal project to tackle the dire water situation of Baie‐du‐Mesle. The goals of this project are to identify the most appropriate solution for providing reliable, clean water using existing technologies, assist in the community's implementation of the solution, and enable long‐term community maintenance and improvement of the solution. We made an initial visit to Baie-du-Mesle in July 2011 to complete at water feasibility study. During the v...
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Immediate Opportunities for Engagement
Local Partners Wanted: DSEC continues to seek opportunities to serve in technical roles serving alongside local and regional community partners. If you know of a non-profit or governmental organization that has an important vision and the administrative structure to pursue it, please let us know.
Opportunities for Technical Professionals: If you’re a local engineer or technical professional and you desire to make your skill set available on a volunteer basis, please contact us. Get your name on the list – the level of your participation is at your discretion. You don’t have to live in Dayton, as we have folks as far away as China involved.
International Projects Partners Needed: DSEC is intentionally not a fundraising organization. While on the ground learning about other projects, we often come across new projects that need a partners in championing their resolution. If you or your civic group is interested in learning more, please review the projects list and send an email.