Engineers Without Borders–USA Founder Bernard Amadei Named an Engineering Newsmaker

BOULDER, Colo., Feb. 25, 2009 — Bernard Amadei, founder of Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA), has been named one of 25 newsmakers for 2008 by ENR (Engineering News Record) magazine, a publication of The McGraw-Hill Cos., New York City.

What began as an overseas field trip for a handful of Amadei’s engineering students in 2001, has grown exponentially into a non-profit organization of more than 12,000 members comprising students, faculty and professional engineers. Their mission is to partner with developing communities to improve the quality of life by designing and building sustainable infrastructure systems that can be owned and operated without external assistance. Currently, 400 such projects are under way worldwide.