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Team Trips

The annual Engineering in Context trip to Honduras provides an opportunity for team members to learn about the context of drinking water infrastructure in Honduras. Although each community is a new context, there are many similarities between communities in Honduras and other resource poor communities throughout the Global South. The trip provides an opportunity to hear the passion and dreams of community members, to see the common infrastructure failure modes associated with traditional engineering approaches, and to see the impact of designing for sustainability. The lessons learned are broadly applicable to infrastructure design regardless of the context. The role of feedback in systematically improving the design of infrastructure is a key insight from the visits to both traditional and AguaClara water treatment plants.
The second major goal of the trip is to transfer new knowledge from the Cornell team to our partners in Honduras. This varies by year, but typically includes new fabrication techniques, new unit processes or new scales of processes.

Location	Trip date	Itinerary	Journals	Contacts	Feedback
Copan, Siguatepeque, Jesus de Otoro, Tamara, Marcala, San Nicolas, Atima	January 2014	Itinerary 2014
Lake Yojoa, Las Vegas, Atima, San Nicolas, Cuatro Comunidades, Tamara, Alauca, Ojojona, Marcala	January 2013	Itinerary 2013
Copan, Atima, Siguatepeque, Tamara, Cuatro Comunidades, Alauca, Marcala	January 2012			Contacts	Feedback
La Ceiba, Atima, La 34, Tamara, Cuatro Comunidades, Agalteca, Marcala	January 2011	itinerary11	journals11	Contacts	Feedback
Copan, Santa Rosa de Copan, Gracias, Tamara, Cuatro Comunidades Agalteca Marcala	January 2010	itinerary10	journals10	Contacts
Copan, Gracias de Lempira, Tamara, Cuatro Comunidades Marcala	January 2009	itinerary09	journals09	Contacts
Tela La 34 Ojojona Tamara Marcala	January 2008	itinerary08		Contacts
Location	trip date	itinerary	journals
Tegucigalpa Copan	January 2004
Tela La 34	March 2005
Tela La 34 El Progreso Ojojona	January 2006
Tela La 34 La Ceiba Ojojona Copan	January 2007	itinerary07	journals07
Tela La 34 El Progreso Ojojona Tamara Marcala	January 2008 2006
Tela La 34	March 2005			itinerary08		January 2009	itinerary09