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By the summer of 2010 we will likely need 4 AguaClara Engineers with 2 AE working with each of two regional partners. The goal here is to add one more regional partner, probably in a country neighboring Honduras. In order to grow the AE program we need to do several things. First, we need to increase the population of students who have the training and skills required for AE. The skills and training including
• some Spanish proficiency (to be supplemented with in country language study)
• AguaClara technology expertise (plant hydraulics and unit processes)
Only a small fraction of Cornell graduates from combined B.S., M.S., and M.Eng. will have some Spanish proficiency and be interested in a term as an AE. Thus to grow this program we need to either increase the yield or the pool or a combination of the two. Growth of the pool suggests increasing the number of students on the AguaClara team, and that is a possibility. In particular, it would be beneficial to increase the number of students in the M.Eng. and M.S. program to increase the level of expertise on the team.
One possible way to grow the pool and increase the yield for the AE program is to develop a scholarship program.
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Another option would be to offer AguaClara team members who graduate with a B.S. in Engineering the option of 2 years as AguaClara Engineers followed by a full tuition scholarship as an M. Eng. in Environmental Engineering.
The annual cost of the two programs (AE graduate program plus 2 M.S. Ph.D. students) is approximately $320,000*.
- need to confirm these costs
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