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Peace Corps Master's International

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Student Projects

Trees in Agricultural Systems (FW5710) and Community Planning and Analysis (FW5770) students put together web sites on topics of their choice.

Women and Development

Water and Sanitation/Engineering

Drinking Water in Developing Countries
Solar Water Treatment
Estimating Design Discharge for Small Ungaged Watersheds Using the SCS Method
Water Purification
Wind Power
Hurricane Resistant Housing Design for Central America and the Caribbean
Pit Latrines I
Pit Latrines II
Springboxes I
Springboxes II
Well Construction
Low and No Tech Rural Mapping
Wastewater Treatment in the Tropics
Grey water
Solar Cooking (Number 1)
Solar Cookers (Number 2)
Oil Seed Processing
Improving Air Quality degraded by home cooking
Improving the Quality of Brick Manufacturing
Rain Erosion
Rower pumps
Not developed by Michigan Tech Peace Corps students, but recommended by MTU geology professor and RPCV Philippines Charles Young.
Solar Greenhouses

Household/Income Generation

Soap Making I
Soap Making II
Oil Seed Processing
Cereamine
A special set of information put together by Brock Emerson. Cereamine is a high-energy flour made from corn, beans, rice, millet, and peanuts. The flour is used to make a warm porridge similar to Cream of Wheat. Africans in the south of Mauritania, many of whom are farmers, grow the basic ingredients for Cereamine
Improving Air Quality degraded by home cooking
Making Soy Milk

Environmental Concerns