University of South Carolina/Mapúa Institute of Technology
Country:
Philippines
Award Date:
1999
Award Amount:
$100,000.00
Cost Share:
$149,796.00
Other Partners:
This partnership collaborated with industry, government, and NGOs to develop community involvement and provide graduate environmental engineering education for the management of natural resources. The partners 1) designed and implementated an M.S. degree in environmental engineering to provide state-of-the-art graduate environmental education at Mapúa, 2) incorporated principles of sustainable development into existing undergraduate engineering curricula, and 3) created an Office of Research Promotion and Coordination to manage research facilities and contracts and coordinate research and funding activities. The University of South Carolina donated books and journals to Mapúa Tech to support the new M.S. program and research efforts. Outreach activities were a strong component of the partnership, with partners holding in-house and national seminars on environmental engineering and sustainable development for 841 host country nationals.