Trine University seniors work on building a solar panel for Haiti.
From left, Trine University seniors Cameron Crenshaw from Shelbyville, Indiana, Emily
Dunn from Doylestown, Ohio, and Chris Laudenschlager of Walton, Indiana, work with
solar panels in the Foundry Lab in the university’s Jim and Joan Bock Center for Innovation
and Biomedical Engineering. The three are designing a mount and control system that
will be used by Haitian Christian Outreach on its hospital in Peredo, Haiti. Working through the Campus Christian House at the university, the team will travel with six other Trine students and alumni
to Haiti from March 11-18 to develop and provide HCO with a manual to purchase, construct
and install solar panels on an expansion to the hospital. The group also will work
on the addition. Later this year, other volunteer groups will begin mounting 46 solar
panels in order to provide clean power to the HCO campus. (Photo by Dean Orewiler)
The director of Trine University’s pre-health professions and direct entry programs was part of a team that presented updates to best practices for health professions advisors and institutions at a national conference.
A faculty member in Trine University’s Allen School of Engineering and Computing has received a $5,000 grant to write an open education resource (OER) textbook for a new class to be offered beginning in the fall.