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Engineering World Health occupies a unique niche in that no other organization exists focusing on biomedical engineering education. They offer knowledge exchange and training of students/technicians from both the developed and the developing world in the service of improving health care delivery in the developing world. The use of a two sided branch program within the organization offers distinct training opportunities not available through any other program.
The student programs raise awareness on campuses of health care challenges in the developing world by providing support and advice to members who wish to evaluate and repair medical equipment donated to developing world hospitals, design appropriate technologies and the invaluable experience of traveling to developing countries to provide engineering support to local hospitals and schools. The Engineering World Health design competition is also available exclusively to chapter members. Currently EWH is working to expand the [http://www.ewh.org/programs/summer-institute Summer Institute]. The Summer Institute is a 2 month study abroad program which places students from the developed world and places them in hospitals in the developing world. After 4 weeks of language and technical training, they spend 4 weeks working as biomedical equipment technicians. They are working to make this life-changing experience available to more students by developing programs in more countries and reaching out to more universities.
The BMET training program fulfills another unique need by creating professional training programs to empower developing nations to solve in-country health crisis with sustainable program initiatives.
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= Impact Achieved For Students and Campus<br/> =
