Camden County Students Assisting Gulf Coast Town
Camden County Students Assisting Gulf Coast Town
October 14, 2005
Cherry Hill resident Dan Miller and Audubon resident Josh Forman
want to assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and they are doing
it in very tangible ways.
Miller, a 21-year-old electrical and computer engineering senior, and Forman, a 21-year-old Rowan University mechanical engineering senior, are part of a Rowan College of Engineering clinic project that is assisting the public school district in Picayune, Miss., in its recovery effort. Close to 80 students and a dozen professors signed on to help onsite doing hands-on work and from New Jersey helping to raise funds for that work.
?I think it?s great. They left it up to us as a clinic project. I think it was pretty cool of the college to do that,? said Miller, a 2002 Cherry Hill East High School graduate, on the opportunity to help.
Dr. John Schmalzel, head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering program, is leading the team. Schmalzel and others have been traveling to the Gulf Coast since early September to lay the groundwork and start the Rowan work, including roofing buildings and rebuilding athletic facilities. Teams of students will visit the area on a one-week, rotating basis, with approval from their professors, to assist in the effort.
?This is a student-led project. It?s faculty supported. We?ve got great people doing this,? said Schmalzel, whose maternal family is from Mississippi. ?That?s the best type of project we can do.?
"It's important that we utilize the skills and connections we have through engineering and outside organizations to best assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina," said Forman, a 2002 Audubon High School graduate.
(The Engineering team welcomes donations to support its efforts. Anyone interested in contributing to the project may contact the Rowan Development Office at 856-256-5410 or send a check made out to the Hurricane Katrina Recovery Clinic Project, Rowan University Foundation, Bole Hall, 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, NJ 08028.)
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Miller, a 21-year-old electrical and computer engineering senior, and Forman, a 21-year-old Rowan University mechanical engineering senior, are part of a Rowan College of Engineering clinic project that is assisting the public school district in Picayune, Miss., in its recovery effort. Close to 80 students and a dozen professors signed on to help onsite doing hands-on work and from New Jersey helping to raise funds for that work.
?I think it?s great. They left it up to us as a clinic project. I think it was pretty cool of the college to do that,? said Miller, a 2002 Cherry Hill East High School graduate, on the opportunity to help.
Dr. John Schmalzel, head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering program, is leading the team. Schmalzel and others have been traveling to the Gulf Coast since early September to lay the groundwork and start the Rowan work, including roofing buildings and rebuilding athletic facilities. Teams of students will visit the area on a one-week, rotating basis, with approval from their professors, to assist in the effort.
?This is a student-led project. It?s faculty supported. We?ve got great people doing this,? said Schmalzel, whose maternal family is from Mississippi. ?That?s the best type of project we can do.?
"It's important that we utilize the skills and connections we have through engineering and outside organizations to best assist the victims of Hurricane Katrina," said Forman, a 2002 Audubon High School graduate.
(The Engineering team welcomes donations to support its efforts. Anyone interested in contributing to the project may contact the Rowan Development Office at 856-256-5410 or send a check made out to the Hurricane Katrina Recovery Clinic Project, Rowan University Foundation, Bole Hall, 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, NJ 08028.)
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