This past summer the University of Missouri-Rolla's chapter of Engineers Without Borders traveled to two destinations in Bolivia to apply their engineering skills to local problems. The first destination was a small boarding school in the Amazon. There the problem consisted of finding a clean source of water. The second location was in Inca Katurapi, a small village in the Andes where there had never been latrines. UMR students and faculty developed composting latrines for the community in an attempt to help reduce the infant mortality rate. What follows is the story of that adventure.

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Throughout our history, the University of Missouri-Rolla has developed a reputation for graduating leaders who have made their mark in the world. As discoverers, entrepreneurs, explorers and educators, UMR alumni have built the nation’s infrastructure, designed products and systems that have improved our quality of life, explored the inner world of atomic physics and the far reaches of space, and, in the words of one early graduate (R.L. Grabill, class of 1878) worked to “unravel the mysteries and solve the problems which nature lays before us.”

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As NPR reported this summer, "Teens at explosives camp learn how to use dynamite to obliterate watermelons and blast rocks from the depths of mine shafts."

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