My uncle went to Iraq to help rebuild and redesign. He is a civil engineer, project manager.
My cousin is a mechanical engineer with his BS & MS from OSU. He and his wife are currently working for an NGO in Afghanistan, and he is using his expertise in numerous humanitarian aide projects.
The one electrical engineer I know donated time with United Way to raise money. But his engineering skills were not involved.
My co-workers at AEP are involved in various charitable organizations, but none of them directly involve the use of electrical engineers skills.
The research and development department at Liebert takes part in the plant wide blood drive. And an engineer installed a network for computers at school. This helps the school and it shows that he wants to help the school.
I knew a chemical engineer that taught GED classes at the Columbus Urban League.
David Bowles who helps high school students get interested in a career.
I know an engineer that used to be on our school board. He made decisions to better our school and community. Honesty benefits the community.
Dean Kamen: he runs the FIRST robotic competition for high school students. Company designs handicap devices.
Not offhand. But I would consider any engineer/professor who is a faculty advisor for a student organization to be doing this.
Professor Passino: Leadership within ECOS
Prof Passino—he teaches the ECE 481 ethics class. It benefits the students to learn about codes of ethics.
People I worked with did some electrical demonstrations at a local museum. They were electrical & mechanical engineers.
A former co-worker of mine volunteers at a local elementary school to help tutor 5th grade math.
My uncle graduated with a ME degree a few years ago (15–20ish) and upkeeps his daughter's daycare's toys and equipment (toys, computers, etc.).
Yes, I know an engineer who contributed in building of houses for charity club using his engineering skills.
Yes, a man from my church went to Louisiana to help build houses for Katrina victims for a week.
My home inspector told me that he is a professional engineer (I forget his name) and volunteers with Union County Habitat for Humanity. I believe he is a structural engineer, which is handy given the home building process.
I know of organizations that have professional engineers build houses for homeless back in Cleveland; however, these are civil and constructual engineers.
I don't know any engineers off the top of my head that help out the community. I know GE encourages employees to volunteer in the community, but it is for all employees, not just engineers and they usually do tutoring or help building houses, etc.\ through habitat for humanity.
My boss at GE during my co-op rotation in spring. He helps the local community by doing rebuilding projects.
Yes. A lot of engineers that I work with at GE Aviation. Community service fund Free food store Painting etc.
There is a group of engineers and architects that help design buildings for the recreation program in my hometown. As far as I know, the program lasts all summer and is a volunteer program.
Professor Gustafson worked with farmers in regulating electrical current to protect cows. I'd like to think this was community service, but I'm not sure.
Linus Torvalds devloped the Linux operating system as an open source project. His work has benefited many people who can't afford proprietary software.
My father has systematically provided hundreds of free health screenings to employees of AFRL (Air Force Research Labs) across the country. (He is a EE)