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Students at the Colorado School of Mines are looking farther than the front of the classroom. BY LYNNE SHALLCROSS
IN THE BLISTERINGLY hot October heat of Honduras, it wasn't the teary thank you's that showed Heidi Bauer what her engineering help meant to the village of Colinas de Suiza. It was the "bodyguards." Bauer, a graduate student working with the new Colorado School of Mines (CSM) undergraduate humanitarian engineering minor, and her fellow humanitarian engineering students recently won an award for a water and sanitation project they designed for the Honduran village of about 1,600 families.
During their visit to Colinas de Suiza last year, the students were given "bodyguards"-village residents who took the day off from work to watch over the students and make sure they could collect their data without any problems. Considering the high rate of...