Student Projects

Trees in Agricultural Systems (FW5710) and Community Planning and Analysis (FW5770) students put together web sites on topics of their choice.

• Forestry and Agriculture
• Women and Development
• Water and Sanitation / Engineering
• Household / Income Generation
• Environmental Concerns

Forestry and Agriculture

• Bees
• Teak
• Pitcher irrigation
• Microlivestock
• Maize Intercropping in East Africa
• Pest Management in North West Africa
• Microcatchments / water harvesting
• Five Green Manure Crops
• Moringa oleifera ... the mulitpurpose wonder tree
• Silvopastoral Agroforestry Systems
• Solar Cooking
• Food Preservation
• Oil Seed Processing
• Apples in Central Asia
• Rain Erosion
• Vermiculture
• Composting in Wet Environments
• Composting in Arid Environments
• Solar Greenhouses
• Staple Crops of West Africa
• Alley Cropping
• Women's Projects with Groundnuts in West Africa
• Living Fences

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Women and Development

• Women's Literacy and Development
• Women's Projects with Groundnuts in West Africa

Water and Sanitation / Engineering

• Drinking Water in Developing Countries
• Evaporative Cooling Systems
• Solar Water Treatment
• Estimating Design Discharge for Small Ungaged Watersheds Using the SCS Method
• Water Purification
• Wind Power
• Hurricane Resistant Housing Design for Central America and the Caribbean
• Pit Latrines I
• Pit Latrines II
• Springboxes I
• Springboxes II
• Well Construction
• Low and No Tech Rural Mapping
• Wastewater Treatment in the Tropics
• Grey water
• Solar Cooking (Number 1)
• Solar Cookers (Number 2)
• Oil Seed Processing
• Improving Air Quality degraded by home cooking
• Improving the Quality of Brick Manufacturing
• Rain Erosion
• Rower pumps
  Not developed by Michigan Tech Peace Corps students, but recommended by MTU geology professor and RPCV Philippines Charles Young.
• Solar Greenhouses

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Household / Income Generation

• Soap Making I
• Soap Making II
• Oil Seed Processing
• Cereamine
  A special set of information put together by Brock Emerson. Cereamine is a high-energy flour made from corn, beans, rice, millet, and peanuts. The flour is used to make a warm porridge similar to Cream of Wheat. Africans in the south of Mauritania, many of whom are farmers, grow the basic ingredients for Cereamine
• Improving Air Quality degraded by home cooking
• Making Soy Milk

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Environmental Concerns

• Deforestation in Honduras
• Erosion in Bolivia
• Deforestation in Siberia
• Madagascar and Soil Erosion

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