Engineers Without Borders USA

Rocky Mountain Professional Chapter

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Engineers Without Borders USA

Rocky Mountain Professional Chapter

ABout Us

The Rocky Mountain Professional Chapter of EWB-USA is a group of diverse individuals, who come together around a common purpose. These professionals have included engineers, scientists, policy specialists, attorneys, fundraisers, marketing specialists, returned Peace Corps volunteers, public health practitioners, language specialists, project managers, and more.

Our mission is to build a better world through engineering projects that empower communities to meet their basic human needs and equip leaders to solve the world’s most pressing challenges.

Community Involvement

Every EWB-RMP project starts with the initiative of the community requesting assistance. RMP’s work begins in developing relationships with our community and NGO partners.

Design & Implementation

RMP works closely with our partners to design appropriate solutions. After these designs are peer-reviewed by expert members of EWB-USA, local community volunteers construct the project with RMP oversight.

Success

The community takes full ownership of the sustainable project as well as responsibility for all operation and maintenance. EWB-RMP and our in-country NGO partners monitor the system and provide guidance to the community if needed in the years following the completion of construction.

Leadership

Email the executive board at officers@ewb-rmp.org.

Leadership

Email the executive board at officers@ewb-rmp.org.

Featured

Jason Schneider - Chapter President

Jason graduated from Iowa State University in 2005 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He has worked at US Engineering Construction for the past 17 years and is currently an Operations Director and has his PE in Colorado in mechanical. He oversees a portfolio of mechanical, plumbing and sheet metal projects across the Front Range in Colorado with a focus on education and institutional projects that are both new construction and complex renovations. Jason lives in Lafayette with his wife, Angie, and two dogs, Fry and Leela. He enjoys camping, skiing, fly fishing and the outdoors in general. Travel is a passion and he loves to experience new cultures and meet new people. Jason has been with the RM chapter of EWB since early 2022.

John Meyer - Chapter Vice President & Responsible Engineer In Charge

John joined EWB RMP in 2017. He is a water treatment process engineer with Carollo Engineers in Broomfield, CO. He has a BS in Environmental Engineering and an MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. While at CU John was heavily involved with the student chapter and worked on several water and sanitation projects in northern Peru.

Chris Riley - Buena Vista Sechum Lead

Chris is a retired chemical engineer with 40+ years experience in design and construction in the process industries, with recent experience in upgrades of municipal water and wastewater treatment facilities. He has volunteered with EWB student and professional chapters on the east coast and in Colorado for over 10 years, mainly on water system implementation and upgrade for indigenous communities. He has maintained a lifelong interest in fitness, and currently enjoys hiking and cycling in Colorado.

Treasurer

Alana Helin - Secretary

Alana Helin works at the USDA-NRCS as an Agricultural Engineer. She has an MS in Civil Engineering and a BS in Environmental Engineering from UMN-Twin Cities and UW-Platteville, respectively. These programs led to involvement in organizations such as Engineers Without Borders-USA and several international trips, on one of which she met her husband, Dawood Quazi. She held various leadership positions with her UWP-EWB student chapter and travelled to Ghana on a primary school implementation trip. Alana lives in Longmont with her cat, Mowgli, and tortoise, Wallace. She enjoys hiking, ballroom dancing, aerial arts, reading, travelling, and trying new foods.