We are PUC Team Mexico 2019, a student group of Mechanical Engineers and a Social Worker! We are working with a community in Santiago Suchilquitongo, Mexico to improve the current drying process of mesquite pods and to enhance the storage of the mesquite flour after it has been milled.

 

Projects with Under-served Communities, or PUC, is a unique program at the University of Texas at Austin combines the two challenges of community need and student enrichment in an innovative project-based, service-learning collaboration between the International Office, the Cockrell School of Engineering, and the School of Social Work. Students in the PUC program learn project management, scope and change management, risk assessment, and construction principles and apply them in an international setting as they work with local communities to define, design, and implement engineering project.

 

During the fall semester we will focus on fundraising and the initial phases of our project designs. We need your support to provide a sustainable project in our community in Santiago Suchilquitongo! In the spring semester we will continue in the design process, testing, and prototyping. By the end of the spring semester we will have our projects and logistics completed. We will then implement and assist in building our projects with the community in Santiago Suchilquitongo! 

 

Each of us come from various backgrounds but all have the desire to use our technical and soft skills to promote economic growth in this community. Click on the names of each team member below to learn more about us! 

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*UT Liability Disclaimer*

No University of Texas at Austin student, faculty, or staff can be required to travel to a Restricted Region (http://world.utexas.edu/risk/restrictedregions).  Any participation in travel to a Restricted Region is strictly voluntary, and the participant assumes full responsibility for all risks associated with this travel. 

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As a condition of Participant's involvement with or participation in the program activities, the Participant will release, waive, discharge, and agree to hold harmless the University of Texas at Austin from all liability arising out of or in connection with Participant’s involvement with and/or participation in the program activities at Projects with Underserved Communities (PUC). Participants of all PUC programs must acknowledge that the country/countries in which the PUC program activities may take place in whole or in part, or any other country through which the Participant may travel when involved with and/or participating in the program activities, or while in route to or from the program activities, may have health and safety standards substantially below those enjoyed in the United States. Participant must further acknowledge the inherent hazardous and dangerous nature of the program activities as well as the above-referenced risks of participating in the program activities or in traveling to, through or from the country/countries in which the program activities will take place, and must agree to assume all risk of illness, injury, or death from Participant’s travel to or from the program activities and participation therein. 

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