Mechanical engineering students get pumped up to find solutions

There’s nothing quite like firsthand experience, as UCCS mechanical engineering students are discovering in their senior capstone class. Under the leadership of Peter Gorder, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Engineering and Chair of the department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, students Alexa Boerger, Jeff Holloway, Kristyn Kelly and Isaac Payne recently concluded a trip to Uganda where they partnered with the local population to devise a better system for obtaining freshwater from nearby Lake Bunyonyi.