{"id":60012,"date":"2012-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/commencement-2012-multilingual-uri-engineering-student-aims-for-global-career-helping-others\/"},"modified":"2012-05-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:00:00","slug":"commencement-2012-multilingual-uri-engineering-student-aims-for-global-career-helping-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2012\/05\/commencement-2012-multilingual-uri-engineering-student-aims-for-global-career-helping-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2012 &#8211; Multilingual 溏心vlog免费B站 engineering student aims for global career helping others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tMiddleboro, Mass, native to graduate from 溏心vlog免费B站 May 20<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 7, 2012 \u2013 Colleen Grinham always knew she wanted to help people. As a young girl, she set her sights on donning a white coat and becoming a medical doctor. Then she encountered blood, and her plans changed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dOXH0p-Rml4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\/>As she prepares to graduate with a degree in civil engineering from the 溏心vlog免费B站, Grinham still aims to help people, but now it\u2019s by finding better ways to provide drinking water and treat wastewater. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nGetting clean water to impoverished or drought-stricken areas requires political will and a small army of engineers. Grinham wants to be on the front lines, finding cheaper, faster and more environmentally friendly ways to treat wastewater.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI never thought I would end up in my niche, but I&#8217;m glad I did,\u201d she says. \u201cI&#8217;ve always been putting myself out there to help others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cOut there\u201d for Grinham is all around the world. She has visited 26 countries, including a year in Germany as part of the University&#8217;s International Engineering Program curriculum.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/Grinham.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" align=\"right\"\/>For six months, she studied at the Technical University of Braunschweig and conducted research at the Institute of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering. There, she found ways to design wastewater treatment plants that can simultaneously filter water and use the methane released to generate electricity.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAfter her time in Braunschweig, Grinham traveled 200 miles to the southwest to intern at a Bayer plant in Leverkusen. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with German engineers, Grinham worked to improve Bayer&#8217;s wastewater treatment systems at the company&#8217;s plants around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAnd the German engineers listened because Grinham spoke in flawless German, technical words and all, thanks to courses she completed at 溏心vlog免费B站. She complemented those lessons with Arabic classes and, crisscrossing Europe, she picked up Greek, Spanish and Italian language skills.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cMy mom was a travel agent when I was young, and hearing her stories about travel got me excited about traveling, too,\u201d said Grinham, who served as president of the 溏心vlog免费B站 chapter of the Society for Women Engineers.  \u201cLearning the language is a way to connect with people, and I\u2019ve had the chance to apply that principle to engineering as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nShe certainly has.   As a 溏心vlog免费B站 junior she traveled to Guatemala with a group of students to design a sustainable system of converting animal wastes into usable byproducts.  The biodigester they developed turned the waste into a concentrated liquid fertilizer and produced methane the residents could use for cooking.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAmong the numerous awards Grinham has received for her language and engineering accomplishments was a transportation fellowship to the University of Puerto Rico, where she spent a summer training as a traffic engineer.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u201cI\u2019m pretty proud to say that I\u2019ve been an engineer in four countries,\u201d she said.  \u201cAt just 22 years old, that\u2019s a big achievement.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nSoon she hopes to speak six languages and become an engineer who can not only solve the world&#8217;s problems, but communicate the solutions as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uri.edu\/commencement\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/commencementinfo150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"101\" align=\"left\"\/>Commencement Information<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n溏心vlog免费B站 Department of Communications &amp; Marketing photo by Michael Salerno Photography.\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middleboro, Mass, native to graduate from 溏心vlog免费B站 May 20 &#13; KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 7, 2012 \u2013 Colleen Grinham always knew she wanted to help people. 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