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Bruce V Rydbeck, P.E., D.WREBruce holds civil engineering degrees from Clarkson and Northeastern and worked for consulting engineering firms in the Boston area ten years, while completing his master’s degree.
Bruce has a wide variety of design and construction experience on overseas development projects and for 26 years developed and directed the clean water projects ministry of Desarrollo Comunitario Vozandes. As a rural water supply consultant for Life Giving Water International, he now helps build and rehabilitate community water systems in Ecuador and Peru. Bruce is a Diplomat Water Resources Engineer, a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and holds engineering credentials in Ecuador. He is a member of the American Water Works Association, American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Scientific Affiliation. He has presented a number of technical papers on aspects of international development at conferences. Bruce enjoys mountain biking and has climbed several of Ecuador’s Andean mountain peaks including Cotopaxi at 19,350 feet. Bruce and his wife Cherith are fluent in Spanish and have lived for most of the past 34 years in Ecuador with the exception of 15 months when they worked on the Tenwek Hospital hydro-electric power plant in western Kenya. |
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Wade and Sarah DaughertyWade holds both bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from RIT and has been employed by the MITRE Corporation since 2008. Sarah holds a BFA in Graphic Design from RIT and is currently a stay-at-home mom to their two children, as well as self-employed as a freelance Graphic Designer. Sarah has served on three Grace Chapel short term mission trips to Ecuador, to partner with the Rydbecks on projects providing sustainable water, teaching, and encouragement to Quichua communities in the Andes. Her first trip in 2006 left her with the desire to go back and to share the incredible experience, and she gratefully accepted the opportunity to lead a multi-generational team the following year. In 2013 Wade was able to share the experience as well when together they joined the team serving the community of Achullay.
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Carolyn Lippmann has taught Sunday school, led Bible Studies, is on the Missions Committee, is a Deaconess, and is a Stephen Minister at the Trinitarian Congregational Church in Wayland. She also helped lead short-term mission trips to the Dominican Republic and recently helped organize the 2013 ISI International Student Thanksgiving Conference. She has taught high school math and physics and university chemistry. Carolyn holds a BS degree in chemistry from Smith College and Master’s in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has four adult children and five grandchildren.
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Dr. Richard LippmanDr. Richard Lippmann has organized and helped lead short-term mission trips to the Dominican Republic and recently helped organize the 2013 ISI International Student Thanksgiving Conference. He has taught Sunday school, been a mentor for confirmation classes, been the chair and a member of the Missions Committee, and is leading a Bible Study and on the Board of the Trinitarian Congregational Church in Wayland. He is a Fellow at MIT Lincoln Laboratory and has worked on Signal Processing for the Hearing Impaired, Speech Recognition, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, and Computer Security. He recently received the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Technical Excellence award and has authored or coauthored more than 100 papers, reports, or books. He received the first IEEE Signal Processing Magazine award for the article "An Introduction to Computing with Neural Nets," has supervised more than twenty SM and PhD students, and was a founding board member of the Neural Information Processing Systems Conference. Dr. Lippmann holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and a PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has four adult children and five grandchildren.
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Bill and Judy LongBill and Judy Long are honored to be serving as Board Members for Life Giving Water International. Bill has a PhD in Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he worked as a research scientist until retiring in 2013. Judy was a elementary school teacher in the Waltham public schools for 36 years. Both have been active in missions, serving on the missions committee at Grace Chapel for a number of years. They have had an active ministry with international students for more than 30 years, meeting and befriending them, mostly in their home but also working with a group having monthly dinners and programs for international students. The Long’s have been involved with the Rydbeck’s ministry in Ecuador for more than 30 years.
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Craig R. Miller, PECraig got his start with Ecuador and the Rydbecks during their epic 1995 short term missions trip. As a practicing professional civil engineer, the adventure and engineering service opportunities presented by this trip began a 20 year journey for Craig in the use of his civil engineering skills to help others in developing countries. Since that time, Craig has worked extensively in Haiti, Rwanda, Nigeria, Ghana, and Paraguay. He has led over 300 high school and college age students to Haiti on short term service trips, helping advance the needs of some of the poorest people in the world. He served as co-instructor for the Capstone Engineering Course at the University of Massachusetts Lowell’s Civil Engineering Department where he taught new CE seniors how their skills can dramatically improve the lives of thousands through strategic infrastructure development. He is a founding member of the University’s Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI), an organization who is focused on the needs of developing nations worldwide. He has worked directly for the Prime Minister in Haiti and numerous international NGOs including World Vision, Oxfam, Catholic Relief Services, and the Inter-American Development Bank.
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