Sanitary Engineering Education: ICA Assistance in Peru

The Department of Sanitary Engineering, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina has, under the sponsorship of the International Cooperation Administration, an agency of the United States Government, a contractual arrangement to provide technical assistance to the Faculty of Sanitary Engineering of the National University of Engineers, Lima, Peru. The experiences of this project is the subject of this report. The undergraduate teaching program of the Faculty of Sanitary Engineering in Lima has been modernized and made more effective by the recruitment and training of full-time personnel, by the expansion of laboratory teaching, by streamlining and coordinating course content, participating in extension work and by general improvement of all activities.