An engineering assessment visit to a remote village in Nepal five months after the April 2015 earthquake.
A community hospital that Manjeet Pandey and the International Medical Corps built in the same village in 2016 .
Manjeet Pandey, a graduate research assistant at CU Boulder pursuing a master’s degree in civil engineering, was recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) as one the 2024 New Faces of Civil Engineering for his outstanding contributions to the field.
In 2015, Pandey was drawn to relief work. While taking his final undergraduate exam at a university in Jaipur, India, he and his fellow students felt the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck his home country of Nepal, nearly 700 miles to the northeast.
Fresh out of college, Pandey became involved in a reconstruction project as a project engineer amid recovery efforts. Within five months he advanced to taking on leadership of the project and overseeing a team of engineers and public health professionals in constructing 21 community hospitals in Nepal.
Following the health post reconstruction project with International Medical Corps (IMC) Nepal, Pandey continued his impactful work by collaborating with the United World Schools organization to build 72 new schools in Nepal and later contributed to building 30 more schools in four other countries.
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