For the past several years , the College of Engineering has led a service learning trip to the central mountains of Nicaragua to evaluate water resources in the region and incorporate it into projects n the undergraduate senior design curriculum. 

The groups task is to identify potential water resource development projects in low-income rural communities and build relationships with local partners and organizations in Waslala, Nicaragua. The group also incorporates a multidisciplinary engineering project that seeks to develop integrated solutions for problems faced by the village in Nicaragua.

The annual spring break service trip to the underprivileged communities in and around Waslala, Nicaragua continues efforts between the native people and student design teams from the Mechanical Engineering department for the design and installation of gravity-fed and photovoltaic-pumped water distribution networks, and to improve water quality.