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Teaching Sustainability Analysis In Electrical Engineering Lab Courses, David Braun
Teaching Sustainability Analysis In Electrical Engineering Lab Courses, David Braun
Electrical Engineering
Laboratory courses represent an incompletely tapped opportunity to teach sustainability concepts. This work introduces and evaluates a simple strategy used to teach sustainability concepts in electrical engineering laboratory courses. The technique would readily adapt to other disciplines. The paper presents assessment data and a wiki containing student sustainability analyses.
A Sustainable Business Proposition For Selling Irrigation Pumps In Ndola, Zambia, Robert Hosbach
A Sustainable Business Proposition For Selling Irrigation Pumps In Ndola, Zambia, Robert Hosbach
Biomedical Engineering
Robert Hosbach is proposing a sustainable business plan to bring a small‐scale irrigation pump to rural Ndola, Zambia. With hundreds of thousands of citizens living in poverty and semi‐annual starvation, Ndola is in need of a means to grow crops effectively in the rainy season. Their current agricultural practices rely solely on the inconsistent rainfall during this time. My pump will be constructed from locally‐available aluminum cans, epoxy, glue, and fasteners (refer to Appendix B for technical drawings of the pump). The business will employ only a small number of Zambians, but will bring a means of food and income …