Building 10-231
Pete Schwartz, Cal Poly Physics:, Pete’s Webpage: pschwart@calpoly.edu
Office hours: M(12:10), T(2:10), W(1:10), Th(9:10), F(10:10)
Please see the tentative course timeline presently being built. All course expectations can be found on the syllabus.
Please see the links below to the possible projects. During your projects, you will develop a new webpage and move the information to this new page. For more information, please see some of the links below and read over the projects from last year’s class: Design 2015, the development theory class from last fall, and from earlier years on the Appropriate Technology Website. You are welcome to build off old projects, and to start new projects yourself. However, I make suggestions below for projects I personally emphasize and support.
Don’t Throw Anything Away! and log your week-long saga on our Self Intervention Webpage
| Link to webpage | Description of the topic | Comments… what do you have to say? Add links, etc. | Student Email |
| Water Filter Design, Winter 2016 | We are interested in designing biosand filters – both small (personal use) and large (village / small community). We plan to design and build filters based on the research conducted by last quarters class on Water for Cambodia and our own research. The goal is to create a low cost design that allows many (if not all) materials to be sourced locally. | Jordan Baxter jebaxter01@gmail.com Julia Isabella Cannata Cody Mindling |
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| PVE Solar Cooking | Build a cooking technology at the Student Experimental Farm that uses PV panels and insulation. See the two PVE cooking groups at Fall 2015 Winter 2016 |
Duncan Mitchell dun.m.mit@gmail.com
Madison Fleming Carter Price Mia Sheperd Courtney Wedel |
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| Solar Cooker | We have a polar axis tracking mirror that might be used to make a concentrated solar cooker. Read our paper | Gabriele Pregadio sentiinex@gmail.com Kathleen Sones Neel Kogali Jose Samperio |
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| Grassroots Biochar Production | Design and build a biochar production facility at the Student Experimental Farm for novel and experimental farm purposes. A partial continuation of the Biochar project from Fall 2015 | Cameron Montalvo remy.mont@gmail.com Gabriela Belen Gomez Tyler Varian-Gonzalez Dominic Chequer Michael Twardochleb |
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| Solar Powered Garden | Build a solar powered irrigation system at some location in SLO. Options include the aquaponics facility at the Student Experimental Farm. See the Solar Garden group at Fall 2015 | Michael Zamora Mwzamora@calpoly.edu Kat Tran Jolie Leung Brian Alvarez |
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| Insulating Cooking Skirt | Create an insulating pot skirt that can be used to improve efficiency and reduce emissions of wood burning stoves. | Kylie Everitt kylie.everitt@gmail.com April Villarreal Zack Farrell Marcus Alman |
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| Rice Hull Pulverizer and Insulating Brick Making | Create a new form of insulating bricks using rice hulls for Aid Africa to use in their cook stoves. | Ryan Hodgens hodgensryan@gmail.com Scout Vernon Beth Hotchkiss Daly Sombat |