UNIV-391 / HNRS-391 / PSC-391 / UNIV-491 / PSC-491
Pete Schwartz, Cal Poly Physics:, Pete’s Webpage: pschwart@calpoly.edu.
Office hours: M (4:10), T(10:10), W(1:10), R(none), F(9:10 and 11:10)
General Appropriate Technology Website for all Past Classes, and in particular Last Year’s “Development Appropriate Technology” Class
Pete Schwartz, Cal Poly Physics:, Pete’s Webpage: pschwart@calpoly.edu.
Office hours: M (4:10), T(10:10), W(1:10), R(none), F(9:10 and 11:10)
General Appropriate Technology Website for all Past Classes, and in particular Last Year’s “Development Appropriate Technology” Class
Self Interventions: Just add to the top of the past Don’t Throw Away Page, Empathy Intervention, and Self Intervention Page
Class feedback from Week 3; Here are my evaluations from your talks and presentations in week 8.
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Final Exam:
Description of what I asked last year’s students to expect from last year’s final exam
2015 Final Exam
2016 Final Exam
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| CrossCultural Curriculum | We are building a shared curriculum between Malawi and City Cottage in the USA. The curriculum should include all the pertinent contemporary topics including climate change, resource depletion, pollution, human rights, and globalization. There are considerable challenges including cultural and political taboos. You can begin organizing this curriculum. How to you navigate the cultural challenges with controversial topics in the classroom? How do you discuss women’s rights with students in a culture that has different view of womens rights? | Charlie Appel (cappel711@gmail.com ), Daniel Wiens daniel@journeymaninternational.org. Good start. |
Julia Nurse jnurse@calpoly.edu Will Olson will.olson72@gmail.com Shannon Nelson snelson2015@sbcglobal.net Ben Elisarraraz benelisarraraz@gmail.com |
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| Water Disinfectant | In the Sunzu Village, Rwanda, we have built a library. We are also preparing to building a community center and several other projects. We will have adequate rainwater catchment for all the water needs. However, rainwater can become contaminated after it is stored, so we need a means to make it drinkable, “potable”. KICKSTARTER from Fall 2017. | Daniel Wiens (daniel@journeymaninternational.org) Carly Althoff (Carly@journeymaninternational.org), Mia Sheperd (mia@journeymaninternational.org). | Gabriel Seelig gseelig@calpoly.edu Catie Michel cbmichel@calpoly.edu Saul Flores sflore07@calpoly.edu |
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| Cooking with Solar Electricity | Pete’s ongoing research with partners in Uganda. Additionally, there’s the opportunity to partner with solar cooking companies by putting electric heaters in their Hay Baskets. From last year: Webpage, Kickstarter ; From Spring 2017 “design and build” 392, also see these two projects: Large cookers for school, and Magic Basket Cooker, Temperature Sensors |
Solar Cooking Research | Joanne Phung jphung03@calpoly.edu Connor Church cachurch@calpoly.edu Sam Korff skorff@calpoly.edu Jamie Chafe jchafe@calpoly.edu Marshall Brusca mbrusca@calpoly.edu |
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| Aquaponics | Aquaponics ?could be? an energy and water efficient agricultural practice that uses a system of water tanks filled with fish to grow plants for food. We’re researching foreign and domestic applications for an aquaponics facility, particularly as horticulture therapy at a prison. From last year’s class: Aquaponics |
PolyPonics FB Page Aquaponicsolutionz.weebly.com |
Kayla Young kyoung26@calpoly.edu Avalon Johnson ajohn138@calpoly.edu Brendan Waltman brendanwaltman13@gmail.com Andrew Suarez suarezandrew415@gmail.com |
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| Homeless Homeless Development Site |
We are working to help create sustainable employment opportunities to better the lives of the homeless community. You might look at the work from last year’s class. | Jill Bolster-White I can’t access your webpage. You have to make the webpage public. One shouldn’t need a membership to read the webpage. |
Saba Belay Kassa savaasmamaw@gmail.com Troy Daum tdaum@calpoly.edu Judy Kong judykong1997@gmail.com McKayla Beavers mabeaver@calpoly.edu Peter Nguyen peter.h1.nguyen@gmail.com |
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| Open Defecation Website |
Sanitation is a very important part of development. Please see the TED talk from SOIL Pete has 10 years’ experience with a bucket toilet. See Design and build project from Spring 2017. | NPR Article on OD Good start. Please put your short bios at the end or spin off a dedicated website for it. |
Riley Haas rehaas@calpoly.edu Ethan ejalexan@calpoly.edu Jess jtaylo@calpoly.edu |
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| Postpartum Hemorrhage Prevention | Please see the website from Spring 2017 design and build 392 class. Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is excessive bleeding in a mother after childbirth. PPH is the leading cause of perinatal maternal death around the world. We we will be working with InPress Technologies in developing an extremely affordable device to be used in 3rd world countries. Additionally, Amy has added: “try to make a handheld pump or create a cheap/reliable sterilization method for medical devices such as a Blake drain” | Contact Amy or Marshall |
Savannah Hobbs: smhobbs@calpoly.edu Megan Wenzel mewenzel@calpoly.edu McKayla Beavers mabeaver@calpoly.edu Conner Marden cwmarden@calpoly.edu |
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| Solar Suit Case Link to site |
We Share Solar provides the Solar Suitcase to rural communities lacking electricity. Their dissemination model also incorporates universities and high schools / middle schools in the USA; thereby providing a powerful motivation to learn about technology and challenges faced by humanity globally. More | Maddie Kerwin (Cal Poly) Jason Diodati (Templeton HS) LInk to project website: We Share Solar |
Jeremiah Schoenfeldt: jjschoen@calpoly.edu Olivia Woods: owoods@calpoly.edu Johanna Fleischman jjfleisc@calpoly.edu |
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| Composting Waste at Sunzu Library | Develop a composting system for waste defecation at the Sunzu, Rwanda Library. Our class final presentation | Carly Althoff (Carly@journeymaninternational.org),
Good start. How about a picture of you guys at the end? |
Annalisa Balestreri acbalest@calpoly.edu Donald Hersam dhersam@calpoly.edu Jenny Smit jmsmit@calpoly.edu |
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| Water for the Navajo Nation | 80,000+ Navajo Tribal members living on the Navajo reservation are without clean, running water, and are living on less than 10 gallons of water per day. The non-profit DIGDEEP works to support the Navajo nation. From last year: Pumping Water With DigDeep, Kickstarter Video ; From 392 Spring 2017, the design and build project. |
DigDeep Proposal Project Description DIGDEEP Water george@digdeepwater.org Last year’s solar garden |
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| Drip Irrigation with Burro | Develop an affordable micro-scale gravity fed irrigation system that could be sold through Burro (https://www.burrobrand.biz/pc/) to farmers in Ghana? Last year’s webpage:Drip Irrigation with Burro | nheston@calpoly.eduwww.burrobrand.biz | Catie Michelcbmichel@calpoly.edu | |||
| Solar Ice | Pete and Nate’s ongoing research. We’re designing a freezer facility that will use solar power to produce ice. From last year: Solar Ice, Video SDD for refrigeration in Tanzania (Unicef, WHO) |
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| Food Preservation | Last Spring in a design and build, 392 project, we began developing a desiccant to keep food dry. | |||||
| Indigenous US Americans | We don’t have to go to beyond the boarders of the USA to find a foreign country and underserved communities. One example is below with the Navajo Nation. However, they are not interested in supporting a project this quarter, so you may consider finding another community within our national boarders to learn about and work with. | |||||
| Insects for food and feed | Insects such as Black Soldier Fly Larvae and meal works may be a sustainable form of protein-rich feed for fish and chicken. Can we feed them with organic waste and food scrap? Can we eat them ourselves? This project from spring 2017, has a little bit to do with this topic. Bugs taste good? | A blog on BSFL DIY projects | ||||