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Education Module
Toluwase Bolarin, Nathan Duderstadt, Michael
Fitzgerald, Hugh Parent
Syllabus
GRADING
25% Hydropower
Day 1 HW: 5%
Day 1 HW: 5%
Hydropower
Week 2
Our Goals
Use differing educational perspectives to
approach water and energy problems
Understand the principles that drive water
and energy technologies
Work with a group to generate ideas that
push existing technology
Gain a high level knowledge of water/energy
technology
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Lecture
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What is hydropower?
How does it works?
Examples
Case study
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Homework
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http://amailahydropower.com/project/Hydropower.cfm
Day 2
KW River Hydroelectric Speaker
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Case study
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http://kwriver.com/
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Day 2: Innovation
2nd Lecture
Professor gives brief presentation of tidal power
equations
Equations are simplified for accessibility
Professor follows this up with a few examples
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Topics include
Guest speaker
Assignment- each group gives a report on a
working system using one of these technologies
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Topics Covered
http://energyinformative.org/how-solar-thermal-collectors-work/
Each group picks a solar thermal design from each of the three collector
categories: Low, Medium, High
Each group has to come up with a research paper with each of these
components for each solar collector:
How it works
Its efficiency
Homework:
Using this information select the best solar thermal collector that your
family can buy.
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records flow
powers device
kitchen sink
bathroom
bathtub
faucet
heaters
Its speed
Average estimated optimal times for taking shower, washing hands, or cleaning
dishes against users past history of doing such tasks and user preferences.
i.e. User likes to take long showers with very hot water. App will recommend
cutting down time on shower and keeping the water same temperature or
reducing the temperature slightly but spending the same amount of time in
the shower.
Allows you to set timer for different tasks so that water flow automatically shuts off when
timer is down.