Appropriate Technology for the World's People, Design, Spring 2021

Cross listed: UNIV-392/492, PSC-392/492, HNRS-392

MW 4:10-5:30

Pete Schwartz, Cal Poly Physics, Pete's Webpage, pschwart@calpoly.edu

Office Hours: I rarely have students from this class in office hours, likely because we have ample opportunity during shop sections. I scheduled office hours to accommodate my energy class: TR 12-1, MWF 11:30-noon and 1:00 - 1:30. You're welcome to come to these office hours as well and/or schedule a special office hour if you need one. Please let me know if this office hour schedule doesn't work for you and what you would thereby request.

See information from Design (392, Spring 2020), Development (391, Fall 2020), and Design (392, Spring 2019) and from other previous classes.

Activities are listed on modules by week. Course expectations can be found on Syllabus.

Grade determined by weekly assessments, participation, and projects.

Assessment Solutions: #2, #4, #5, #6

Empathy Self-Intervention #2

Please see the links below to the possible projects. During your projects, you will develop a new webpage and send me the link to put into this table. For more information, please see some of the links below and read over the projects from past classes (links above).

Description of Fabulous Failures

Extra Participants
We've had the pleasure to work with the following people who are not enrolled students:

Timeline for the class. Activities subject to change. Please check 24 hours before class.

Week 1, No classes Wednesday, Cesar Chavez Day
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Week 10, No classes Monday, Memorial Day
Exam Week. Final Presentations!	4:00 - 7:00 PM, Wednesday, June 9

Website Link	Description of the topic	Members
#1 ISEC in Ghana	For the past 5 years, we've been developing Insulated Solar Electric Cooking (ISEC, research website). We've received a grant from UKAid to support construction in local communities globally. You will work with Martin (Ghanaian graduate student at EIU) and Emmanuel at SolCook ISEC company in Ghana. See ISEC efforts in past 392 and 391 classes. Tuesday Shop, 8-11 AM	TateB BenB MeganC ThomasM TJC
#2 ISEC in Kerala, India	For the past 5 years, we've been developing Insulated Solar Electric Cooking (ISEC, research website). We've received a grant from UKAid to support construction in local communities globally. You will work with Hawazin of Spring of ’20, a team of professionals promoting novel technologies and lifestyle through collaborations and creative projects. See ISEC efforts in past 392 and 391 classes. Monday Shop, 6-9 PM	KatarinaB AnnieL AnaliseS MaxwellT PeterL
#3 ISEC in Togo, with construction video	For the past 5 years, we've been developing Insulated Solar Electric Cooking (ISEC, research website). We've received a grant from UKAid to support construction in local communities globally. You will work with Salma Bougoune of OSMER, company of construction and distribution of sustainable energy equipment, Togo. See ISEC efforts in past 392 and 391 classes. Tuesday Shop, 8-11 AM	CristianC JonathanDLT MichaelaH TiffanyS EthanM
#4 ISEC with Prince, India, PCM exploration	For the past 5 years, we've been developing Insulated Solar Electric Cooking (ISEC, research website). We've received a grant from UKAid to support construction in local communities globally. One of the benefit of our (soon to be published) technology is that we store the day's solar energy by melting a Phase Change Material (PCM), erythritol, a natural sugar. However, we've recently discovered that erythritol degrades over the period of a few months. This is a real bummer because erythritol is really lovely: common, inexpensive, high heat capacity, totally nontoxic. We need to find another PCM. You will work with Ajay Chandak, PRINCE, India. See ISEC efforts in past 392 and 391 classes. You may work with a group from the energy class. Tuesday Shop, 8-11 AM	ChristopherK LandonK ClaireM SofiaC KatherineM
#5 ISEC in Jamaica	For the past 5 years, we've been developing Insulated Solar Electric Cooking (ISEC). We've received a grant from UKAid to support construction in local communities globally. You will work with Alexis Zeigler at Living Energy Farms, an intentional community exploring sustainable living accessible to low income communities. Alexis has found a different way to make ISECs with locally available materials and simpler assembly technologies, and has made a video and construction manual you can find on our research website. See ISEC efforts in past 392 and 391 classes. Tuesday Shop, 8-11 AM	ZuB ColinM DavyK KingC
#6 ISEC in Cameroon	For the past 5 years, we've been developing Insulated Solar Electric Cooking (ISEC, research website). We've received a grant from UKAid to support construction in local communities globally. You will work with Bidjanga Biloa of GERPAD (Green Energy Research Program for Africa’s Development) in Cameroon. See ISEC efforts in past 392 and 391 classes. Monday Shop, 6-9 PM	ShandeighP IvanL DrewM EvanG
#7 ISEC at Ashram, India, construction video	For the past 5 years, we've been developing Insulated Solar Electric Cooking (ISEC, research website). We've received a grant from UKAid to support construction in local communities globally. You will work with Deepak Gadhia, at Muni Seva Ashram, and technical specialist, Prasad Gangavkar See ISEC efforts in past 392 and 391 classes. Monday Shop, 6-9 PM	MatteoDG MayaS KieferZ SamuelC MatthewG
#8 ISEC with Aid Africa, Uganda	For the past 5 years, we've been developing Insulated Solar Electric Cooking (ISEC, research website). We've received a grant from UKAid to support construction in local communities globally. You will work with Peter Keller of Aid Africa as they develop ISEC for potential deployment in refugee camps housing more than a million people. Aid Africa stands to earn millions of dollars from carbon credits for their improved stoves. Our collaboration with Peter and Irene Keller and Aid Africa dates back to 2015, and you can read about each project in past classes. In 2016, four Cal Poly students spent 3 weeks in Uganda with Aid Africa, as described in this video. See ISEC efforts in past 392 and 391 classes. Monday Shop, 6-9 PM	PageD CollinG CassidyM JaxonS
#9 Improved Wood Stoves with Aid Africa, Uganda	You will work with Peter Keller of Aid Africa as they develop improved cookstoves. Peter says they are "redesigning our household stove. There's a version from Aprovecho that's supposed to be about 40% thermal efficient and it has a chimney so that the indoor household air pollution is about zero. Then we have an institutional stove we're designing and testing. If a hospital or orphanage or prison is spending maybe $200 a month on truckloads of firewood for a stove, we can make a pretty good economic case for selling them a stove that may be 75% efficient." Aid Africa stands to earn millions of dollars from carbon credits for their improved stoves. Our collaboration with Peter and Irene Keller and Aid Africa dates back to 2015, and you can read about each project in past classes. In 2016, four Cal Poly students spent 3 weeks in Uganda with Aid Africa, as described in this video. Cal Poly students designed and built a rocket stove mass heater during Guateca, 2012, the Guatemala collaborative field school. Tuesday Shop, 8-11 AM	VaughnP LikaP JulianM ScoutW
#10 Biogas with PRINCE, India	You will work with Ajay Chandak, PRINCE, India. They are looking to develop a low cost small pump to develop pressure of 400 mm of water column so as to use the biogas in the same burner that uses LPG (Liquid Petroleum Gas... kind of the stuff in a butane lighter). Also it does not make sense to store biogas at pressure in big containers like floating drums. Such pumps will permit use of plastic bags to store biogas at very low cost. You may work with a group in the energy class. Monday Shop, 6-9 PM	SarahM MaryclaireA NateT JamesM NicoleR
#11 Food Preservation with Project Peanut Butter	Can we find a way to preserve grain from aflatoxin, insects, and rodents? Pervious students have found solutions, but there are still challenges. From Mark Manary of Project Peanut Butter: "Peter; The challenge is that the storage vessel if it sits at or below ground level accumulates water. Annual rainfall is 4 m/yr over a 10 mo rainy season. It is tough to think about how do you keep out insects and larger vermin and water in a very poor setting. Roots do this naturally, thus the beauty of potatoes as a staple food. The cassava root skin does this by having a high cyanide content. We are willing to take another look at what was offered last time and go from there. Your immediate contact will be Nino Naskidashvil n.naskidashvili77@gmail.com. Definitely engage me, as I want to see this solved. mark". Tuesday Shop, 8-11 AM	AbnerRH AlexT TaylorVR AveryC
#12 Sexual and Reproductive Health	Professor Joni Roberts of Cal Poly Kinesiology has mentored projects with our classes for the past years... please see past classes. "May 28^th is Menstrual Hygiene Day and I would love to work with a group of students to design a creative product that educates their peers especially in the U.S. on the importance of this event and its impact globally. Especially in light of the pandemic, which has made access to menstrual materials harder especially with many schools closed." see past projects: Sustainable Menstrual Pads in Uganda (Fall 2020), and Menstral Pads project website (Links to an external site.) (Spring 2020).Monday Shop, 6-9 PM	SelinaJD KyraS SarahC ErinI HaileyG
#13 ISEC in South Africa	For the past 5 years, we've been developing Insulated Solar Electric Cooking (ISEC, research website). We've received a grant from UKAid to support construction in local communities globally. You will work with Crosby Menzies, and his African Solar Cooking Company, SunFire. See ISEC efforts in past 392 and 391 classes. Monday Shop, 6-9 PM	BrookeM MiaB FredS BenS OwenM

Not Chosen 14 Oxygen Production in Malawi	Society of Women Engineers’ project team, Team Tech is partnering with Mazzetti to design, develop, and prototype an Oxygen generator for developing countries with limited power supply and resources. Contact person is Bonnie Jean Brown. From Bonnie: "As our team has finished the design phase and has begun the prototyping and testing phase of the project, we are looking into how to successfully implement our device into a community in Malawi. My idea for the class would be to have a group work on an implementation plan that includes a user manual for assembly and maintenance. This would require the group to work with our team on taking the technical engineering drawings and other aspects of the design and breaking it down into something that is extremely user friendly by takes into account social cultural norms that could prevent successful implementation and repair." Monday Shop, 6-9 PM

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Notes on Course Improvement