ES 242, Engineering by Design, is a course required of all engineering students, and it is a project-based class. That is, students are assigned to work in teams on a project specified by the professor.
For the last three spring semesters, Professor Barry Lubin’s class has been assigned to develop and test a device that uses the sun to heat water to a level acceptable for hygienic use.. The first teams, in 2008, developed preliminary designs based on a fixed design procedure. The second group of teams, in 2009, refined those first designs and built prototypes. This semester, the last in the series for this project, the teams had to evaluate the final design, make changes as needed, and then predict and measure performance. Overall, the design project is directed at third world countries that have plenty of sun but lack sanitary facilities like hot water.
Here are photos of some of the students and their devices.
Team C's variation of the solar water heater.
Team C gathers data as the sun works.
Team A's device being tested as a student checks data.
The students in this semester's EN 242 project are
Team A: Cody Hucke, Eeric Steinberg, Daniel Wright, Martin Bowes, and Anthony Panebianco
Team B: Jeffrey Portal, Harrison Flynn, Michael Thatcher, Vincent Hynes, and Simon Kudernatsch
Team C: Jessica Barringer, Sean Murnan, Sharif Al-Raqqad, Emily McMullan, and Brent Thibodeau
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