Summary: Calvin College engineering students will show off their senior design projects at 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 8, 2010, in the Vermeer Engineering Projects Center and Prince Engineering Design Center.
See full story: www.calvin.edu/news/2009-10/senior-design
Calvin senior engineering majors are trying their hand at solving some real-world engineering challenges. About 70 students have put together 17 senior design projects. The students will showcase their work to the public at the 26th-annual Senior Design Banquet and Projects Night, held at 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 8, 2010, at Calvin College.
A number of the projects this year focus on helping to solve sustainability and international development challenges. One of those projects is a 40-foot-wide steel shipping container that four engineering students have turned into a home.
"I was down in South Africa a couple of years ago and saw these post-apartheid townships," said Andrew Rescoria, a senior civil and environmental engineer and native of Zionsville, Indiana. "There's just a huge need for sustainable housing, and there will continue to be a need."
Rescoria's team, "Ship to Shanty," has equipped their model with some modern-day amenities: there's a sink, a toilet, a living area, a ventilation system, a sewage system and a basic water treatment system. The unit even has a garden on the roof.
For a video tour of their project, visit www.vimeo.com/11527392
This year's projects also include: a microbial fuel cell; a drinking water system for Cuchiverachi, Mexico; a heating-and-cooling system for a home in East Grand Rapids; an amaranth popper; a wastewater treatment system for a village in Ecuador; a master plan for the Eden School of Agriculture in Cambodia; a bridge across Calvin's Whiskey Creek; a kayak course for the Grand River; a GPS unit that works in tunnels and other enclosed spaces; an automated pool cleaning system; a remote-controlled, adjustable putting green; a geothermal snowmelt system for Calvin's Burton Street Entrance; a more-efficient internal combustion engine; an amphibious vehicle; a kit that converts a standard bicycle into a snowmobile and a recreational lock system for Grand Rapids' Millennium Park.
The event is open to the public. For more info, contact Aubrey Sykes at 616-443-9899 or visit www.calvin.edu/academic/engineering/senior-design
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