First General Body Meeting

1. Engineers for a Sustainable World First General Body Meeting

2. Who We Are -A group of students, ranging across many majors, interested in engineering in sustainability and sustainable awareness. -4 Regular Project Teams -Over 200 active body members

3. Our Goals -Promote Sustainability across Cornell’s Community, the local surrounding community, and the national community -Explore innovation in green technology and engineering -Experience Leadership -Exchange ideas and increase professionalism and networking -Have fun and make friends through learning

4. Events • Guest Lecturers • DilmunHill farm Work days • Drive not to Drive • Regional Conference - for E-board members • National Conference – for E-board members • Mini-projects • Others in the works!

5. What Can You Do? Sign up for project teams! Become a member of the E-board and help run ESW (Elections are in May)! Come to our events! Attend lectures by leaders in their field! Come by for our mini-projects! Go to the Dilmun hill farm or farmers market with us! Get involved with outreach to local elementary schools!

6. Project Teams -Solar Kiosk Constructing a solar-powered food cart -Biofuels Converting fats, oils, and greases into eco-friendly fuel -HPEG (Human Powered Electric Generator) Uses human energy power to sustainably produce energy -Solar Ovens Creating smoke-free solar cookers for food and distilling water

7. SOLARKIOSK

8. Overview • Grant from Sun Edison and AutoDesk • Solar Powered Crêpe Cart • Educational and Fundraising Tool

9. Current Status • Research Complete • Preliminary design: Solidworks • Material Selection • Have solar panels, batteries, and parts for cart structure

11. This Semester • Construct body of cart • Solar Panel support system • Electrical configuration

12. Contact Kyle Willmott(kjw98), Meghan Mckenzie (mem426), or Emily Burke (ewb62) for more information about joining the Solar Kiosk Team Meeting TOMORROW 5pm, Upson 111

13. ESW Biofuels Team:Collaboration among Cornell ESW, Cornell’s Ag Experiment Station & Ithaca Wastewater Treatment Plant Advisor: Ruth Richardson rer26@cornell.edu

14. The Problem • FOG (fats, oils, and greases) clog sewer pipes when dumped down the drain • Expensive, not environmentally friendly

15. The Opportunity • FOGs can also be refined into environmentally friendly fuel • Biodiesel or refined WVO • Our plan: collect this waste stream and convert to an environmentally-friendly energy source

16. Collecting FOG • How much from residents? • 400-1000 gal/mo • Potentially collecting from Cornell/Ithaca College • additional 600 gal/mo from Cornell alone

17. To Do list for this semester • In order to implement this, we need $$$$$ • Investigate potential grants, write and submit grant proposals • Federal, state, Cornell, etc. • Planning the implementation • Designing/investigating FOG collection stations • Advertising/logos • Working with potential collection sites • Developping educational material on biodiesel

18. Fall 2013 team • A few students can sign up for independent research • 1 cr: ~3 hr/wk • 2 cr: ~7 hr/wk • 3 cr: ~10 hr/wk • Interested? Send email with resume to: Prof Ruth Richardson: rer26@cornell.edu

19. Human Powered Electricity Generation Project Bicycle powered generator Wave powered generator

20. Bike and Generator

21. Generator and Drive

22. Charge Controller – Generator

23. Solar OvensProject

24. What is a Solar Oven? • A device which uses the energy of direct sun rays to heat, cook or pasteurize food or drink

25. Benefits of Solar Cooking • Affordable, sustainable, simple technology • Solar cookers are smoke-free, preventing diseases and health issues related to smoke inhalation • No fuel required, Eliminates burdensome fuel gathering trips • Can be used to pasteurize water during emergencies  • Technology can also be used to distill water, dry foods, roast coffee

26. Solar Ovens at Cornell University We design, build, and test solar cookers, solar fryers and other solar powered systems. Our mission is to improve and optimize solar oven designs in order to provide cheap, sustainable, easy alternatives to wood fired cooking. Partnered with Grupo Fenix and  Las Mujeres Solares de Totogalpa

27. Ongoing Projects Concentrated Light Cookers Solar Water Distiller Ithaca Solar Oven Portable cookers

28. Meeting Information • Meets Mondays at 7:30 PM in B02 Thurston Hall • Questions? Contact • Alex Huang azh5@cornell.edu • Tim Bond tkb2@cornell.edu

29. More Projects? • If there’s a big demand, we will set up a committee to start up new projects. • New and 0ld projects in the works: • Veggie Van • Ecology House • Mexico Project • Open Source Ecology (OSE) -Your Ideas?!

30. Cornell Energy Course Offering • Materials: Enabling Future of Energy (ENGRI 1140) • Future EnergySystems (MAE 5010) • SustainableDevelopment (BEE 3299) • Wind Power (MAE 4020) • BioEnergy and Biofuels: (CHEME 6661) • GeothermalEnergy (CHEME 6663) • Electric Power Systems (ECE 4510) • RenewableSystems (BEE 4010) • EnergySeminarSeries (eg. MAE 5430) Full listing willbeavailablesoon on ESW CornellWebsite

31. Check Us Out Online! Website: http://eswcornell.weebly.com/ Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ESWEngineersForASustainableWorldCornell Or check out our Twitter account! While you are here, sign up for our Listserve!

32. Thank You! While you are here, do not forget to sign up for our Listserve!