Professional Chapter Meeting | 2/23/11 |6:30-9:00 PM

Bolivia Meeting

Official project status

Try to convince EWB to accept the new project under the professional chapter

Attach the project to the EWB UNM project

Any assessment/implementation will be under UNM instead of the professional chapter

Assessment trip limited to 7 maximum

Limits traveling members to students vs professionals

Should the project be instated under the professional or student chapter

Lots more work

Need to make officers to control and organize the project

More fundraising

How will the project help

More research needs to be done to prioritize the project specifications

Need to know:

What do they want

What do they need

What can we do

How do we deal with the politics of the area

Traveling plans

How many students and professionals can travel

General Meeting - 7:40

Introductions

Treasury/ fundraising report

Membership report

17 paid members

Some technical difficulties for people paying dues from a third party organization

Meeting schedules - 8:00

3rd Wednesday of every month

3/16, 4/20, 5/18, 6/15, 7/20

Start 6:30- 7:00 pm end around 8:00 pm

With snacks

1-2 hour meeting

1 hour general

1 hour project meetings

Bolivia meetings - biweekly

2/23 and on

Ramah Meetings

will be announced as needed

Ramah - 8:05

Stock wells/private wells hydrochemistry project

Log and test new locations for new wells

Solar project

Gordon's project

Oso Vista Ranch Project

Solar power for educationalpurposes

Need fundraising for system

Pine hill school

Demo system

Hoogan lights

New set of batteries for the system

Need system specs

Amp hours

Load

Watts

Need fundraising

Solar Powered Water Treatment

Education Project

Organized through Sandia

8th grade class

March 9th

Chemistry of groundwater

March 24

Surface water & well sampling field trip

April 4

Biology of drinking water

Water treatment plant field trip

April 28

Science fair

May 4

Well sampling field trip

Need:

Volunteers to help out

Need background checks

To consider air quality demonstrations

Suggested by tribal EPA member

Greenhouse/water harvesting system

Have frames for 3 greenhouses 100x30ft

Need water harvesting system for greenhouse

What kind of plants can be grown in the greenhouse

How much water can rain catchment provide for how many plants

To use solar panels or not

Much more expensive

How to design a stable system

Irrigation system

Design a pipe and pump system

Need to fundraise for this project

Water distribution project

To distribute water for the community

Sewage lagoon

Needs to be expanded

New system needs to be design

Pine hill school well #2

High arsenic + radium

Need to figure out how to fix these wells for the school given the available resources

Nepal

Considering working with a different village

Sabhung (spelling?)

Previous village

Community contribution may not be working

Continuation of working with this community is under consideration

Assessment Trip

Fall or early spring

Project meetings to be announced pending more information

Politics

Still may be unsafe for travel

Treasury Report - 8:20

Volunteer Positions - 8:25

Fundraising co-chair

Justin

Meeting coordinator

Health and safety officer

Vance

Education coordinator

Membership co-chair

Regional conference chair

Would like someone to organize hosting a regional conference

Oct/Nov 2011

Host event in Albuquerque

Website Update - 8:30

Administrator and project manager accounts have been made

Accounts give access to members to contribute to the website of their own accord

Website will be much more up to date with current events

Please keep an eye on the website for more information on projects and upcoming meetings!

Important Dates!!

2/22 11:00-2:00 SOE E-Week Lunch

Marketing Materials need to be prepared to be sold at this event

2/23 Budget Hearing Announcements

Need Representation for Ramah

2/26 Grant Writing Workshop

Location : Centennial Classrooms

2/28 6:00 PM Meeting with Malcom, Bruce, Nick…

Community Involvement

O'Neil's

3/10 5:00 PM PIRG Coalition of students for sustainability

CEC Auditorium

I know this is a little vague, if you have any questions please post them here or ask an officer and we will get the answer for you ASAP!

Ramah Meeting | 2/16/2011 | 6:00 - 7:00 PM

Meeting and Event Posters

Flyers may not be posted anywhere except the bulletin boards in the Centennial building!

ECE Class Presentation

Print out one-pagers for distribution

HVAC Meeting Tomorrow

3:00 - 4:00 PM

T-Shirt Design

Ramah Contact Update

Requested Information

Memorandum of Understanding

To elicit community involvement

Gather the plans for required permits and permissions

Information on Design and Design Alternatives

Background Check Paperwork to be sent soon

Community involvement

6 week summer workshop - kids

Sheep shearing, weaving, and cultural activities

Time - TBA

Professional chapter

Working with kids to plant the seeds for a science fair

Work with professional chapter

Fun projects

Solar education

Deadlines

Presentations - anytime

Send information to contact with any plans and alternatives

Triple A Solar

Contacted to install the panels for the system

Design Update

Circulated Air Heating System

Much cheaper and simpler system

Faster to install

Low maintenance

Low output system

Can this system be roof loaded!?

Need to check the roof load limits

Ask the community if it's ok

Possibly schedule an alternatives meeting

More research for each system

Now that we have verified heat load calculations, we can consider more alternatives

Schott Solar

Promised to donate some panels for old water-glycol

Marketing Materials

E-Week

Slide presentation

PIRG - Sustainability Council

Currently Biology Department run

Administration only at the moment

Students may attend but not participate

Sustainability Campaign

State Senator trying to get funding for sustainability projects

Attempt to consolidate student organizations with sustainability in mind

Try to get a Coalition of Students for Sustainability

Could get state funding for this endeavor

Presentation - 3/2 6:00 PM

Press conference to publicize the group and intentions - possibly?

Bolivia Meeting | 2/14/2011 | 6:00 - 6:35 PM

Local Pilot Testing

Contact Kasey :

Need more people to help out!

Fundraising meeting Thursday

La Cumbre

Candelaria & Girard

6:00 PM

T-Shirt

Goal

To get the group to look like a team

Advertisement

Stuff to sell!

$100.00 min for an advertisement on the shirt

50/50 Raffle

Tickets will be ordered to sell at the E-Week booth

Bike Race

To be researched and discussed further

New research - Soap

Home made soap with no industrial chemicals

Is soap already used for washing clothes, hands, pots, pans…?

General Meeting #1 | 2/8/2011 |6:30 - 7:15 PM

Introduction

EWB

Bolivia Project

Assessment trip #2 - summer

Ramah Project

Implementation! - summer

Semester Goals - 6:35

Raising $10000 this semester!!

Raised $9000

Fundraisers

t-shirt design

Competition

Booth at E-Week - 6:40

Week of the 21st

Need to make or put together stuff to sell

Friday, February 25th

Ramah Update

Focus: renewable energy

Meeting: every Wednesday : 6:00pm

Report writing

Design finalization

Educational component

School

Teach kids about renewable energy

General science

How NOT cool it is to throw things at solar panels!

Adults

How to maintain and care for the heating system

Possible series of workshops

General skills

Presentation practice

Next fundraising meeting

LaKumbre Thurs - 6:00

Bolivia Update - 6:45

Meetings - every other Monday - 6:00pm

Assessment trip #1

Last summer

Water samples

Much testing

Communicating with the community

Assessment trip #2

To keep in touch with the community

More tests

Pilot testing

Workshops - 6:50

Presentations

To give to professionals or at events

Grant Writing

How to write grant letters

Research possible donors

Fundraising - 6:56

T-shirts

Selling sponsorships for shirts

$100-200 per ad

Raffle

Bolivia

50/50 raffle sale

Possibly $50-$100 /ticket

Dues - 7:00

$20.00/year please pay to an officer

Must be a paid member to:

Travel

Participate in events

T-shirt discount

Access to EWB website

Bolivia Meeting | 1/31/2011 | 6:00 - 6:50 PM

Feedback from the Workshop - 6:00

It would be good, but difficult, get the local government more involved into our project

Bolivian government may not be very involved in the Tsimane communities

They provide teachers and little else that we are aware

Fundraising

Fundraising specific meeting: Thursday 2/3 at 6:00 pm at Oneill's

Education

A group of people will be trained to fix and maintain the water filter system that is being put in

Also will be teaching the Anthropology group members how to fix the system

We will do our best to keep in touch with the communities for possible future troubleshooting

Try to get the communities to organize a committee or a water board to organize community members and get them involved in the process

We can get some help and support from the Anthropologists and doctors in the area also with their own projects

Design

Senior design project group

Finish PER !

Need to keep researching the best option

Building wells

Wells with pumps

Sand filters

Different types of filters will be built and tested for a freshman design class (small sized filters)

Project Update - 6:25

Travel plan meeting at 7 tonight

Pre assessment trip report

PER

Senior design report

Filter testing results

Must be translated into Spanish so that we can give it to the community to keep and research

Fundraising!!

Budget Update - 6:30

Total $14000.00

We have $4000 now

7 people to Bolivia

Buy the tickets early

Need to raise $9000 this semester

Education - 6:30

Germs, bacteria, viruses

Cleanliness

All and all volunteers needed

Have any friends that like to teach/nurse…let us know!

Outline community requirements - 6:35

Internal organization

Financial contributions

Monetary investment from the community

Very small amount of money or something tradable

Maybe ask the community as a whole to set aside a small amount of money at set intervals (insurance plan)

May or may not be feasible due to the fact that this community is still transitioning to a market economy

Donate translators to assist our organization during the trip

Mapping or other labor to assist us during our trip

May be difficult for more sparse communities

The more people involved, the more community members will be held accountable

Next Meeting - 6:45

PER work

Analysis or design

Prepare for pilot testing

Rahmah Design Feb 11, 2011

Band drawbacks associated with a potential design change from the current Solar Hot Water design to a Forced Convection Solar Hot Air system.

PROS:
-Maintenance of this kind of system would be much easier than SHW, since it has only one moving part: a small 14 watt fan that is powered by an onboard PV panel on most models. This is probably a big pro since maintenance was an issue with the previous project in Ramah because as of now (particularily because there is no heater) the building is not always used on a daily basis.
-Installation could be significantly easier for us than with the SHW system.
-SHA systems start providing warm air more quickly in the morning.
-The simplicity, passivity and replicability of the system puts it more in line with the general ethos of EWB than did the SHW system.
-This simplicity also makes the education initiative much easier, both in terms of explaining the system to the community and kids and in creating a user manual.
-Overall, the system is likely to be much cheaper than the SHW system, lessening our fund-raising requirements and getting us toward our real goals much faster
-Although the system we have been looking at is made in Canada it is available through several distributors in Albuquerque alone and has a 5 year warranty.

http://www.yoursolarhome.com/solarsheat.com/dealers/northamerica/index.html

CONS:
-There is no thermal storage so use at night is pretty much not an option.
-Installation actually may be an issue: if we mount directly on a south facing wall we would need to remove trees at the site. If we mount on the roof we run into some of the issues we were grappling with in the SHW design (although this panel weighs only about 100lbs).
-Overall, it seems the biggest issue would be capacity, could we actually heat the Hoogan with these and how many would we need?
-This area probably requires the most research on our part. According to the numbers given by Solar Sheat, a double-wide unit on a sunny day is capable of providing 40,800 BTU/day. Our initial heat load calculations (which were generous over-estimations) by Adam and the guys at Bridgers and Paxton put our need at about 9,682 BTU/Hr. So were forced to consider things like purchasing and installing more panels (3 would get us close) and may loose some of the advantages in cost and installation ease. According to one dealer I looked at the double units were about $3,000 and the single units about $2,000.

One of the side benefits of this limited capacity however may be that we would have to put even more thought into increasing efficiency elsewhere in the building with insulation etc. Being forced to work around various expected and unexpected constraints while still resolving the initial problem... sounds like engineering!

Engineers Without Borders Rahmah Meeting

Feb 8, 2011

E week hosted at UNM Feb 9
Tshirts
National Conference in March 24-26
Communcity Relations Manager
make more contacts at Rahmah
make memorandum of Understanding
Rugs – from Weavers Coop
Workshop Series
Weld
Interview
Sand filters
Grant writing
Air Heating