I am so pleased to announce that we have completed our first of three interviews with the first year engineering students from The University of Toronto.
Headed by Phuong Huynh | Course Administrator
Engineering Strategies & Practice (ESP)
Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering | University of Toronto
http://www.esp.engineering.utoronto.ca
About the course.
The objective is to provide real-world motivations and context for Mathematics and Science fundamentals taught in the engineering program. This is done by introducing the students to professional communication, engineering design and independent learning through design projects.
Who are the students?
ESP spans the first year of 1000 students from nearly every discipline in engineering. The groups will typically have students in different disciplines (mechanical, civil, chemical, electrical, industrial, computer, mineral and and material science engineering). Being First Year students, their detailed technical knowledge is limited; however, they are bright and very eager to learn.
What are the expectations for the client?
As a client, you define a problem (this is your project description), and then you meet with the student group three times over three months to answer their questions and hear their current progress on the problem.
SEEDS has submitted 4 problems as follows.
1. Solar recycling watering system for our tree nursery and resource garden during the dry season.
2. Solar seed drying system during the rainy season.
3. A cold Cellar suitable for the Kalahari Dessert to store, dried, fresh and canned foods.
4. A harness to be placed on a cow or oxen to collect manure to use to fertilize family gardens.
We are very excited after meeting all of the teams and look forward to seeing their designs in May 2015.
I will keep you posted as they progress and we hope to implement these designs this August 2015 on our Voluntourism Trip.
If you would like to join us:
Have a look!
http://www.sendseedstoafrica.org/voluntourism-trip-to-zambia-august-2015
Thanks so much Pheung, students and The University of Toronto.
