Category Archives: engineering

Hot off the Press (the other kind of press)

The online magazine, eGFI, a publication of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), has just published a story about our collaboration with RISD. Take a look.
http://students.egfi-k12.org/waste-for-life-making-trash-useful/

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Hotpress Innovation

The UWA hotpress is not exactly in action yet – lacking the electrical work and some minor tweaking – but enough is there to see what changes Derek Goad has made to Darko’s original design. Take a look specifically at the counterweight that allows the press to open like a clamshell and, especially, the way [...]

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Building Upon What’s Been Built

In conjunction with a winter semester 2010 course being taught by Joshua Pearce at Queens University, MECH 425 – Engineering for Sustainable Development, senior Nate Preston is reviewing, evaluating, and illustrating the Kingston Hotpress design via a public Appropredia wiki. His astute insights can be found here.

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Maseru Aloe Multi-Purpose Cooperative Union Receives UNDP Grant

Maseru Aloe Multi-Purpose Cooperative Union Receives $50,000 from the UNDP to support a Waste for Life initiative in Lesotho

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WFL Needs and Feasibility Book

Caroline, Eric, Thimothy, and Emily have just published a book about Waste for Life and the methodology we have honed during the past four years. From the introduction: Engineers can help make the world a better place. We can provide better access to water, health, food, shelter, education and warmth, and we have the potential [...]

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Making composites: A simple step-by-step approach in pictures

Making the composite step-by-step

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Citizen Engineer

Nasser Saleh sent along a link to Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering. Although we take issue with the lopsided implications of the term ’social responsibility’ which tend to perpetuate social and economic inequalities rather than disrupt them

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