2009-2010: In collaboration with Greater Springfield Habitat for Humanity (GSHfH), this student team developed design modifications to the standard GSHfH house to reduce energy consumption without significantly increasing cost or construction complexity. The team conducted an energy audit and energy…
Design of a Scalable Solar Concentrator for Use with a Solar Thermal Electricity Generation System
2009-2010: In collaboration with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, this student team designed a solar-concentrator to increase the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of solar thermal electric (STE) technology on the residential scale. Such technology already exists on the industrial scale, but has yet…
Design of a Solar-Powered Microirrigation System and Development of Design Tools for Solar-Powered Irrigation
2009-2010: In collaboration with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, this student team designed a stand-alone solar-powered microirrigation system for a two-acre farm in Westport, MA and also developed a solar-array sizing design tool to assist with the design of similar…
Design for Nitrogen Reduction at the Northampton Wastewater Treatment Plant
2009-2010: In collaboration with the Northampton Department of Public Works (DPW), this student team designed a nitrogen reduction plan for City of Northampton’s Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP). In its recently approved EPA permit, the DPW received substantive comments from down-river…
Geothermal System Design for Stop & Shop Supermarket
2009-2010: In collaboration with Stop & Shop supermarkets, this student team designed a geothermal heat pump system (GHPS) to heat and cool the sales floor of a projected prototype store in Massachusetts. GHPSs are a sustainable alternative to conventional systems…
Design of a Deep-Sea Bacterial Mat Sampler
2009-2010: In collaboration with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), this student team designed and built a sampling system to interface with the Jason II remotely operated deep-sea vehicle to collect bacterial mat from the sea floor. The study of such…