ESW

Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) is a national network made up mostly of student chapters (~35 as of Jan 2014). ESW chapters work on technical design projects, generally on campus or in the local communities. Starting in Jan of 2014, groups associated with ESW are taking on specific aspects of the GVCS.

Specific project pages

• ESW_Project_-_Universal_Rotor
• ESW_Project_-_Strawboard_Machine

ESW Partnership Links

• OSE Collaboration Update - January 14, 2014
• ESW + OSE - August 02, 2013

Process Notes

The steps for establishing a working project were:

• Initial conversation with ESW leadership regarding OSE - ESW collaboration
• ESW leadership discussed ESW Chapter-OSE collaboration with OSE, including the lead of the RIT chapter
• Projects were narrowed down to Pelletizer and Strawboard Machine with RIT Chapter lead in a conference call that included ESW leadership
• Roster of students was provided by ESW RIT chapter
• Introductory mee

RIT Log

RIT Roster

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January 22, 2014

Thanks for a good meeting.

For further motivation on Strawboard - I talked to my friend Alastair Parvin, founder of Wikihouse about strawboard - and we are excited about strawboard being the material for his CNC-cut houses - see his TED Talk -

http://www.wikihouse.cc/

For further motivation to sudents:

1. If the design is successful, OSE will build the machines during the summer of 2014 - where we will have a summer of Extreme Design/Builds. The summer session will include machines, microhouse builds, and some agriculture activity - centered around the application of our machines to these areas.

2. Phase 1 of Strawboard Machine would be a batch machine, say 3"x1' wide, for producing, say a 4' board. Then we could move to a coninuous process in Phase 1.

3. It would be good to design the Phase 1 Strawboard machine by the summer.

4. The goal is complete design and fabrication instructions.

5. We prefer Google Sketchup as the CAD platform, because everyone has access to it.

6. If the design is complete and if OSE approves the final fabrication procedure, OSE could invite ESW team members for the actual build in the summer. The build should take under a week if we follow OSE Extreme Design principles of modular design - where many of the parts can be built in parallel. Thus, we need to design with this in mind - this is something I can go over with the team.

Marcin