Engineers for a Sustainable world

UCSD startup 5/26/2010

ENGINEERS FOR A SUSTAINABLE WORLD

HOW WE STARTED

Got an email

Few meetings

Lots of ideas

WHAT WE FOUND OUT

Most already on campus (Engineers without Borders, Green Campus, Sustainability Coalition)

Poor publicizing

WHAT WE DID

We joined them

No funding for ourselves

1ST MEETING

First meeting was a bit hectic

Room for 40 people, 60 people showed up

Kept about 35 people

3 keynote speakers – Biomatrica, Faculty Advisor, Chris Prelitz

RESULTS

Have about 40 members or so

Currently 4 different projects

-Biomatrica

-Green Bikes

-Air Quality

- Water Efficiency

In the process of acquiring two more: compost team, and underwater component for tracking sea urchin travel with Scripps Institute of Oceanography

BIOMATRICA

-Reduces cryogenic freezers-We have become their salesmenSymbiotic relationship where we both benefit from it

GREEN BIKES

Training bikes into generators

Worked with Triathlon team

Project has finished

AIR QUALITY

Creating sensors to monitor particulate matter in the air

WATER EFFICIENCY

Working with facilities on their irrigation

In and around Giesel library

DIFFICULTIES

Funds

Communication with Facilities

Midterms

Persistence

THANK YOU

rdchung@ucsd.edu