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Students
Project :
VA regularly host students from higher technical
institute to do project on rural technologies. Project current in
progress.
1) Cambridge University -- ‘Developing repository for
rural technology projects for engineering students’. A team of
engineering students from Cambridge
stayed at ashram for a month and documented potential project for
engineering students. The projects are available on http://www.engindia.net/
Current
research projects
1) Design
Challenge: Cooler Housing in Hot Climates
Researcher: Hanae Kobayashi,
Science Academy of South
Texas
Solution: Use spray-on PU-foam to
insulate existing buildings against heat.
2) Design Challenge: Short Term Food Preservation
Researcher: Vivek Mahadevan,
Engineers Without Borders, University
of Bristol
Solution: Use a combination of a
solar chimney and ground source cooling to create a cold storage unit
for agricultural produce.
3) Design Challenge: Design biogas generator
Researcher:
Jonna Read,, Mechanical engineering students at the
University
of Bristol
4) Design
Challenge: 'Alternatives to 12V batteries'
Researcher: Philipp
Kolb, from Imperial College,
UK
Engineers
without border
5) Assessing suitability of well sites by Olivia Patterson 6)Rain water Harvesting by Idahosa Bright Aimiuwu
7) Bamboo as a permanent structural component by Peter Macintosh
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