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Global TIES- Baja Team The Baja, Mexico Solar Water pump team is part of Global TIES, a humanitarian-based engineering program at University of California, San Diego that allows students of different disciplines to work together to achieve a common goal in engineering through a project for a non-profit organization. For this project particularly, the Baja, Mexico team has been working with Kathleen Dwyer, the president of the La Mision Children’s Fund (LMCF) since the Fall quarter of 2012. LMCF is a non-profit, volunteer organization that helps provide essential aid and necessities to the children and youth of Baja, Mexico living in extreme areas of poverty.
Over the past year, the Baja Team has successfully implemented a solar water pump at the Rancho de los Angelitos. Today we are designing a solar water heater for the orphanage Casa de la Familia. |
Global TIES- Triathlon Green Trainer Team UCSD’s TIES Triathlon Green Trainer is a sustainable energy solution for the UCSD Triathlon Team in an effort to send the energy generated by the athletes to a local electricity grid. The end goal of the project is to fabricate 10 to 20 training units for the triathlon team with the possibility of expanding to exercise facilities and individual use. The primary design constraints we continue to focus on are maximum portability of the system, ease of user interface, and unit cost reduction.
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Global TIES- Engineering Design for Development Class Diana was a Teaching Assistant for 8 engineering project groups in the Eng100D. An introduction to the practice of design and team engineering within a humanitarian context. Includes a group project designing a solution for a local or global nonprofit organization. Topics include: design process, contextual listening, project management, needs and capacity assessment, stakeholder analysis, ethical issues, models of leadership, gender and cultural issues, sustainable community development, and social entrepreneurship.
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