In the Fall of 2012, after a discussion with Paul Bishop, Dean of Engineering Research at URI, I met with both Drs. Vinka Craver and Tom Boving who are ‘hands-on’ engineering professors with experience in water purification in rural environments, namely Kenya and Guatemala. A team of 16 Honors Class university students in HPR “Designing Sustainable Solutions for Developing Communities’ chose the HOME Shelter as their class project. They chose to research and build prototypes of four subsystems to test compliance to requirements. As Tom Boving said: “They went in directions totally unexpected”. The results were extremely organized, innovative, researched and engineered – even though there wasn’t a single engineering student in the class! |
