Rachael Moxley
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Fall 2008 Contributions
This semester, as a leader on the Outreach Team, I had to decide if we would focus on pursuing microfinance or grants as a means of fundraising. The way I interpret the path forward for AguaClara it would take far more time and resources to set up microfinance as a means to accomplish our ends, where as pursuing grants will help us sustain the employees at APP who are dedicated to building our plants. While in the future our plants will be bought out-right, and perhaps microfinance will prove beneficial after all, grants would help our immediate goals. Additionally the informational packet developed by the Spring 2008 team was very complete, I felt it was lacking in terms of expected topics covered and went too in-depth in some areas for what was needed. Thus, our focus this semester has largely been about finding and applying for grants.
For the first part of the semester I worked to create a flier to recruit someone to work with LabVIEW, submitted blurbs for the same recruitment to the Sundial and SWEmail, created a technical brochure, submitted an abstract for the ESW conference (which was postponed until fall), wrote a grant proposal, helped organize presentations for freshmen engineering 1050 classes, helped a middle school student find the best water treatment process for his future city, wrote up wiki minutes after weekly meetings, and worked with my team to create the submission for the google 10 to the 100 competition. I have also worked to lead team meetings and improve wiki organization for the outreach pages. In the second half of the semester, I have reorganized the attachments on the wiki pages, put up fliers for recruitment (including LabVIEW), helped set up an info session during pre-enroll, ordered t-shirts for the team, created a newsletter for alumni, supporters, and contacts, and edited the draft of the demo plant instruction manualand participated in the final presentations.
Spring 2008 Contributions
To start off the semester I have laid out the structure for the Automated Design Program. I did this by indicating important programs, subprograms, inputs and outputs, and the means by which each program is connected as sort of a starting point for creating code. Since then many of these have changed, and I suspect more will be revised as we create more of the code and figure out what works best.
As a team leader I wrote a gantt chart for the automated design team and detailed tasks for the semester so team members knew what was expected of them.
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Early on Once the program skeletons were turned in, it became apparent that a better way to manage our files was needed. I set up a data repository on SourceForge using SubVersion. To communicate with the repository another program is needed. I chose TortoiseSVN and had it installed on most of the lab computers.
I have written much of the pipe database, whose initial scripts for calculating inner diameter of a pipe and data for pipe schedules was started by Tania. I expanded the program to handle SDR values, included descriptions of what the pipe specifications stood for to help understand the scripts to calculate the inner diameters and created programs to construct arrays for available pipe sizes. I have written the Master Program, the first half of the coding for the grit chamber in the Hydraulic Design File (the part that calculates the number of risers), included the titles and areas in the MathCAD files for MasterProgram, Pipe Database, UnitProcesses and Hydraulic Design files, and worked to integrate the files so that nothing turned red. I wrote the Chemical Feed Program in the Unit Processes file based on a MathCAD file in the Tamara design files. (I don't know if we need it.)
In the wiki report I wrote the following sections: Abstract, Master Program-Introduction and Objectives, Master Program, Pipe Database, Under Hydraulic Design: Launderer Design, Channel Design, Grit Chamber Design, Plant Elevation Design, Under Unit Processes: Chemical Feed Design, and the Conclusion and Future Goals.
In the midst of the semester I went to the Ithaca Youth Bureau to teach kids about water treatment.
By the end of the semester I had worked to integrate the design variables between hydraulic design, unit processes, and autocad with labview. And finally, (sorry I forgot this was only supposed to be a paragraph) I went to the Ithaca Youth Bureau to teach kids about water treatement.
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