CEE 4550 Sustainable Water Supply Project (3 cr.)
Fall and Spring
Instructor: M.L. Weber-Shirk
Pre or co requisite CEE 4540
co-meeting with CEE 2550
CEE 4550 is available to third and fourth-year undergraduates and graduate students, and can be used as a Major Approved Elective or as a Design Course. (CEE 255 cannot.) Students can take both courses multiple semesters, but can only receive design credit and Major Approved Elective credit once for CEE 4550. Students in CEE 4550 are expected to take on a larger leadership role than students in CEE 2550.
Student teams conduct research, build working models, design full scale prototypes, create design algorithms, and create educational materials for technology transfer to improve drinking water quality in Honduras.
Students are required to attend two 50-minute meetings per week that are used to present project information, organize teams, present reports, meet with the instructor, and work on the team project.
The first two weeks of the course are spent defining tasks and organizing teams. Students participate in problem definition, solution strategy, team formation, and task scheduling. Student teams write a project proposal early in the semester describing their approach to solving the research or design challenge. Teams present progress reports in the form of PowerPoint presentations and wiki-based reports twice per semester.
Midterm interviews with each student are required to discuss his/her contribution to the project. Final reports summarizing semester progress will be submitted by teams. The content of the final report is also presented to the class as an oral presentation using PowerPoint.