ieee canada humanitarian design competition
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IEEE Canada Humanitarian Design Competition. Organizational Meeting Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Waterloo. Some slides taken from presentation on WE CARE solar suitcase by Hal Aronson & Laura Stachel. Objective of Competition. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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IEEE Canada Humanitarian Design Competition
Organizational MeetingDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo
Some slides taken from presentation on WE CARE solar suitcase by Hal Aronson & Laura Stachel
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Objective of Competition
• Provide venue for students to gain practical experience in improving or innovating on an existing design under some of the constraints and conditions they will face in industry.
• Competition involves improving a “solar suitcase” for use in medical clinics in developing countries
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Maternal Mortality and Electrification
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Municipal Hospital
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Operating Room
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Maternity Ward
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WE CARE Solar Suitcase• A portable solar electric system that fits in a suitcase• Powers overhead LED lighting, charges walkie-talkies
and cell phones, and includes LED headlamps that come with their own rechargeable batteries.
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Energy Estimate: 40 watt PV Panel
PV Watts x Sun Hours x 0.5 = Energy
40 watts x 5 hours x 0.5 = 100 watt-hrs
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Example Use of 100 watt-hrs
• Two 3-watt LEDs x 5 hours = 30 watt-hrs• Two cell phone charges = 10 watt-hrs• Eight AAA batteries = 10 watt-hrs• Laptop for 2 hours = 50 watt-hrs
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Maternity Ward Before
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….After
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O.R. Before
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O.R. after PV: 17 watts
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STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION
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Overview
• WE CARE will make the details of their “solar suitcase” platform available as Open Source Hardware
• Participants will be asked to study this system and to propose ideas that will improve it, extend it or innovate it.
• It is mandatory to limit designs to parts of this platform
• All designs will be “Open Source”, and will become part of the open platform
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Potential Ideas• Simplification of the installation• Creation of a collection of direct current (12VDC) medical
devices• Enabling the use of Li-Ion batteries• Enabling the use of electric handheld tool batteries • Optimizing the charge controller• Improving the system’s serviceability and cost • Improving the system’s enclosure• Innovating the connectors and cabling • Improving the effectiveness of recycling and sustainability
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Logistics and Timeline
• Teams submit project proposal (100-200 words) by Jan 14th describing what aspect of the platform they will be improving
• Progress report due Feb 18th describing work done so far, timeline, design specs, etc.
• Final report due April 1st, will be judged based on innovation, quality, completeness, practicality and complexity
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Teams• Open to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in a
Canadian college or university.
• Each team must be led by an IEEE student member– Other team members are not obligated to be members of the IEEE.
• Teams are required to have a mentor (a professor from the institution where team is enrolled, or from industry)
• Teams will have a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 4 members
• No limit on the number of teams from a given institution
• No entry fees
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Prizes• Abstract of the winners’ work will be published in the IEEE
Canadian Review magazine
• First prize, CND $1000; second prize, CND $700; third prize, CND $300.
• Top three teams will receive travel grants and complementary conference registration for the [2]Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE); at this conference, they will be asked to show their designs on the solar suitcase during a tutorial session.
• Students will be rewarded at a ceremony that will take place during the CCECE in early May 2011 in Niagara Falls, Ontario.
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Design Goals: Round Two
• Maintain functionality• Reduce cost• Simplify installation• Provide suite of 12VDC appliances
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Find the “best” PV Module
• Manufacture• Friendship prices Or…..• Buy leftovers and
used….
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Battery
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Optimize charge controller
• Size: reduce Amperage (10A)• Type: PWM or MPPT?• Features: Displays• Price: trade degree of reliability if repair
infrastructure in place?
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Concentrate deployment
• Better Data• Training• Maintenance/recycling infrastructure• Local assembly? Haiti; S Africa• Shipping
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Contacts
• Shreyas Sundaram, [email protected]• Siddharth Garg, [email protected]• Hiren Patel, [email protected]
Please send an email to one of the three contacts listed above by Tuesday Jan 11th if you are interested. If you have already created a team, please include a list of team members.