Environmental design contest fuels clean energy
With NMSU staff LAS CRUCES - New Mexico State University’s Institute for Energy and the Environment (EIA) and the College of Engineering is in the development of sustainable solutions to the challenges posed by the environment of its 18 International competition
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The Universidad de las AmŽricas team Puebla, … (Photo courtesy of Free Love Tom IEE / WERC)
The events very bitter disputes Features 33 teams from 23 universities, some 190 participants from the United States, Bogazici University in Turkey, in the universities of Manitoba and Waterloo, Canada, and a team Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico. It is also a showcase finals of the National Science Foundation project, in partnership with three universities and two in Mexico, New Mexico.
This year’s design tasks on the basis of the environmental challenges facing our world, which focus on renewable energy technologies to fight for innovation, sustainable construction, and water.
Thirteen teams fighting Task 3: Inland operating desalination and disposal in rural areas, Isolated communities, invites students to develop and demonstrate an economic approach and improve energy efficiency, the system simple and reliable recovery of the brackish water. This task is done by the American Water Works Association Research Foundation (AWWRF), and it is also very important, because EIA has recently received an award from Office of Naval Research for the work with General Electric Water and Process Technologies similar, Research brackish groundwater desalination National Research Facility of the Tularosa Basin in
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Alamogordo.
This work is particularly important, in the southwest of the groundwater contamination is often associated with high concentrations of salt. The research is likely to make a significant improvement of knowledge, the current process of desalination, reduce costs, and can lead to that the economic viability of the technology options for soldiers on the ground, water treatment.
“The recent distinction water marked a new high point of our group know-how, conduct and maturation of successful partnerships in history. We are very pleased that our flagship event of an example of the innovative cooperation between the public sector and the private sector, science and industry, “said Abbas Ghassemi, Executive Director of EEI.
Two other missions very popular with engineering teams are: Task 1: Innovative Technologies for an existing building, in order to increase the efficiency, performance and sustainable development of the site and tasks 5, the separation of water the emulsified oil to reduce, reuse and recycling by-products of manufacturing and improving the educational process in accordance with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold promote Task-5.
Environmental Engineering students should poster and an oral presentation and a written report to the bank a demonstration on the scale of a subgroup of 45 judges. Teams have the chance to win prize money, the academic and professional recognition, as well as Intel’s Environmental Innovation Award and the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Travel Award. A student at the prestigious Terry McManus Memorial Award.
Sponsors of the event are AWWRF, Intel Corporation, the National Science Foundation, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, U.S. Department of Energy, the US Food and Drug Administration and the EPO.
The public is welcome and encouraged to participate in the competition Tuesday, April 8, the Pan American Center and admission is free. New Mexico Attorney General Gary K. King will make a presentation on legal issues and the environment in the ballroom of the Corbett Center in the third floor of 6.30 pm Sunday, April 6.
The NMSU College of Engineering has three centres of excellence “to make the Institute for Energy and the Environment. EIA partners WERC, a consortium for environmental education and technology for development, Southwest Technology Development Institute, renewable energy, research and development, Karlovy Vary and environmental monitoring and centres Research, a nuclear waste management and monitoring of the Centre. For further information, please contact Abbas Ghassemi, director of the IEE (800) 523-5996 or (575)
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