Skill Builders are curriculum resources designed to facilitate hands-on learning opportunities during design trainings. If you intend to use this Skill Builder in a training, we encourage you to download all of the relevant resources, including:
Instructor Guide
Participant Photo Guide
Skill Builder Evaluation
Questions? Please contact IDIN Academic Partner, Olin College of Engineering at anna.konstantinova@olin.edu.
Skill Builders are curriculum resources designed to facilitate hands-on learning opportunities during design trainings. If you intend to use this Skill Builder in a training, we encourage you to download all of the relevant resources, including:
Instructor Guide
Participant Photo Guide
Skill Builder Evaluation
Questions? Please contact IDIN Academic Partner, Olin College of Engineering at anna.konstantinova@olin.edu.
Skill Builders are curriculum resources designed to facilitate hands-on learning opportunities during design trainings. If you intend to use this Skill Builder in a training, we encourage you to download all of the relevant resources, including:
Instructor Guide
Participant Photo Guide
Skill Builder Evaluation
Questions? Please contact IDIN Academic Partner, Olin College of Engineering at anna.konstantinova@olin.edu.
Skill Builders are curriculum resources designed to facilitate hands-on learning opportunities during design trainings. If you intend to use this Skill Builder in a training, we encourage you to download all of the relevant resources, including:
Instructor Guide
Participant Photo Guide
Skill Builder Evaluation
Questions? Please contact IDIN Academic Partner, Olin College of Engineering at anna.konstantinova@olin.edu.
This report summarizes the work of IDIN Summer Research Fellow Kelly Heber Dunning, who traveled to Malaysia and Indonesia during Summer 2015 to study community-based approaches to managing coastal natural resources such as coral reefs and mangroves. This research, which forms part of Kelly's doctoral dissertation, finds that community-based resource management arrangements afford greater opportunities for innovation in natural resource management and sustainable livilihood development compared to top-down management arrangements.
Trash is a big problem in Sao Paulo, Brazil. UC Davis students Ryan Pang and Daniel Quinn from D-Lab have worked to design and prototype a PET Bottle Strip Cutter for Miguel Chavez in the Innovation Center-Vila Nova Esperanca. The problem with the existing bottle strip cutter currently used by the center is that the design will not allow for adjustments to be made in the size of the plastic string created and is not set up for different sized plastic bottles. Cutting bottles into strands of plastic is important because the string can then be woven to make items such as chairs, green houses, fencing, and more. These products can generate income to improve the lives of people living in poverty. Additionally, in improving this design we can decrease the amount of plastic trash accumulation by repurposing it to create desirable goods.
This is the presentation abstract of a research project on improving the efficiency of cassava graters. The author surveyed existing cassava grating surfaces on the Ghanian market and then designed and tested three new grating surfaces. The project was presented at KNUST in July 2015.
This paper continues the previous research of the author, in which the author surveyed cassava grating surfaces on the Ghanian market. The author designed and tested three new grating surfaces to improve efficiency and ensure interchangeability of the cassava graters.
This paper continues the previous research of the authors, in which structural failures of aluminum pots cast by Zambian businesses were evaluated. The authors then explored how local practices can be improved to prevent common use failures.
In Colombia, bee pollen farmers collect 30-40 kg of bee pollen per week, but endeavor to improve storage and preservation methods. This report explores the design and development of a bee pollen dryer in Colombia by a student at UC Davis.
