A student project for AHSE1500: Foundations of Business and Entrepreneurship (taught in Spring 2006) featuring an Olin College themed tradable card game. It consists of cards of students, professors, locations, and events.
This record contains the Final Report for the project and scanned images of all the cards in the game.
Green building standards like the Living Building Challenge promote the construction of net-zero energy buildings. In order to meet these standards, alternative heating and cooling methods become necessary, especially for designs with high glazing percentages. The design and analysis of a low cost heating and cooling system with 100% solar fraction is being investigated to address this scenario. Following a literature review and visits to two Living Building Challenge certified buildings, a preliminary building configuration was created for the Living Lab project at Olin College of Engineering. Thermal modeling was conducted on three basic building configurations with different amounts of solar glazing to determine the peak thermal loads for the project‘s temperate building site. Future analysis will be performed using Green Building Studio and eQuest software to identify energy saving strategies and confirm a final proposed design.
The Olin Raytheon/WHOI SCOPE team is assisting WHOI in the buoy design effort by writing software tools for managing the energy budget of a deployed buoy. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) scientists are constructing buoys for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), an NSF funded program that will construct a network of buoys for monitoring physical, chemical, geological, and biological variables in the ocean and on the sea floor. The buoys in development for the OOI by WHOI will be expected to operate for 25 years with annual maintenance. Power for an array of reprogrammable sensors will be dependent on a combination of solar and wind power generation and an on-board fuel cell replenished during the annual maintenance.