Sea Can Hydroponics Project

Working for this project helped us learn a lot of soft as well as hard skills. It helped us develop a discipline of keeping group members updated about the current situations

We’ve made great advances in the last century, innovating at an astonishing speed. But unfortunately, it seems as if in the last decade, the rate of innovation has slowed down considerably. Every new product is just an iteration of the last iteration, with no defining jumps in technology but only incremental changes. With the snail-paced recovery of the economy and a looming global warming crisis, America needs more engineers if it wants to stay the dominant nation that it is today and if it wants to make sure that the future of its children is safe, prosperous, and pollutant-free. None too often it is the small ideas from engineers that create sparks in the economy and keep this great nation of ours going. As distinguished professor Michael Schiffer would say, engineers have “the ability to symbolize technological prowess and modernity” (4). I plan on joining this distinguished group of innovators. I want to become a professional electrical electronics engineer, to acquire the knowledge and the skills to be able to run my own consumer electronics company one day; Becoming a professional electrical electronics engineer will allow me to work on providing clean energy for my parents’ hometown of New Takoradi.

I hope to continue this work at the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Undergraduate Research and Fellowships paired with a focus under the field of The Netter Center’s ABCS courses such as “The Role of Water in Urban Sustainability and Resiliency” and “The Community Physics Initiative.” The Pennovation Center, located on the Schuylkill River, with its emphasis on thought leadership, civic engagement, and transformative innovation is the ideal home for a project of this scope.

A hydroponic growing system is a soilless system that allows for a better control of what nutrients the plants are receiving. Instead of using a soil to keep the plants in, we will be using a mixture of perlite and vermiculite which will give the plants something to hold on to and grow, but will also offer no nutrients to the plant that could affect their growth. Since they plants will be receiving no natural nutrients from the soil we will have to supply the nutrients to the pants in order for them grow to an optimum level for us to perform the

“Project Approach is an in-depth investigation of a topic worth learning more about” (Morrison, 2012). A small group of children within a class, sometimes a whole class, and occasionally an individual child carry out an investigation with the purpose to search for answers to questions about a topic worth learning more about, something the children are interested in (Morrison, 2012). It benefits the children due to the fact that it makes them thinking in a higher level. Children’s enthusiasm for a specific subject convey them to ask questions, make decisions about what they are going to do keeping in mind the end goal to research and use real life experience.

When developing a project, you work in phases. Phase 1 is to identify what your students are interested in, what they already know about this

Students often have asked in the classroom, “When am I ever going to use this stuff in real life?” If we can help them design a project that they could apply their knowledge in the real-world students will be more eager to learn. Everything that’s meaningful to us we put more effort. This gives the student the chance to choose something relevant to their everyday life situations. If it's meaningful for them, they would be more eager to learn and want to understand the concept. One example they give in the article is for a physics project a student questions was” Why should I wear a helmet when I ride my bike?” With this question they will learn about motion, acceleration and gravity. Once they are done with the project they will understand the importance of wearing a

Agriculture industries must also address agriculture’s relationships with both energy and water as food production is highly dependent on both. Food and energy, for example, have an intriguing codependent relationship. It takes energy to produce food—from the fuel in the tractors to the natural sunlight that helps the plants to grow, and food can also produce energy, like the corn in ethanol. New technologies like hydroponics may help to mitigate energy costs and water use while growing greater bounties in smaller spaces.

The Aquaponics system is an affordable way to sustainably grow food in an urban environment. Additionally, it allows for year round production of food. It works by pumping out wastewater from an aquarium with fish, which is used to fertilize plants. The plants then filter the water and the water is piped back into the aquarium. Growing Power, Will Allen’s organization, uses an Aquaponics system so as to be able to produce fresh food year round.

CEI building is considered as an asset for the University of Windsor. It meets the requirements of students, faculty, and study, industries to interact, and create new ideas that will innovate and inspire the future of sustainable design. This project has been successfully completed on September 7th, 2012 with many engineers hard work. CEI covers an area of 300,000 sq. Feet with 8 classrooms, an auditorium which can hold 350 people, dozens of study rooms and meeting rooms, faculty chambers, 300 plus computer workstations and almost 80 plus research laboratories.

NASA’s idea of growing food in space farms is a brilliant idea. Which led me to think up this wonderful idea. We need to start a farm inside a greenhouse. Once the plants start growing they will produce oxygen we need to survive and they will also produce fruits and vegetables we can eat. Then the basic things we need will be covered with the exception of water.

work has not developed, it may also pose a problem in completing the project. As a result

Southern Ontario became the hub for greenhouse for conducive environment; new technology with new breed of strains had constantly developed without any genetic alterations. As hydroponic gained its momentum in horticulture sector, the revenues has reached top in terms of production and economy of the industry.

Aquaponics is the combination of raising fish and soilless plants together in one system. One provides benefits for the other. According to Engineering for Change, the fish waste provides organic food for the plants and the plants provide a natural filter for the water that the fish live in. They are mutually beneficial and create a thriving and sustainable environment when combined. The biggest benefit of an aquaponics system is that it is a cost-effective method of home gardening and growing some delicious food to enjoy!

- The UBC Farm houses The Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS), which aims to change global and local food systems to be more Eco-friendly and food secure. They try to find new ways to solve challenges that the sustainability of food systems face, and thus enhance community, personal and environmental health. Their group’s mission is to create a healthy environment