Just an average Joe? Or a god amongst sustainable lifestyle and development engineers?
Try the latter.
Hi I'm Landon, and I am WAY excited to be tapped into APPROPEDIA!
I am a student at Queen's University (GPA = 4.0, no big deal) in my 4th year of BioEnvironmental Chemical Engineering.
My interests are not too ambitious, I just want to save the world. What's wrong with it? Human activity is destroying the environment, the same environment that humans depend on for survival. Species extinction, decreased biodiversity, increased human population, unsustainable living and pollution are just a few of the problems I am interested in solving.
I have been inspired to sign onto Appropedia through the 4th Year Mechanical Engineering course "Sustainable Development" (mech425), a course taught by Joshua Pearce. To see our schedule, click --> Mech425 schedule.
Mech 425 Course Projects
Our first team project is to summarize an article to Appropedia. Our article is on 'Local Self Reliance' - it's from the AT Encyclopedia and is under the titleLocal Responses to Global Problems: A Key to Meeting Basic Human Needs, by Bruce Stokes in 1978.
Our second team project is Green IT on Energy monitoring.
Check them out, quite well done if I may say so myself - Einstein would definitely be envious.
Appropriate Technology Projects can be found here: Mech425 AT Project
Engineering Projects
I am currently working on the following projects in my final year at Queen's University:
- Technology, Engineering and Management (TEAM: APSC 400) -confidential-
http://team.appsci.queensu.ca/index.php
- Introduction to Entrepreneurship (COMM 405) - Business Plan for Solar Power Entrepreneurship in Ontario
- Sustainable Development (mech425) - Green IT "Behavioural Energy Monitoring"
- Transport Phenomena (CHEE 412) - Mathematical Modeling of Evacuated (vacuum) Solar Cells for Water Purification
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