thesis

Case studies for developing globally responsible engineers

Abstract

Document realitzat amb un ajut financer de la Unió Europea. Per poder accedir al material complementari per a docents dels 28 casos estudi que formen el llibre, activeu el "Document relacionat"Col·lecció de 28 casos estudi per a professors d'enginyeria: 1. Rural development and planning in LDCs: the “Gamba Deve – Licoma axis”,district of Caia, Mozambique 2. Reducing the impact of soil erosion and reservoir siltation on agricultural production and water availability: the case study of the Laaba catchment (Burkina Faso) 3. Trade and Mobility on the Rooftop of the World: Gravity Ropeways in Nepal 4. Sustainable Development of Agriculture and Food systems with regard to Water 5. Conservation agriculture: a complex avenue to conserve and improve soils 6. The national rural water supply and sanitation programme in Tanzania 7. Use of statistical tools in a development context. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) 8. Water supply system in Kojani Island (Zanzibar, Tanzania) 9. Faecal sludge management in Lusaka, Zambia 10. Water balance on the Central Rift Valley 11. Rural electrification in developing countries via autonomous micro-grids 12. Photovoltaics electrification in off-grid areas 13. Development of a MILP model to design wind-photovoltaic stand-alone electrification projects for isolated communities in developing countries 14. Estimation if indoor air pollution and health impacts due to biomass burning in rural Northern Ghana 15.Improved cookstoves assessment 16. Supporting the adoption of clean cookstoves and fuels: why won’t people adopt the perfect stove? 17. Do-it-yourself approach as appropriate technology for solar thermal system: the example of CDF Médina, Dakar (Senegal) 18. Essential oil extraction with concentrating solar thermal energy 19. Survival in the desert sun: cool food storage 20. Energy roadmap in Ghana and Botswana 21. Social & ethical issues in engineering 22. Radio communications systems in rural environments 23. A Diffserv transport network to bring 3G access to villages in the Amazon forest 24. Finding the poynting’s theorem in a health centre in San Pablo (Peru) 25. Tanzania, Water and health 26. Flood assessment and warning system 27. Technical aspects of municipal solid waste collection: case studies from East Africa 28. Plastic recyclingPeer ReviewedPostprint (published version

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