Unity College - Sustainability Design and Technology BS

http://www.unity.edu/Academic/Majors/SustainableDesignAndTechnology/SustainableDesignAndTechnology.aspx

Unity, ME
Mick Womersley, Program Coordinator
mwomersley@unity.edu

Sustainability Design and Technology majors are architects for change. They see the rise in need for renewable energy as exciting, challenging, and addressable. They are both conceptual and technically inclined. They like to draw, debate, and use power tools. They wear work boots and overalls in the morning and clean-pressed shirts for presentations in the afternoon.

Sustainability Design and Technology majors ask difficult questions, explore multiple answers and can explain, in everyday terms, the best solutions. They travel, they hike, they go to meetings, and they build—turbines, towers, solar panels and rain recovery systems. They work on creating greener communities every day, and believe it is mandatory that the world wean itself from its over-dependence on fossil fuels.

What you’ll do
Your projects may include:Bio Fuel Project 2

* Building solar panels, anemometers and wind turbines
* Measuring the wind for a feasibility study
* Interviewing local townspeople and businesses to establish a preliminary community wind plan
* Building a solar-powered barn
* Researching domestic and foreign energy policies
* Writing technical reports on effectiveness of existing wind systems

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