Week 1

Freshman Design- A Better Water Filter in Ten Weeks

• Our group of four students (Joe Massott, Laura Blumenstock, Josh Lee, Steve Guarini) is tasked with designing and testing a small scale biofilm water filter.
• Every week a series of tasks are worked on in order to efficiently create our unique apparatus.
• Using sand, rusty nails, and a layer of living microorganisms, we're going to collaborate and compete with other students in the ENGR 103-070 class in order to aggregate and apply data from different setups.
• Week one consisted of a group meetup where we discussed the direction in which we want to take the design. We assigned roles, wrote up a preliminary report, and made a sketch of our ideas.