HIGH-PERFORMANCE, LOW-TECH
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    • Environment Box
    • Passive Refrigeration
    • Water Cooling
    • Fog Catching
    • Roof Geometries
    • Optimal Insulation
    • Cooler Windcatcher
    • Green Machine
    • Mitigating Humidity
    • Convective Air Flow
    • Styrene Reuse
    • Thermal Reflection
    • ETFE Rigidification
    • Phase Change Materials
    • Polar Reflection
    • Cavity Depth Variation
    • Vapor Permeability
    • Algae Facade
    • Moisture Buffering
    • Engineered Geometries
    • Recycled Desiccant Materials
    • Living Wall
    • Solar Shading Facades
    • SHADESin.reACTION
    • Low-Fab Dehumidification
    • Breathing Wall
    • Urban Heat Island
    • Acoustical Design
    • Latent Heat of PCM's
    • Insulative Qualities of Air
  • About
  • Lectures
    • Building Science Basics I
    • Building Science Basics II
    • Research & Literature Review
    • Scales of Fabrication
    • Electronics
    • Methodology
    • Graphical Excellence
    • Moving Graphics
  • Assignments
    • 1: Research Proposal
    • 2: Prototype
    • 3: Data
    • 4: Design Proposal
    • Presentation & Paper
  • Workshops
    • Thermal Scavenger Hunt
    • Balance Point Game
    • Advanced Shop Training
    • Basic Electronics
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    • Excel & Illustrator
    • Data Visualization
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Final Presentation (May 10, 2-4:30 PM)
Storrs Salon

Your presentation should largely follow the same format as your previous presentations. Each student will have 20 minutes, so try to keep your presentation at or under 10 minutes. Here's a rough outline that you could follow:
  • Introduction (start broad - don't get into too much detail too quickly)
  • Background (summary of your literature review, description of the region you're testing for)
  • Research question and hypothesis (tell us also why your work is important/relevant)
  • Fabrication process (enclosure, electronics, assembly, etc)
  • Methodology (be fairly general here. You will go into more detail in your paper. A good diagram will be extra helpful here!)
  • Results (lovely graphs/visualizations! Be sure to title them and include a small description of your findings)
  • Design Proposal (ASSN 4 - how are you putting these results to work? How can you tie it back to your original region of study?)
  • Reflections/conclusions (next steps, future work, what you learned, etc)
You may choose to present from the course website or from a PPT/PDF. If you use the course website, be sure to practice the transitions between pages and make sure all of your links work. Please make sure your final website content is uploaded by the paper deadline.

Guest panelists:
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Robby Sachs
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Ok-Kyun Im
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Alex Cabral
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Brett Tempest
Group 1 (panelists Robby & Ok-Kyun)
2:00 - 2:15  Introductions (all together)
​2:15 - 2:35  Sandhya (all together)
2:35 - 2:55  Callie
2:55 - 3:15  Ridab
3:15 - 3:25  Break
3:25 - 3:45  Alex
3:45 - 4:05  Jacob
4:05 - 4:25  Discussion (all together)
Group 2 (panelists Alex & Brett)
2:00 - 2:15  Introductions (all together)
​2:15 - 2:35  Sandhya (all together)
2:35 - 2:55  Michael
2:55 - 3:15  Samantha
3:15 - 3:25  Break
3:25 - 3:45  Tommy
3:45 - 4:05  Luke
4:05 - 4:25  Discussion (all together)

Final Paper (due May 12, 12 PM by email)

Your paper should follow the same general format as the journal papers that you read at the beginning of the semester. Additionally, it should use the same general outline that you use for your presentation. Note that 60-70% of your paper should already be written already, but you'll want to clean up that information, summarize your literature review, and synthesize your thoughts into one cohesive document. Word count is 3000-3500 words, not including the abstract and bibliography. Be sure to include proper citations and pictures are welcome! If there is extra information that you want to include in your paper, you may include an appendix, but not not feel the need to document every single thing you did this semester - that is what the website is for. The paper should be a concise synthesis of your work. There is no specific format for this document, but please submit your document in PDF format (by email). See the grading rubric below as well as sample papers from previous years.

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Grading Rubric

​Papers from previous years:
(for reference only - note that this was a slightly different course)
Camden Norris (2021)
Will Hutchins (2021)
Danielle Scaccia (2021)
Nicholas Rawlings (2021)
  • Projects
    • Environment Box
    • Passive Refrigeration
    • Water Cooling
    • Fog Catching
    • Roof Geometries
    • Optimal Insulation
    • Cooler Windcatcher
    • Green Machine
    • Mitigating Humidity
    • Convective Air Flow
    • Styrene Reuse
    • Thermal Reflection
    • ETFE Rigidification
    • Phase Change Materials
    • Polar Reflection
    • Cavity Depth Variation
    • Vapor Permeability
    • Algae Facade
    • Moisture Buffering
    • Engineered Geometries
    • Recycled Desiccant Materials
    • Living Wall
    • Solar Shading Facades
    • SHADESin.reACTION
    • Low-Fab Dehumidification
    • Breathing Wall
    • Urban Heat Island
    • Acoustical Design
    • Latent Heat of PCM's
    • Insulative Qualities of Air
  • About
  • Lectures
    • Building Science Basics I
    • Building Science Basics II
    • Research & Literature Review
    • Scales of Fabrication
    • Electronics
    • Methodology
    • Graphical Excellence
    • Moving Graphics
  • Assignments
    • 1: Research Proposal
    • 2: Prototype
    • 3: Data
    • 4: Design Proposal
    • Presentation & Paper
  • Workshops
    • Thermal Scavenger Hunt
    • Balance Point Game
    • Advanced Shop Training
    • Basic Electronics
    • Advanced Electronics
    • Excel & Illustrator
    • Data Visualization
    • Videos
    • Animations
  • Syllabus
  • Resources