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Table of Contents 1 Project Overview 2 Final Designs 3 Administrative Information 4 Team Documents 4.1 Primary Documentation 4.2 Additional Documentation

Project Overview

Currently two billion people live without clean, healthy, reliable lighting or power. Many of these people use gas and oil lamps, which produce a great deal of soot and carbon dioxide in addition to consuming vast amounts of fuel to produce relatively little usable lighting. This project seeks to provide a clean, reliable, inexpensive, and non-power-dependent source of light for use in developing nations. While there may be many possible solutions which arise from this project, at the moment it is proposed that LED lighting technologies be used as they have a high efficiency and a nearly unmatched lifetime.

Project Information Summary

Final Designs

Power and Light Modules

Our LED lamp vs kerosene lamp

Special thanks to our non-profit parnters

Administrative Information

Project Name:

LED Lighting Technologies for a Sustainable Lighting Solution in Developing Nations

Project Number:

P08427

Project Family:

Sustainable Technologies for the Third World

Track:

Sustainable Products, Systems, and Technologies

Start Term:

2008-2

End Term:

2008-3

Student Team Members:

Name	Discipline	Role / Skills
Ian Frank	ME	Team Leader- coordinate all team activities, will provide guidance and assistance to all team members when and where needed, Human interfacing
Matt Walter	ME	Chief Engineer- will oversee the technical design, responsible for mechanical aspects of the energy system.
Nick Balducci	ME	CAD work, machining, and mechanical testing
Jesse Steiner	EE	Power supply side of the electrical sub-system and controls
Mike Celentano	EE	Power storage and light emitting parts of the electrical sub-system. Light distribution design
Luke Spencer	ISE	Design for manufacture, sustainability, and environmental concerns

Faculty Team Members:

Name	Discipline	Role / Skills
Dr. Robert Stevens	ME	Faculty Guide, Will work closely with the team on an on-going basis to facilitate success.
Dr. Vincent Amuso	EE	Faculty Consultant, Will provide EE discipline technical support on an intermittent basis.
Mr. Ed Hanzlik	Career Engineer	Retired XEROX employee, Will provide input to student teams throughout the first five weeks of the design process

Primary Customer:

People in developing nations currently living without a clean/healthy light source or power

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Customer contact information:

TBD

Team Documents

Primary Documentation

Planning	Concept Development	Design	Published Documents
Mission Statement Staffing Requirements Customer Constraints Intellectual Property Considerations Preliminary Work Breakdown Structure Key Goals and Overall Breakdown Risks Team Values and Norms Grading Rubric Required Resources	Identify Customer Needs Competitive Benchmarking Establish Specifications Generate Product Concepts Select Product Concept(s)	Deliverable Tracking Documentation Product Architecture Engineering Schematics Thermal Analysis Light Distribution Components and Assembly Robust Design Design for the Environment and Sustainability Prototyping	EPA P3 Phase I Proposal System Level Design Review Documents (SD I) Detailed Design Review Documents (SD I) Managerial Design Review Presentation (SD I) EPA P3 Phase I Summary & Phase II Proposal EPA P3 Posters: Main Poster & Supplemental Poster Technical Conference Publication (SD II) Poster Publication (SD II) Managerial Design Review Presentation (SD II) Photo Gallery

Additional Documentation

Meeting Information

Weekly MSD Deliverables

DPM Presentations

Purchasing

Marketing and Business Planning

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