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Ryan Shelby Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Berkeley

CARES Co-Founder Unity High School Oakland, CA March 13, 2012

About Me

Ph.D. Candidate at UC Berkeley Mechanical Engineering Research Interests Sustainability Renewable Energy Systems Modeling Energy Policy Community Based Design User Needs Assessment Public Participation Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES) Co-founder Program Manager

Pinoleville Pomo Nation Approach Partnership (2008-Current)

Co-designing & weaving together the various energy technologies in building designs
Goals: Low cost, Energy efficiency Natural materials (strawbale) Net zero or positive energy buildings

Americas Need For Scientists, Technologists, Engineers, & Mathematicians

Americas economic and political strength is based on its people

We are not training educating & training enough teachers and students for STEM
How can we compete in the future? Women and Minority Students

100,000 STEM teachers over the next 10 years 1 million STEM graduates over the next 10 years are needed we must have plenty of men and women trained in science, for upon them depends both the creation of new knowledge and its application to practical purposes
Vannevar Bush , Father of the NSF

Engineering Design Process (EDP) Process Overview

Opportunity Recognition

Idea Creation

Idea Selection

Idea Development

Idea Testing

Idea Implementation

Idea Expansion & Adoption

End Goal: Create a product and/or service that meets an objective(s) Engineering design teams typically are implored to do so

Why did I choose Engineering?

Large interest in figuring out how stuff worked

Work on dads tractor Took apart vacuums Played with Legos!!!

Focused on History and Philosophy in HS

Allowed me to ask the why and what if questions

Engineering allowed me to understand the nuts and bolts of the world

The how questions

Concerns about Engineering

Never met an engineer growing up

Only thought that smart people

Did not know who to afford college

Mom is school teacher Dad is a cattle rancher/miner Not a lot of money for 3 boys

Engineering allowed me to understand the nuts and bolts of the world

The how questions

Q/A?