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Episode 2: Schneider Electric DC1415

Design Clinic Download16 Oct 202222 min

With Nicole DeChello, Emily Dixon, Emily Lane and Melinda Pontes

Wide view of a process-engineering plant with towers, pipework, tanks and industrial buildings

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Smith College · Susannah Howe · Original episode · CC-BY-4.0

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Four graduates revisit the design of a low-flow measurement device intended to integrate with a vortex flowmeter.

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Design Clinic Download30 Oct 202424 min

A team reflects on designing solar-powered irrigation for a two-acre farm and a calculator for sizing arrays on similar sites.

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Design Clinic Download10 Jan 202316 min

Smith graduates discuss their Northampton Department of Public Works project, developing a design for nitrogen reduction at a wastewater treatment plant.

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