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ASCE SJ Branch January 2020 Meeting - Rowan EWB

When:
Thursday, January 23, 2020, 5:30 PM until 8:30 PM
Where:
Rowan University Campus, South Jersey Tech Park
Room 247
107 Gilbreth Parkway
Mullica Hill, NJ  08062
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ASCE SJ Branch January 2020 Meeting - Rowan EWB

 

When
Thursday, January 23, 2020 from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM EST
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Where

Rowan University Campus, South Jersey Tech Park
107 Gilbreth Pkwy
Room 247
Mullica Hill, NJ 08062
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Hey Briana,

 

ASCE South Jersey Branch would like to invite you to our next Technical Meeting on Thursday, January 23rd, 2020, located at Rowan University Campus, South Jersey Tech Park,107 Gilbreth Pkwy, Room 247, Mullica Hill, NJ 08062.


Topic:

Part I: Rowan Engineers-Without-Borders: Overview of Domestic and International Project

Part II: Balanced Mix Design and Performance Evaluation for Cold in Place Recycling (CIR) Mixtures


Networking - 5:30 pm

Dinner - 6:00 pm

Presentation - 7:00 pm

 

 

 


ASCE SJ Branch January 2020 Meeting - Rowan EWB

 

Part I: Rowan University's Engineers without Borders Chapter is a team of multidisciplinary engineering students who coordinate with various engineering staff and apply their curriculum to real world problems both locally and internationally.During the past year, the Rowan EWB team worked on our local project located in Camden, NJ as well as our international project located in Ranshet, India. Because the situation Ranshet, India had changed so drastically since our initial Assessment trip in 2018 (including administrative changes and a donation of solar panels), the EWB team performed a 2nd Assessment trip to India in July 2019. Following our return, we created a new Alternatives Analysis for the Ranshet School community that better addresses their current situation. This community received a donation of solar panels which rectified their previous issue of power outages. However, the school's current water source is unable to provide them with a sufficient amount of water for their students and faculty. The team determined four potential implementation solutions that could address their water supply issue. The solution decided upon by both the EWB team and the school administration is the construction of a water distribution system. This new system would pump water from an existing well located approximately 900 meters away from the school's grounds, using the previously donated solar panels to power the pump. Additionally, a filtration system will be placed along the pipeline in order to make the well water suitable for consumption. The team is currently working on an implementation report to complete this phase of the project. The team will travel during Spring Break of the Spring 2020 semester to complete this implementation. Assuming all goes as planned and the implementation works as intended, the team will travel once more a year later to ensure the project is being maintained by the community before closing out the project.

Vietlead is a non-profit community organization that reached out to Rowan EWB in the spring of 2018 for help with their Resilient Roots garden located in Camden, NJ. Since that time we have completed a rainwater catchment system which works as intended and provides the Vietlead volunteers with the water needed for the garden. Additionally, we created a bicycle-powered water pump which was done by modifying a pump to be operated via the friction of a bicycle tire. This will allow the Vietlead volunteers to more easily water their garden while remaining completely green. Currently, the EWB team is completing construction of a greenhouse and compost tumblers for the garden which are both on track to be completed early on in the spring 2020 semester. Additionally, Rowan-EWB has partnered with Rutgers-EWB to design and construct a walk-in cooler for Resilient Roots to store their harvested produce and crops on site. We are currently finishing up our design for this walk-in cooler with construction set to begin in early to mid-Spring 2020 semester.

Part II:State Highway Agencies (SHAs) are looking for more sustainable practices for flexible pavement rehabilitation. One method is the use of Cold In-place Recycling (CIR) for the use as a stabilized base layer in asphalt roadways. However, few studies have looked at developing a performance-based mix design procedures for CIR and evaluated the long-term performance. Therefore, the goal of this study was to develop a performance-based mix design procedure and then evaluate the long-term performance of CIR using the Heavy Vehicle Simulator (HVS) at Rowan University CREATEs. The research study then investigated the costs and benefits of implementing CIR mixtures in place of conventional rehabilitation techniques such as a mill and overlay. This study resulted in three major components (i) a design procedure for CIR mixtures based on performance, (ii) long-term evaluation of CIR, and (iii) an economic and environmental costs assessment of CIR. Overall, the outcomes of the research study showed that there are performance and economic benefits to SHAs when using CIR mixtures. (1 PDH will be provided.)

 

Cost: $35 per person; Students Free

 

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We hope to see you there!

 

Sincerely,

 

Ryan Veasy

SJASCE

ryan.veasy@stantec.com

856-242-6047