Curriculum
The Research and Mentoring Program on Sustainable building includes the following activities:
- Lectures on sustainability and engineering by University of Colorado Boulder faculty
- Workshop on sustainable building materials (straw bale construction)
- Start to finish residential solar install with Grid Alternatives (a solar non-profit organization in Denver)
- Engineering field research (energy audits and indoor air quality monitoring) in Tribal homes at N. Cheyenne Reservation
- Mentoring talks by AISES professionals (American Indian Science and Engineering Society) from Colorado, Pine Ridge, and Rosebud.
- Engineering design challenges (design and assembly of a mold sampler for indoor air quality monitoring)
- Engineering research in journals, online, and other publications
- Development of research abstracts and posters for presentation at the National Science Foundation’s annual Emerging Researchers Network in Washington DC in 2016