May 16th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
- OSPE Spring Conference
- OSPE CPD: Engineering Education in the 21st Century
- OSPE CPD: Lean and Green Construction
- OSPE CPD: IT Discussion and Solar House Tour
- OSPE CPD: Sustainable Transportation Infrastructure
- OSPE CPD: Employment Law for Professional Engineers
- OSPE CPD: Employee Handbooks
- OSPE CPD: P.E. Board Law
Today and tomorrow I am attending “Partnership for Sustainability,” one of two large conferences that OSPE puts on every year for people to gain continuing professional development hours. Professional Engineers need 15 hours a year, and I stand to pick up 10 from this conference.
I have enough notes for several days worth of blog posts already, and the conference is only half over. Most of the lectures and exhibits today were enjoyable, though there were one or two where I felt like the presenters didn’t understand the theme of the conference.
I am not enjoying the 2 hours each way to the conference at the University of Cincinnati, but my Mercury Sable is a decent ride. I don’t have time tonight to type up my notes, so here is today’s Moment of Zen, a water fountain powered purely by solar panel:
Pictures of the Solar House at UC can be found in the NR gallery.
May 17th, 2008 at 9:11 am
If solar and wind actually work large-scale, I’m all for it. How long do you think we have before we can put them to practical use? Especially the solar, up here in the gray North.
May 17th, 2008 at 10:16 am
We’ve a way to go. The house they constructed cost about $500,000 for 800 sq. ft. The winner of the energy-efficient home contest was won by Germans sporting a $2 million house.