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Throughout the Summer 2008 term, important changes were made to our automated design algorithms to make them more effiecient and user friendly. We've also worked to incorporate a shallow plant design into our Automated Design Programs. This Shallow Plant Design allows for decreased construction costs, but also created the need for a new sedimentation tank inlet design.

At the end of the Summer 2008 term, the Master Program has been fully linked. Much testing and debugging of this program needs to be done in the future to ensure the accuracy of this design tool.

Design Team Members: Alissa Diminich, Nicole Gumbs, Daniel Menendez, Sara Schwetschenau, Sarah Stodter

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During the Spring 2008 semester significant advances were made to the design alogrithms by the Unit Processes team and the Hydraulic Design team. The Hydraulic Design and Unit Processes teams from the Automated Design Team were responsible for determining the best algorithms for each component of the water treatment plant.

The work of each of these teams began linking towards the end of the Spring 2008 semester in order to create a single Automated Design Program and during the Summer 2008 term nearly all of the drawing programs have been linked to the design programs in the Master Program. The ensemble constitutes the automated design program that will be used by the AguaClara team to quickly develop plans for new water treatment plants -to be built in Honduras. At the end of the Spring 2008 semester much work was still necessary to fully integrate the design algorithms make them more efficient.

Design Team Members: Leslie Campbell, Alissa Diminich, Becky Katz, Sarah Long, Rachael Moxley, Tania Quesada, Anastasia Rudenko, Raul Santiago, Cherish Scott, Tamar Sharabi, Vimala Adapala

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