National Engineering Month2009

Engineering Idol Heat Recovery Ventilators

Professional Engineers OntarioEtobicoke Chapter

Martingrove Collegiate InstituteEtobicoke Collegiate InstituteMichael Power / St. Joseph High SchoolRichview Collegiate InstituteSilverthorn Collegiate InstituteBishop Allen AcademyScarlett Heights Entrepreneurial Academy

The Teams

Engineering Idol is not a Heat Recovery Ventilator (HRV) building contest

Engineering Idol is an opportunity for you to experience the Profession of Engineering

Concept Sketch Showing “Industrial Unit”

Teams design/build this portion as they see fit

Flanges

Test Equipment includes Controls / Fans

See www.engineeringidol.com for specifications (sizes, air flow, fan speed, control points) to be considered in joining your HRV to the test equipment

Engineering involves creativity, technology and calculations

BUT, Engineering is also about team work, selling yourself, dealing with difficult situations and behaving professionally at all times!

Engineering Idol challenges you to demonstrate to the judges that your school has the best Engineering Team

• Your school is an international Engineering Firm competing for a contract

• Your Supervising Teacher or Volunteer is your manager

• Your team is made up of talented Engineers from several fields that develop proposals for Engineering Projects around the world

The Challenge

• Within your team should be individuals with various talents across several fields of engineering

• A group of shrewd investors wishes to build a new type of economically viable HRV to be installed in houses in Canada

• The investors have hired the 3 consultants (judges) to pick the team that will bring them the best success with this project

The Challenge

• Scientific thought

• Originality

• Skill in execution

• Team cohesiveness

• Written concept design report

• Oral presentation

Judging Criteria

• January 5th, your list of team members should have been submitted

• February 6th, your team will submit a Design Concept Report to Mr. Richard Weldon, P.Eng.

• February 28th Competition Day – bring the following• Notes to talk with the judges• 4 – 5 minute oral presentation• Design and materials for building and testing your HRV• Receipts for materials (< $150)

Deliverables

We have available to you a Mechanical Engineer who is an expert in the field of energy efficient design of building mechanical systems

The Technical Expert will act as a consultant for your team

From now until Competition Day, your team can send a total of 3 emails (maximum 100 words of questions per email)

Consulting Time for You

The design and performance of your HRV is a small portion of the team evaluation

You are required to cost effectively select and purchase the materials to build the HRV

You should research a proposed HRV Design that you will create on Competition Day

The written concept design report includes your proposed design, your list of materials and cost

Designing and Building Your HRV

Your HRV

• You have been given 2 flanges as the interface between your HRV and the test equipment

• The test equipment houses all fans and mechanical equipment that will force air through the flanges into your HRV

• The technical specifications for the test equipment (e.g flow rates) are found on the website www.engineeringidol.com

EQUIPMENT SET UP

Your design and material list, as submitted in the Design Concept Report, MUST first be approved before you can buy the materials

(due February 6, 2009 to Richard Weldon)

You Need Approval for Materials!

February 28, 2009• 10 am at Father John Redmond Catholic Secondary

School, 28 Colonel Samuel Smith Park Drive, Etobicoke• Lunch will be provided• Basic hand & power tools will be provided• Let us know if you require special tools• Photos will be taken• Politicians will be coming• Professional Engineers Ontario will be there• Your friends and family may like to be there for the

awards and HRV testing (after 2:00 PM)

The Competition Day

• Bring your notes – evidence to the judges that you have come prepared

• Bring your 4 – 5 minute presentation – you will present it to the judges and to the public audience

• Bring your HRV materials and design – we will spend the day building, tweaking and then testing the designs!

The Competition Day

• Only 1 rule – all team members need to participate

• Use the presentation to sell your team and design to the judges

• What engineering design elements will you discuss during your presentation?

Presentations

• The 7 HRVs will be tested in the afternoon• The Supervising Teacher or Volunteer

from each school will be expected to help ensure instructions from the Testing Engineer and safe work practices are observed

• Electrical equipment and rotating pieces of equipment are always treated with respect!

Safety

Web links you should know

The design details are kept on our website for you to download at www.engineeringidol.com

Engineering Idol has a Facebook group:

“Engineering Idol”

QUESTIONS?