Engineering students design water pump in Ghana

Posted Fri, 06 May 2011 17:20:33 -0000

Sep 14, 2010

A community in the West African country of Ghana once again has access to its spring water - and income from selling the water to neighboring villages - thanks to a group of recent Ohio University mechanical engineering grads.

"It was field engineering at its best," said Nick Stormer, BSME '10, who served as team leader for Team Pump It Up, which designed a solar-powered water pumping system for the village of Maase-Offinso and installed it in July. "I don't think there could have been something more real-world or more difficult."

Stormer and four other June mechanical engineering graduates in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology - Adam Hensel, Brent Willey, Kegan Kavander and civil engineering grad Eric Gilliland - along with adviser Greg Kremer, associate professor of mechanical engineering, spent three weeks in Ghana installing the system they had designed as part of their senior design course.

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