The ProblemaImplement TDG into curriculum
Dr. Glen Daigger, a renowned wastewater treatment expert and Professor of Environmental Biotechnology at the University of Michigan, has implemented TDG as part of his curriculum for a senior design course that includes biological wastewater treatment
Dr. Daigger’s students are provided a ‘hands on’ experience acting in a ‘real world’ setting to complete a wastewater treatment project.
University of Michigan uses TDG
TDG is not a required tool to use as part of the curriculum, just like in the real world. It’s up to the students whether they choose to use it. Students are tasked with developing a design concept idea and doing that in the most efficient way possible.
This year, two teams assigned one or two people to look at using the software. They quickly realized the benefits that TDG could bring to their preliminary design work after trying to develop calculations and designs the ‘traditional,’ manual way.
Key Wins
Cavagnaro sees a big difference in the success of the teams who use TDG and those who don’t. “There was one person on each team that went through the whole problem-solving process with Transcend. One of them got a lot of information about the building related spaces, the office space, restrooms, conference rooms. They were able to take editable Excel files to do analysis and compare process models between Transcend and SUMO.
