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The Tippy Tap hand-washing station is an inexpensive and effective device used extensively in the developing world. One shortcoming of the homemade device is that it must be manually refilled with water and therefore is of limited use in high-traffic areas. In this activity, student teams design, prototype and test piping systems to transport water from a storage tank to an existing Tippy Tap hand-washing station, thereby creating a more efficient hand-washing station. Through this example service-learning engineering project, students learn basic fluid dynamic principles that are needed for creating efficient piping systems.
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altruistic design, civil engineering projects, device, disease control, fluid dynamics, philanthropic, project-based, service-based learning, water transport, bernoulli's equation, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, tippy tap, fitting, head loss, piping system
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