Sustainability Award
Students Win Sustainability Award For Geysir Project
Students in the Practical Project course in the third year of the Applied Energy/Mechanical Engineering program built a model Geysir under Associate Professor Michael S. Moorhead's mentoring that exceeded expectations. Water reached heights above the University's second floor. The Sustainable Institute and Forum's February 2020 Project Grants funded the construction. The grant was awarded to Juliet Newson, Director of the Iceland School of Energy.
The model geysir acts to provide a valuable teaching tool to allow students to understand what happens when naturally formed geysirs erupt visually. The project was a helpful teaching tool also for the students in the course. The students agreed that practical projects such as the Geysir's project are excellent exercises in group work and that you learn a lot in project-based learning.
Projects like this are a good way to learn different construction and working methods. This is the third course we have taken based on a practical project, and we are always most excited about these courses. We feel that by far we learn the most from these practical projects that we do, regardless of whether it is in courses that are purely practical and the same when we do smaller practical projects within other courses,
says Bjarni Sævar Sveinsson and his fellow students, Jökull Þór Kristjánsson, Stefán Ottó Kristinsson, Þorgeir Freyr Gíslason, Örvar Þór Örlygsson and Aron Þorbjörnsson who worked on the Geysir project together.
