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Project Driving Question

Withstanding Wicked Weather

 

Project Driving Question: 

How can we, as engineers, develop a plan to minimize weather-related damage in Massachusetts?

Project Information Sheet

Withstanding Wicked Weather

In this project you will investigate how weather impacts our lives in Massachusetts. You will meet with experts, read books and articles, appreciate and generate weather related art. You will analyze problems caused by weather (i.e. beach erosion, hail and harvests, ice dams, tornadoes, etc.) and design solutions that we could use here in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Wicked Weather!

Boston Globe - Storm brings flooding to Marshfield, Massachusetts

Mashable.com - Nor'easter brings flooding to Scituate, Massachusetts.

 

West Springfield Tornado - June 1, 2011

CNN - Norwood, Massachusetts 2015

 

Boston Globe - Ice Storm brings down trees in Worchester, Massachusetts in 2008 - close to 1 million residents lost power after this storm.

Storm Warning!

Image from: https://knox.villagesoup.com/p/storm-warning-for-signs-and-banners/348939

Questions to be thinking about

  • How do we design in such a way that structures can withstand wicked weather?
  • What kinds of wicked weather do our buildings in Massachusetts need to be able to endure?

Kinds of Wicked Weather

In Massachusetts, Wicked weather can bring high winds, water (rain, snow or hail) and extra high tides along the coast

Hurricanes

Blizzards/Nor'easters

Tornadoes

Hail/Sleet/Ice Storms

Microbursts

Droughts

Thunder/Lightning