Agri-Food Social Enterprise Greenhouse Lighting Product Development
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Mechanical engineering Hardware product design Product or service launchSkills
mechanical designGreenhouse Lighting makes up more than half the cost of a year-round Far North greenhouse facility that grows food. As such, our organization is seeking to develop an effective solution for our greenhouses to ensure we can reduce cost by developing and assembling in-house. We need to develop an appropriate electrical / electronics / mechanical design for the proposed luminaires, which can be completed in multiple course scopes.
We are looking to work with students in engineering to create these design proposals.
Benjamin is an urban ecologist engineering professional with a 15-year record of rapid promotion, senior-level experience, and demonstrated knowledge in systems engineering technology, application development, and lighting subject matter expertise. Proven leadership prowess and team-building ability. Verified success in advocating for and teaching new applications; recently working with one of the world’s most innovative scientific laboratories—Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) national laboratories—while leveraging expertise in application development processes honed in a career of project, product, and production direction.
About the company
AgriTech North is an Indigenous- (Métis), disabled-, and LGBTQ-owned social enterprise corporation with a mission to grow nutritious food for Northern Ontario, focusing on Far North indigenous communities, that is of a consistently high quality, available year-round, and provided at a competitive price. The facility will be located in Dryden, Ontario, Canada to harness the waste heat, energy, and carbon from the Domtar Mill, establishing a Biohub with carbon negative operations. Dryden is ideal because of favorable transportation capabilities throughout the region and workforce access. The revenue from the food sold will ensure it is self-sustaining long-term as a research center. After proving the success of novel methods, AgriTech North will expand successful research projects throughout Canada to tackle a wider variety of food security issues throughout the country, made possible in part via several academic and indigenous partnerships.