Testimonials
Testimonials
Riley Mulhern, Disinfecting Water with UV Light
The BeAM Design Innovation Hub at UNC was crucial to my doctoral research! In order to evaluate the effectiveness of household water filters, I needed a way to precisely measure the water use in people’s homes. I was also testing an innovative device to disinfect the water at people’s taps using UV light and needed to integrate a prototype from a separate manufacturer into the filter and flow meter. I had no idea how to do any of this! I reached out to the BeAM Design Innovation Hub and found a wealth of resources and support available to me. Glenn Walters helped me integrate the flow meter with the UV device by designing, testing, and manufacturing a custom circuit board connected to a data logger that I installed in 20 people’s homes, leading to crucial data on the lifetime and performance of consumer water filters in real world situations. I believe the BeAM Design Innovation Hub is one of the most important and unique assets available to researchers at UNC Chapel Hill.