Malawi Compost Transporter
The main goal of this project is to design and make an electrically propelled machine that will allow Malawians to transport organic waste materials from their home to compost sites. Organic waste entails but is not limited to garbage, junk, and any other materials considered pollutant to the environment due to their toxicity. The partners for the task incorporate the individuals of Malawi who will be working the vehicle. Another partner is the whole nation of Malawi in light of the fact that, if fruitful, the tricycle will improve the work of the entire Malawian populace. The group accepts that the necessities of the customer and the partners are fundamentally the same as and meet the general objective. To address their issues, the vehicle should be effectively viable and manufactured with some normal homegrown materials to ease fixes. The vehicle additionally should be anything but difficult to work with practically zero electrical information required. Being lightweight and smaller is extremely useful as long as it is as yet ready to keep up a high payload limit and strength. The objective satisfies these necessities by assessing all client requirements and applying an answer for all prerequisites the clients needed.
Team Information
Aldawood Husain
Husain is majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He plans to graduate in the Spring of 2021 with a bachelor's degree. He was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and has been in the United States since November 2014. Husain is bilingual in Arabic and English. He has been volunteering for The Center of International Education at Northern Arizona University every semester since 2017. He is very interested in learning and expanding his knowledge and experience on how to interact with different cultures and languages. Also, he has been always trying to find new hobbies to expand his current hobbies. His goal is to implement his engineering skills to make a better community.
Email Address: hga28@nau.edu
Schmerfeld Connor
Connor is a mechanical engineering undergrad at Northern Arizona University. He was born and raised in Phoenix, AZ and later moved to the pines for college. Connor enjoys working on cars, building things, and camping. He has been given the task of creating a solid frame for the design as well as constructing the CAD Model. Connor hopes to gain the experience of helping others through engineering with this project, as that is the main goal for him in the end.
Email Address: cts242@nau.edu
Williams Hope
Hope Williams is a senior at Northern Arizona University studying Mechanical Engineering. She was born and raised in Texas and decided to go to NAU to be a member of the NAU Swim and Dive team and study Mechanical Engineering. Hope's main role for this project is the Budget Liaison. She is in charge of ensuring all of the supplies are ordered in a timely manner and the team stays under the budget given by the client.
Email Address: haw87@nau.edu
Zhang Shi
Shi Zhang is an international transfer student from China. He majors in Mechanical Engineering. He is the Web designer in the Malawi team, and have been focusing on the dumping mechanism for the base of the design
Email Address: sz283@nau.edu
Client Information
Dianne McDonnell
Assistant Professor of Practice
Northern Arizona University
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: Dianne.McDonnell@nau.edu
Client Requirements
The goal is to build a machine that is capable of transporting compost from one place to in a small village in Malawi. It will be a machine that is easy to use and easy to maintain as well. This project was created in order to help a poor country complete an everyday task much easier.