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Design Of A Single Family Home And Rooftop Rainwater Catchment System In Nepal Using Earthbag Technology, Makena Wong, Olivia Carreon, Nabila Farah Franco
Design Of A Single Family Home And Rooftop Rainwater Catchment System In Nepal Using Earthbag Technology, Makena Wong, Olivia Carreon, Nabila Farah Franco
Civil, Environmental and Sustainable Engineering Senior Theses
After the devastating April 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal, entire villages were destroyed and remain unbuilt. In addition, rural subsistence farmers in the village of Takure, Nepal are struggling to provide for their families due to a long seasonal dry season from October to May.8 In order to address this crisis, this team designed and implemented a simple earthbag house with a rooftop rainwater catchment system for homeless villagers in Takure. This single-family house design aimed to address Takure’s most urgent needs by being seismically-resistant, locally sourced, economically feasible, and sustainable. The project also created valuable benefits for the Takure …
Structural Calculations For Nepal Vocational Learning Center, Nicholas Petrarca
Structural Calculations For Nepal Vocational Learning Center, Nicholas Petrarca
Architectural Engineering
This project goal is to build a Leadership Vocational School for youth, women, differently abled, and local leaders of rural and Kathmandu Nepal. The client for this project is an organization called Sakcham Rural Nepal and they partnered with a humanitarian organization called Journeyman International to find Architecture and Architectural Engineering students to design a safe, attractive and functional building to fit their needs.
Adaptive Eating Device, Patrick Yale, Jillian Hiu, Jeremy Black, Kevin Farmer
Adaptive Eating Device, Patrick Yale, Jillian Hiu, Jeremy Black, Kevin Farmer
Mechanical Engineering
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School Van Access In Nepal, Edgar Corona, Humberto Maldonado, Josh Schiesl
School Van Access In Nepal, Edgar Corona, Humberto Maldonado, Josh Schiesl
Mechanical Engineering
A need has been identified by a school in Nepal intended for children with Cerebral Palsy, called Sathi Sansar, to develop a more effective solution to loading and unloading students onto the school’s Toyota HiAce van. Currently, a combination of the driver, parents and teachers manually help the students on and off the van. However, this task has proven to be both laborious and time consuming for all parties involved. A solution to this problem needs to be designed and one is currently being developed by a team of engineering students from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo and Katmandu …