Mustard Seed Community Project
Sponsor: Royal Dutch Shell
EDSGN 100H, Section 001: Intro Engr Design
Submitted to: Professor Sven Bilen
November 29, 2007
Team AKEA
Kerri Smyth
Amanda Mills
Elizabeth Lindsay
Arwen Kandt
Prototypes:
Education:
| Training Program for Staff | Concept 4 |
| How to train the staff | Questionnaires, Presentation, Hands-on training, Reading |
| What to teach the staff | Own training program, assess resident abilities, emergency training |
| Where to teach the staff | Caretaker Community, Various housing units |
| How to evaluate staff progress | Written tests, current staff surveys |
| How to evaluate progress of staff's training program | How many students have learned to work, resident effectiveness, staff surveys |
| Continued training | Annually |
| Staff Responsibilities | |
| Assess resident abilities | Resident history, resident surveys, talk to close friends |
| Develop and implement training program for residents | Hands-on training, demonstration, games, small group/individual training |
| Develop mentoring program | Ratio dependent on resident abilities |
Water Treatment:
Abstract:
Our team’s goal was to develop a water treatment process and a staff training program to implement in the Mustard Seed Community in Jamaica to help make the community self-sustainable. Using the engineering design process, we began by researching other processes and programs used in similar communities and used this information to form customer needs. After generating numerous concepts, we used selection matrices to choose the best ones. In the education program, we are training the MSC staff how to assess mentally disabled residents and how to teach them to perform certain tasks that will help keep the community running. The water treatment process is cheap enough to implement in the community and is simple to use; it does not need much maintenance. We accomplished our goal of creating systems that could help the community eventually become self-sustainable. The following report outlines the design process and the development of the final concepts.
Table of Contents:
Introduction and Problem Statement
Description of Design Operation