Spring 2020 CEDC Summit Booklet

CLEMSON ENGINEERS FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CEDC CEDC SPRING SUMMIT 2020

Introduction to Spring 2020 Since returning from winter break, CEDC students have been hard at work. We began our semester with a productive trip to Guatemala where a dozen students and faculty met with representatives from the University of San Carlos. We conducted site visits of potential areas to work and presented some of our research. The teams met with several university representatives, government officials, and humanitarian organizations during their time in country. From this trip, plans were made to have CEDC students return during spring break to further cultivate this new relationship and conduct assessments for potential projects. CEDC also prepared plans to travel to Haiti during this time, contingent on a safety assessment of the country due to continuing civil unrest. However, this spring we were faced with an unprecedented and unfortunate circumstance, related to the spread of COVID-19. CEDC took proactive measures by cancelling our trip plans to avoid potential quarantines in country or upon our return. As an organiztion we drafted our Continuity of Operations Plan in advance of the campus closures. CEDC took action to continue our research online for the remainder of the semester. Despite the challenge of continuing their schoolwork and research, CEDC students have maintained their momentum. We continue to meet and work on our projects remotely and understand now more than before what it is to be problem- solvers. We are optimistic that we will begin work again in-person as soon as it is safe. We look forward to returning to Haiti and Guatemala to further promote CEDC’s mission and values. 00 01 Madison Stanley, Program Director

CONTENTS CEDC Summit Booklet Spring 2020 Intro to Spring 2020 01 CEDC: At Home and Abroad 03 Functional Groups 05 Cultural Engagement 07 Current Operations 09 HERDS 11 Marketing 13 Program Management 15 Project Management 17 Technical Solutions 19 Project Management 21 Anderson Community Development 23 Aquaculture 25 Cange Hospital Operating Room 27 Caribbean Resilience - US Virgin Island Assessment 29 Community Health Surveillance 31 DIY Water Filter 33 Origami Emergency Shelter 35 Slow Sand Filter Research 37 Summerton - Solar Energy Town Center 39 Water Analyisis 41 A Special Thank you 43 02

CEDC: At Home and Abroad Alejandro Guzman CEDC Students and Guatemala Engagement interns CEDCis a student-led Creative Inquiry program that began with our founder, Jeff Plumbee, and just a couple of students at Clemson University. It has now grown into a corporation-like structure of over 70 students and faculty advisors. CEDC began by implementing the first chlorinated municipal water supply in Haiti, located in the town of Cange. Most recently, CEDC has been exploring partnership opportunities with Guatemala, Central America. Guatemala is characterized by their Spanish and Mayan culture. Home to about 17 million people, Guatemala’s economy is based on cultivating natural resources, business, and crafts. Most notably, Guatemalan coffee is recognized as the 10th most exported coffee in the world, accounting for over 8-9% of all their exports. While the capital, Guatemala City, is home to the majority of the urban activity there is a great amount of indigenous people, accounting for two-fifths of the total population. Indigenous people are spread across the country and make up much of the natural resource production, often under difficult conditions. After several months of planning, 7 CEDC student-interns accompanied by faculty advisors, industry advisors and The Citadel 03 Source: Britannica

vv Clemson and CUNSAC Students at the Summit Poster Presentation in Guatemala representatives arrived in Guatemala for the first time in January of 2020. A partnership is in development with the University group, Universidad de San Carlos, specifically in the Zacapa area of CUNSAC, Centro Universitario de Zacapa USAC, four hours from the capital. Here, as stated by our program director Madison Stanley in the introduction to Spring 2020, students visited the campus, people and faculty of the university, and had the opportunity to travel to a community of indigenous people about 1 hour up the mountains from Zacapa. An address to the community was made with the help of the CUNSAC faculty to speak to the community about the problems such as a lack of rainfall for their crops due to climate change, poor access to portable water and general malnutrition. Famine is a major issue among the people who live from the fruit, vegetables, and coffee beans which they grow. After futher understanding these problems, a Summit in Guatemala was conducted into the next day. Clemson University, The Citadel, CUNSAC, including the mayor of Zacapa attended in order to exhange ideas for the developing communities in both Guatemala and the United States. At Home and Abroad 04

05 FUNCTIONAL GROUPS EDC

What is a “Functional Group”? CEDCoperates as a mini global corporation with student leadership at all levels. Students self-govern and organize into functional groups and project related groups with an executive group of students providing oversight. The functional groups serve as a support structure for the organization. Essential tasks must be achieved f rom semester to semester by the functional groups for the organization to maintain its presence on campus, regionally, and internationally: this can include student recruitment, travel logistics, intern support, f inancials, inter-group collaboration, website and data management, and generation of high quality media. Our functional groups allow us to send groups of 10-12 students to internships each semester. Where they provide technological support to specif ic groups, promote our projects and organization to the public, balance our project and intern budget, and provide useful links in information to past CEDC work and current work. Students that develop in a functional role have a unique perspective of the organization. For a few semesters, they are supporting all of the projects and other endeavors of CEDC, so the students are developing a full picture of CEDC and all of its inner workings. Needless to say all of these students are extremely valuable to CEDC, and all of their hard work is greatly appreciated. Each functional group has anywhere from 2-6 students. Due to the imporance of the work the leader of the group has the title of “Director” and is required to attend a weekly Director’s Meeting in order to have direct contact with each of these integral groups throughout the week. Functional Groups 06

Cultural Engagment Functional Group (from left to right) Francisco Arriaga, Cultural Ambassador Jay Harmstad, Jessi Fernandez (from left to right) Zacapa community member Jose, CEDC Cultural Ambassador Jay Harmstad, Project Management Direcotor Ian Stewart in Pinalito, Guatemala 07

Increase awareness of cultures by focusing on activities and presentations with gloabl significance locally, regionally, and internationally Apaper written by the Ambassador gave presentations in American Society of class about the importance of food Engineering Education as it relates to cultural understanding highlighted the many ways and cultural considerations in engineering projects can and have communication with communities failed and is quoted as saying, “A lack that hold different beliefs and of understanding of the habits and superstitions. customs of partnering community can deem a project to fail from its Externally, after a trip to Zacapa very beginning.” ¹ For this reason, Guatemala in the beginning the Cultural Engagement team was of January 2020 a blossoming formed. The mission of the Cultural relationship showed a need for Engagement team is to increase understanding and connection awareness of other cultures within between La Universidad de San CEDC and externally by focusing Carlos (USAC) and CEDC. For that on activities and presentations reason, this semester one of Cultural with global significance on and off Engagement’s largest undertakings campus. was creating an itinerary for a trip for our USAC counterparts to visit Internally, we worked on and experience not only Clemson connecting CEDC students with University but also give them an opportunities to expand their understanding of the rich culture of cultural understanding of Latinx, South Carolina. Haitian, and South Carolina cultures. We accomplished this In the future, our aim is to continue by fostering a partnership with educating CEDC students about the the Clemson Latinx Organization importance of culture as it relates to Council (CLOC), supporting CEDC their projects and in their everyday student attendance at events such lives; As well as continuing to foster as CLOC’s game-night and movie relationships with our international night. Additionally, our project and domestic partnerships. manager and CEDC’s Cultural Cultural Engagment 08

Current Operations Functional Group AJ Sanders (not pictured) Director of Current Operations Margaret Downer, Liam Watts Community service organization who regularly partners with CEDC students in serving the community 09

Support CEDC in the coordination of logistics locally and in collaboration with project teams Cu r r e n t - O p e r a t i o n s In our Rebuild Upstate event, supports CEDC in we constructed a ramp for a the coordination of veteran who was unable to logistics that connect the safely enter and exit his home, work of the project teams which enabled him to attend in the classroom to the medical appointments implementation of projects locally and internationally. Due to the rapidly evolving In addition to standard situation regarding the trip planning processes, COVID-19 pandemic, CEDC Current Operations works to students were unable to embody the CEDC mantra travel to Guatemala or Haiti of “serving the developing for Spring Break. Current world and developing those Operations has been who serve” by organizing communicating with CEDC local community service Advisors and students in order efforts in the Upstate. to keep everyone updated on This semester, Current the situation. In order to adapt Operations successfully to the situation, CEDC has completed a Rebuild Upstate rapidly evolved our execution event, as well as organized strategy in an effort to adapt outside community service to an online format. We opportunities through can’t wait to have everyone Clemson HOPE and Pickens back together in the fall and County Habitat for Humanity, to continue to support the in an effort to give back to the incredible work our students local community. do! Current Operations 10

Humanitarian Engineering Research and Design Studio (HERDS) Functional Member Rob Smith - (HERDS) Director (HERDS) is the CEDC Headquarters outside of campus where engineering,design, and research progress is developed. Usually a team, this semester Ph.D candidate and Civil Engineer Rob Smith managed an exceptional renovation with help from everyone at CEDC. Renovated Room inside CEDC’s HERD Building 11

Oversees all opertaions to take place at the CEDC engineering, research, and design studio In this diff icult time, other Clemson organizations doing communities that are served humanitarian engineering and by CEDC may be among the research. most affected. At the Humanitarian Engineering Research and Design Additionally, with the Studio (HERDS), our job is to implementation of Clemson make sure the technical solutions University’s Online Learning engineered by CEDC students mandate and access restrictions can be successfully iterated and being imposed as the campus closed, refined, even as the facilities HERDS technicians have been where they are designed close declared essential personnel. This their doors. means the HERDS team has been in constant contact with project The HERDS team manages the management to maintain research maker space and laboratory when project teams were barred facilities for CEDC. This semester from work on campus. This included the HERDS team has expanded projects such as Water Analysis its role to managing materials and Slow Sand Filter which are requests and acquisitions, as well located at the South Carolina Water as cutting the ribbon on their Resources Center in Pendelton, SC. new facility in Seneca, SC, only 5 Even as essential personnel, HERDS minutes f rom campus. The new technicians have had to adapt as facility improves upon the HERDS the COVID-19 pandemic limits the capabilities with a strong floor for amount of time they can spend structural engineering applications, in the lab. As a result, HERDS has meeting spaces for team scale work, worked hand in hand with Technical and offices for HERDS technicians. Solutions and Faculty Advisors This move marks the start of several to establish protocols for mission long-term initiatives for CEDC and critical activities in the lab and for HERDS such as moving towards activities that can be conducted off net-zero facilities, providing for campus. design in the laboratory, offering HERDS 12

Marketing Functional Group (from left to right) Balsam Albayati, Director of Marketing Alejandro Guzman, Andrea Perla (Left) CEDC Spring 2020 T- Shirt Design (Right) Student Spotlight Social Media Post 13

Raise awareness to the amazing stories within CEDC and our projects through strategy and media Marketing and Branding student interns accompanied raises awareness to by administrators to engage the meaningful stories with the community and within Clemson Engineers for the University partnership. Developing Countries. Our intent Guatemalan publications is to bridge CEDC to a greater included the “Oriente” publishing international, domestic, and our visit in their local newspaper campus presence. This semester’s and Universidad de San Carlos scope of CEDC Marketing (USAC) also posting on their involved publications to local, online platform. regional, and international print/ online media as well as a presence Creative projects include the in our social media platforms. design and printing of CEDC T-shirts, the creation of social CEDC published three articles media graphics to support our this semester with The Pendelum, stories and the development CECAS and the Greenville News. of merchandise designed to One publication with Greenville raise the awareness of CEDC. News has been completed and CEDC Marketing has continued published on January 30th titled to highlight our exceptional “Clemson’s Engineering Program students and projects with our Aims to Meet South Carolina, Student Spotlight and Project worlds “Grand Challenges”. The Team Showcase campaign. In others have been written and are an external marketing effort in the editing phase. Recently, our United Nations Sustainable CEDC has been exploring Development goals also continue international work in Guatemala. to be posted on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Marketing 14

Program Managment Functional Group (from left to right) Assistant Program Director Madison Stiglich, Program Advancement Director Alexander Arzon, Program Director Madison Stanley CEDC class day where Program Management set up and made food relating to CEDC’s developing countries 15

Assess CEDC strategy and objectives and oversee any possible needs Together Program Manage- has focused primarily on the ment’s goal is to conduct a condensation and revision of CEDC’s productive semester, main- By-laws. tain collaboration between the directors’ board and communi- The most recent version of CEDC’s cation within the entire organiza- By-laws were published in Fall of 2017 tion, and ultimately set-up CEDC for but since then, CEDC has enjoyed success in the future. This semester much growth and embarked on the Program Director and Assis- many new opportunities; these tant specifically focused on incor- points considered, it is critical more porating the UN Sustainable Devel- than ever for CEDC to be governed opment Goals, guest speakers, and by concise guidelines that provide interactive discussion style presen- a clear and rigid framework, tations into our class meeting time. while simultaneously featuring A variety of topics were covered flexibility for CEDC as a whole including CEDC’s mission, cultural to pursue future opportunities competency and communication with minimal bureaucratic skills. This semester marked a tran- restraint. As a deliverable, CEDC sitional time in CEDC’s story as we will have a new and complete set continued our work in Haiti and of By-laws published for Spring South Carolina, while also begin- 2020. In the absence of an Internal ning to build relationships with Communications team this semester, partners in Guatemala. As an orga- Program Advancement has also nization we’ve faced many obsta- taken initiative to work closely cles recently from continuing polit- with the Cultural Engagement and ical unrest in Haiti to the COVID-19 Marketing & Branding Teams with outbreak. Thus, Program Manage- the goal of presenting a uniform ment’s priority this semester has mission and vision. As it is Program been to keep CEDC’s mission in the Management’s responsibility to forefront of every member’s mind, lead CEDC in accordance with our ensuring that we stay motivated organization’s core values, mission, and keep growing in the right direc- and vision, Program Advancement tion. This semester, the Program is taking strides to coalesce CEDC’s Advancement arm of CEDC’s voice in support of current and future Program Management structure partnerships. Program Management 16

Project Management Functional Group (from left to right) Project Management Director Max Pawlick, Assistant Project Management Director Grant Hummel, PMD Ian Stewart, APMD Trey Stewart, APMD Baily Leopard, (not pictured) APMD Riley Garvey Gantt chart from the Aquaculture group which is used as the schedule Project Management tracks 17

Manage CEDC productivity and communication within the organization Project Management is how projects can collaborate and dedicated to helping the to connect projects with students project groups plan, coor- and faculty with experience in dinate, and execute their proj- their project area. ects. The group is also respon- sible for accessing and tracking This semester, project manage- presentation skills of the project ment has further specified the and functional groups. Each roles of the APMDs and PMDs project designates one Project to f ree up more time to push Manager (PM) who oversees that projects forward. Communi- specific project. These students cations between APMDs and plan their project, assign tasks PMDs has been shifted from in to their group members, and person meetings with project make key project decisions. managers to email updates and Assistant Project Management check ins during class time. This Directors (APMDs) each oversee has saved time for all members 3 to 5 of the project groups. of project management. APMDs These managers are respon- are utilizing this extra time to sible for communicating project work more closely on scheduling needs throughout the organi- with PMs. The PMDs have used zation, ordering project mate- this time to implement Project rials, and overseeing project Critical Reviews. These meet- progress. Two Project Manage- ings occur twice a semester for ment Directors (PMDs) oversee every project group and provide the Assistant Project Manage- an opportunity for the manage- ment Directors. These students ment team and industry advi- are responsible for enforcing sors to review designs, research, and improving project manage- and the overall progress of the ment standards, developing project. Next semester, Project project management docu- Management plans to continue mentation, and connecting progress with these new devel- project groups with organiza- opments and organize our file tions outside CEDC. The Project structure within Microsoft Teams. Management group communi- cates frequently to determine Project Management 18

Technical Solutions Functional Group (from left to right) Victoria Malvoso, Director of Technical Solution Alex Nejman, Aman Garlapati, Josh Washburne Continuinity of Operations Protocol Document into Online Platform 19

Support CEDC through leveraging the technological power of the organization Technical Solutions, also scheduling, presentations, media, called TechSol, seeks to deliverables, archives, and Project support CEDC by lever- Life Cycle documents. This way, aging technological resources to groups can easily find what they better analyze and record data, are looking for, and reference assist with organization func- files from previous semesters. tions, work with project groups on technological components, Due to the implementation of and reach more students and online classes, TechSol developed potential partners. a Continuity of Operations Plan. This plan instructed This semester, TechSol worked CEDC members on how to use on implementing Microsoft Microsoft Teams to continue Teams as the main program meeting as a class and how to utilized in CEDC. Previously, hold specific meetings, such as multiple programs were used Director’s Meetings and Program to create and store files, and to Management meetings. We communicate. Microsoft Teams needed a way to meet as a class allows CEDC to do that and more, still, so we tested the video chat such as scheduling, video chat feature in Microsoft Teams. Since capabilities, and file sharing. By there is a limit of 250 people to streamlining all services into one one call, that was more than platform, information is much enough to account for our easier to access and there is members. unity amongst members. Each group has its own channel, split We have also been making between three Teams: Project improvements to the CEDC Groups, Functional Groups, and website. Since CEDC is expanding Resources. Within this, we also projects into other developing created and implemented a areas, including South Carolina, new file structure and naming we wanted to display that. We structure for the organization also wanted to reflect the new to use. This file structure divides mission statement and update files into six different categories: pictures. Technical Solutions 20

21 PROJECT MANAGEMENT EDC

What is “Project Management”? Project Management is the group that is dedicated to helping the project groups plan, coordinate, and execute their projects. CEDC has adopted a project management organizational structure that is conducive to productivity. Each of the project groups designates one Project Manager who oversees the immediate project. Then, there are Assistant Project Management Directors who oversee 3 to 5 projects. The final level in the project management structure is the two Project Management Directors who coordinate with the Assistant Project Management directors to ensure that all project groups are progressing. Generally, project management works in an administrative capacity. One way Project Management has sought to be more engaged in the projects is through weekly project management meetings. These meetings are intended for all project managers, assistant project management directors, and the project management director. They provide a more intimate environment for project groups to discuss the successes and setbacks in their projects in a way that is helpful to moving the project forward. Another effort to become more engaged in the projects is through use of the HERDS and South Carolina Water Resources Center. Project management has worked closely with the HERDS interns to ready these facilities for project use. Project Management will continue working on developing these makerspaces in order to maximize its utility to all project groups. Lastly, this semester, the project management directors worked with the Project Controls director to develop a schedule and budgeting system for the projects. Overall, project management is committed to working in conjunction with the project groups to ensure progress is made, and project management is committed to creating an environment that is encouraging to each project group. Project Management 22

Anderson Community Development Project Management (from left to right) Mario Flores, Project Manager Hannah Stewart Comprehensive Design Studio Midterm Review presentations 23

The Lot Project-Rejuvenating the Anderson, SC community after the departure of textile mills in the 1990s The city of Anderson, However, the bus system as it SC was hit hard by the currently stands is ineffective. decline of the textile It does not run on weekends industry in the United States. or in the evenings, making The mill neighborhoods in it impossible for those who which the mill workers lived do not work nine to five jobs were devastated and largely to get to work, go grocery have not recovered. One shopping, or find reliable such mill neighborhood access to health care. Our is known as the Alphabet future goal is to review the District. CEDC is working literature surrounding this with a local charity, The LOT issue to assess the most Project, to provide outreach effective solution to this to this neighborhood. The problem. LOT Project was founded in 2009 by Andy Gibson, and in This semester’s work has the ten years since has built been focused on planning for an organization focused on contact with key stakeholders lifting up the neighborhood. in the Anderson area in order The LOT Project is doing to identify potential partners great work in Anderson, moving forward. We’ve and we are working on developed a survey to gauge how CEDC’s and Clemson’s initial interest and to focus resources can be utilized our future conversations, and most effectively to assist we look forward to meeting with the LOT project’s work. with these stakeholders soon. Greater progress was Twenty-five percent of the made with the Architecture residents of the Alphabet Department who worked District do not have a car on designs to revitalize each and are reliant on walking or of the three former mill using public transportation. sites nearest to Downtown Anderson. Anderson Community Development 24

Aquaculture Project Management (from left to right) Jason Yeung, Grace Furman, Project Manager Rachel Twitty, Steven Poore Fish Farms owned by the fish farmers in Haiti in the town of Silgre on Lake Péilgre. Cages can hold 2,000 fish and the larger cages can hold 6,000 25

Designing a fish food that can be made with excess native agriculture material for a low cost alternative in developing countries The Aquaculture group -This has included obtaining of CEDC was created IACUC approval, f inalizing to increase production feed mixes, and ordering and profitability of aquacul- feed supplies. Through the ture systems in Cange, Haiti. help of Clemson faculty, this The group deduced that group has identified spaces fish food was the ultimate for testing in Clemson and is limiting factor of produc- working on finding a tilapia tion in Haiti. The fish food breeder. After this experiment currently used by the farmers is conducted, the Aquaculture is sold in Port Au Prince, tea m w i l l e s t a b l i s h a which is a 2-hour drive from communications strategy to Ba Cange. Even when the disseminate the information, farmers can make the trip and share the results with to Port Au Prince, this fish the Haitian farmers. The food is imported, expensive, farmers will evaluate it for cost and not always available for effectiveness and feasibility purchase. This team’s goal given the resources accessible is to develop a replacement to them, and ideally the fish fish feed that is easily acces- feed can be implemented in sible, more affordable, and Haiti. It is our long-term goal can be made using Haitian to create a scenario where agricultural products. these farmers will be able to grow Tilapia at lowered costs The focus this semester has which will lead to increased been preparing to conduct output and higher earnings an experiment in Clemson for these farmers. next fall to evaluate the efficacy of this new feed. Aquaculture 26

Cange Hospital Operating Room Project Management (from left to right) Emily McGill, Project Manager Jared Gaijunas, Symphanie Key, Leila Djerdjour Operating room #1 being considered for renovation 27

Redesigning and reengineering the OR of the Cange Hospital Room to include up-to-date resources and sanitation In Hôpital Bon Saveur de safer and more efficient in Cange, the operating partnership with Zanmi rooms do not meet Lasante. So far, our group has Word Health, ASHRAE accomplished many parts of (American Society of the design including research Heating, Refrigerating and pertaining to necessary Air-Conditioning), and FGI equipment in the operating (Facility Guidelines Institute) room, workflows, and optimal safety standards. The conditions for operation. operating rooms are currently Designs for the floor layout of not in service, and individuals the hospital have also been who require operation must developed with collaboration travel a lengthy distance to f rom Architecture + Health. the hospital in Mirebalais. This past semester, our group There is a need to open the has focused on using previous operating rooms in Cange research to construct the to alleviate some of the operating room schedule, burden from Mirebalais and HVAC (heating, ventilation, offer certain patients a more and air conditioning) designs convenient location. In the and calculations, as well as operating rooms in Cange, finish the sterilization, patient, there is a lack of sterile and nursing workflows. In the ventilation, minimal spacing future, our group will finish for surgery, and the layout of these designs and draft the equipment and workflow is initial construction budget inefficient and dangerous. for the project. From there, the plans will be turned Our group’s goal is to allow over to Zamni Lasante to be the operating rooms to implemented in Cange, Haiti. become functional again by designing the them to be Cange Hospital 28 Operating Room

Caribbean Resilience - US Virgin Island Assessment Project Management (from left to right) Project Manager Maggie Wentworth, Jacob Arnold, Mattew Lehr, Allison Meadows Map of US, British, and Spanish Virgin Islands 29

Analyzing the US Virgin Islands’ resilience in relation to their infrastructure in the case of natural disasters The U.S. Virgin Islands are energy options could be better comprised of four islands implemented. This has involved in the Caribbean: St. Croix, gathering as much quantitative St. Thomas, St. John, and Water and qualitative data on the USVI as Island. With the high frequency of possible. This was done in order to hurricanes in the Caribbean region, perform a rigorous analysis on which these islands commonly experience sections of the network are most infrastructure disruptions. Worse, necessary for the interconnected disasters such as Irma and Maria systems network together to in 2017 make total losses far from function; these sections are known unexpected. The islands have as critical points. Only so much also seen a history of economic data is available overseas, however, and political turmoil, rendering so to complete our assessment we their inf rastructure insuff icient will identify what we need to fill in for resisting such devastating the gaps in our data by working in events and the lower class more collaboration with the University susceptible to disruptions. These of the Virgin Islands. We are factors combined posits the need constructing an accurate disaster for resilient inf rastructure to be model of the USVI infrastructure established on the islands. to determine its critical points as Resilient infrastructure involves well as make recommendations for bolstering the utilities that are additional hazard and mitigation required for modern life, such plans. We will then focus on getting as clean water, power, and these recommendations to the transportation, such that they right positions of power, which maintain the highest output could lead to establishing resilient possible when disrupted by a infrastructure on the island and pave disaster and can be easily and the way to a more sustainable future. effectively restored to their status In the future, we hope to create a quo. Our work this semester focused cooperative learning bond with the on assessing the infrastructure University of the Virgin Islands so that on the islands to measure their future applications of the project can proceed. Caribbean Resilience 30

Community Health Surveillance Project Management (from left to right)Ludnie Rene, Megan Noonan, Project Manager Cora Bisbee, Madeleine Maylath Dr. Morse, physician and advisor for community health surveillance, giving presentation about the hypertension program 31

Designing a data and patient tracking system for hypertension clinics to run in developing countries through AnMed Health in Anderson The Community Health best evaluate this pre-existing Surveillance project system. This semester our works in partnership group completedInstitutional with physicians from the Review Board (IRB) forms to Episcopal Diocese of Upper conduct ethical research in South Carolina to address Haiti. Additionally, we finalized poor access to hypertension our patient education video treatment in the Central surveys that allow us to Plateau of Haiti. Currently, evaluate the effectiveness these villages rely on annual of our education materials. clinics run by American Finally, we have created doctors to diagnose patients a series of study protocol with hypertension. For the documents to ensure a remainder of the year, trained seamless transition into data volunteers, called community collection and observation heath workers (CHW), are once back in Haiti. in charge of monitoring patient’s blood pressure and Moving forward, our team distributing medications. plans to travel to Haiti to initiate Unfortunately, the exact our study and collect data on process flow of this system, the treatment program for and it’s efficiency are largely future publications. unknown. Our focus this semester has been to design the future study and decide how to Community Health Surveillance 32

DIY Water Filter Project Management (from left to right) Charlton Hill, Alex Walters, Project Manager Robert Falconer, Ashley Duncan String-wrapped prototype of the core element of the DIY Water Filter 33

Building a DIY Filter that can be made inexpensively in places without clean water Due to the limited We have a working prototype amount of resources and are currently creating and lack of advanced more designs to determine tools in rural Haiti, clean what the most effective water is a luxury many simply core is. Several factors are cannot afford. Many different to be considered in this communities do not have determination including how the financial ability to have a well the filter holds the yarn, properly working water filter. how easily it can be wrapped, Helping solve this issue is and the consistency of the the mission of the DIY Water yarn wrapping. Following Filter team. The main goal design, further testing will be is to help provide a simple, conducted on each prototype yet effective water filter that to investigate how effective it can be developed using the is at filtering to a bacterial- materials in Haiti that are sized particle. Once the cheap and inexpensive. It is design is finalized the group essential that the f ilter be will be working on creating both inexpensive, so more manuals for proper use of the people can have access to it filters as well as coordinating and use the resources that with local Haitian stores and are available in Haiti. Through shops to begin developing the our research, our team relationships needed to have a has determined the most coordinated implementation effective and inexpensive of the filter design. It is an f ilter is a yarn-based f ilter essential component of the with a 3-D printed core. design that it is not only effective in treating the water Our 3-D printed core design but is also a design that can best fulfills our mission of be replicated by the people providing aid to Haitian in Haiti or throughout the Communities. developing world. DIY Water Filter 34

Origami Emergency Shelter Project Management (from left to right) Project Manager Ben Tower, Andrew Bradley, Garrett Norris, Amanda Steel Origami Shelter Designs 35

Design a quickly deployable emergency shelter that can be utilized after a disaster Natural disasters have an arch shape, using the always been a problem Miura-Ori design pattern, on a global scale and which can be scaled up and they take a much heavier toll used to test different materials. on developing countries than In collaboration with Dr. the developed world. When Suyi Li of the Mechanical a natural disaster causes a Engineering department, nation’s inf rastructure to and a few of his graduate collapse, many families are students, we have been using displaced from their homes a plot cutter to create the fold and it can take months patterns that are first drafted for relief organizations in Solidworks. Dr. Li also to begin the rebuilding provided us a research paper process. Our goal is to use on the parameterizations the principles of origami to of the Miura-Ori design, design a quickly deployable, which we were able to use compact, safe, and cost- to develop a basic arch effective emergency shelter shape. We also conducted that can be utilized after a preliminary research on disaster for a sustainable potential materials to be used amount of time. The process in our emergency shelter of origami involves creating a design. The material must three-dimensional structure be foldable, inexpensive, out of a two-dimensional durable, and resistant to the surface, which makes the effects of weather, so many production extremely cost- of the materials candidates effective while still providing are plastic and paper-based. a lightweight and durable We will begin our materials product. testing in the Fall semester of 2020 and hope to have a Our team has been working full scale prototype by the with small scale paper Summer of 2021. models in order to develop Origami Emergency Shelter 36

Slow Sand Filter Research Project Management (from left to right) Jack Troiano, Project Manager Daniel Greene, Tristan Veal A cross-sectional view of the filter design 37

Designing a water filter with sand and biofilm for developing communities that lack access to clean water The purpose of the Slow For this design, coliform Sand Filter Project is to counts are determined before design and implement and after filtration. In order to an effective water filtration meet the health standards system in areas that lack as set by the World Health access to clean water, such Organization, this project as in many developing investigates the sand f ilter communities around the lifespan and ability to purify world. Thousands of slow an initial water source to 99% sand filters have been removal of total coliforms. installed around the world, Thus far, a f ilter has been but they are fabricated from produced and assigned a expensive materials and testing space.Through the have little to no published initial testing, the protocol data on their effectiveness. was streamlined and the testing methods became This team aims to construct more efficient. With the past the system out of materials run of testing, the desired readily available in the area, results have been seen. With such as trash cans, PVC continued testing we intend pipes, sand, and gravel. The to accomplish the following. simple design also utilizes First, the desired data will be a biological film called a consistently repeated, and schmutzdecke that forms second, the protocol will on the surface of the sand continue to be streamlined. layer and removes various water particulates. Slow Sand Filter Research 38

Summerton- Solar Energy Town Center Project Management (from left to right) Michael Masercola, Project Manager Marguerite Azzara, Sovanroth Ou Map of Summerton Town Center with target buildings circled 39

CEDC Headquarters of innovation in Summerton, SC In many places across South towards beginnings of a conceptual Carolina there is a lack design. To do this, the team began of community resilience. a formal recommendations list Resilience is defined as the that provides information to ability to recover quickly f rom Summerton regarding how they catastrophe. There are many could increase the efficiency of aspects regarding resilience their buildings. This would not as well as many solutions. One only lower their energy demand, particularly important factor is but would in turn decrease the size electricity. If a community were of the photovoltaic system. The to experience a power outage team is working on a cost analysis and have no secondary source of making these changes in order of electricity, they would not be to display the long-term monetary able to function. An incredible benefit of making the town center solution to this issue would be a more eff icient. The team also photovoltaic system, better known completed a spreadsheet that as solar panels. Summerton would calculate the cost of the Solar’s goal is to provide clean, solar panels as well as the size of renewable energy and resilience the system based upon power in the form of solar panels to the consumption of the building. In the town center of Summerton, South future, the team plans to continue Carolina while also providing gathering power data so that the an educational benef it to the created spreadsheet may be fully surrounding schools. This project utilized. The team also plans to is relatively new; it is going on its compose a full cost analysis of the second semester. system encompassing the cost of the building efficiency upgrades, Last semester was primarily the cost of the system itself, and spent researching and defining the rate of return. Once this has the scope of the project. This se- been completed, the team will be mester has been spent pushing able to begin a conceptual design the project forward and working of the system. Summerton Solar 40

Water Analysis Project Management (from left to right) Ameen Mahmood, Leah Brown, Hillary Tapia, Project Manager Shannon Leonard, Bevin Kumar, (not pictured) Tyler Catoe The team working on the HACH System in the testing facility 41

Building a water analysis model to continuously monitor water quality in water systems The Water Analysis team The testing prototype feeds goal is to use remote dirty water through the less sensing technology to expensive Atlas Scientific provide automated reporting of sensors and the top dollar HACH water conditions across a wide sensors so that the data can be area of parameters that indicate compared. Last semester our compliance or non-compliance team finalized our calibrations with World Health Organization of our purchased sensors and (WHO) standards. The intent planned to move into our testing is that this technology can phase. This semester we worked be used in Haiti to allow for with Technical Solutions and real-time monitoring of water HACH’s technical division, to quality throughout the country. troubleshoot the HACH system The data will be compiled in a which needs to be calibrated to database that will be accessible ensure we are receiving accurate both in the US and Haiti and can testing quantities. We are be used for reporting purposes, currently prepping for a HACH trend analysis which can trigger representative visit in the fall immediate corrective actions by building a stand to support by issuing alerts. This will our prototype and testing our notify us and potentially other sensors against common bench NGOs of potential problems research sensors to ensure our with installed water systems system is accurate. By the end of and the quality of that water. this semester we plan to finalize If successful, we would like to our testing protocol and finish expand our efforts to other setting up the wireless cloud developing communities. that connects to the Arduino. Moving forward, we will calibrate In previous semesters a testing the HACH system, f inish data prototype was constructed collection in the field locally in to compare the accuracy of order to eventually implement cheaper sensor alternatives. our prototype in Haiti and make changes when necessary. Water Analysis 42

A SPECIAL THANK YOU... (from left to right) Industry/Faculty Advisor - Intercultural Consultant and Human Communications SME Micheal Caudill, Industry Advisor - Mechanical Engineer with MBA and 46 years of experience Chris Klasing, Faculty Advisor and Fearless leader with CEDC since the beginning and 30 years of Industry experience David Vaughn All of us here at CEDC would like to take a moment to say thank you to all of our faculty advisors, graduate advisors, external advisors, CEDC Alumni, and our friends and family that support our student population. Every donation of materials, funds, time, and con- sultation is pivotal to the progress we make as an organization. Independently, we would not be able to do we what do! 43

Faculty and Industry Advisors: Chris Klasing Harry Morse Christopher Post Jeff Plumblee Claiborne Linville John Smink Daniel Harding Michael Caudill David Vaughn Raj Singh Delphine Dean Roxanne Amerson Dustin Albright Suyi Li Glen Quattlebaum Will Mayo Graduate Advisors: Ashley Martin Chase Gabbard Colby Cash Denis Garcia Henry Lee 44



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