This MQP was a part of the C-Term 2023 Ghana Project Center: Development Design Lab. Our team’s main objective was to develop an affordable and sustainable alternative to corrugated sheet metal roofing using plastic and coconut fiber waste with the Ghanaian community. Following axiomatic design principles, our team designed a compression molding process. Our team tested this process by producing a recycled LDPE beam and conducted material testing. Additionally, we created a value stream map, cost sheet, and ran an in-depth interview. Overall, it was concluded that this process was not viable for producing composites of this nature but demonstrated significant potential for future work to be explored.

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Creator

• Baker, Jackson
• Morin, Michael

Subject

• Project-Based Learning
• Community
• Infrastructure
• Culture
• Environment
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 93241
• E-project-031623-215159

Advisor

• Fofana, Mustapha S.
• Towner, Walter Thomas
• Jackson, Debora E.
• Krueger, Robert

Year

• 2023

Center

• Ghana Project Center: Development Design Lab - MQP

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Date created

• 2023-03-16

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering
• Management Engineering

Source

• E-project-031623-215159

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-04-19