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MEDICAL DEVICE RELATED
AFFORDABLE MOBILITY FOR SENIOR CITIZENS
A team of 7 engineering students are expected to develop a low-cost and easy-to-repair wheelchair to address the issues of expensive buying and up-keeping of a motorized wheelchair.
This project’s focus target audiences are the low income elderly especially those living in one room flats. Beyond the development of such wheelchairs, there are also broader issues related to the health of wheelchair users, the need for a systems solution to the community of wheelchair users, etc. This project is part of the NUS CARES initiative and for this project, we are partnering with the Central Community Development Council (Central CDC).
A team of 3 engineering students and 1 business student gathered and join Samsung’s Solve for Tomorrow, a social invention challenge and won 2nd place for their fall detection devices for the elderly in Singapore. The device not only detects falls but seeks to build a community around these elderly to give them more incentives to wear these devices. Also in simplified data, it would inform the elderly and their love ones about their health bio-metrics to see if it's in the safe region. Currently the product is still in its development stages and further iterations are to be done over the course of the year.
BEEP8; Samsung Solve For Tomorrow
SWOD; Solutions for Wheelchair Overcoming Doorsteps
As part of the volunteer program under Engineering Good Student Chapter, groups of tertiary students were gathered to help develop sustainable solutions for the respective beneficiaries. My team is made up of 5 engineers from NUS and NTU and we are to work together with SPD and help solve the issues of wheelchairs overcoming steps right in front of their house. Currently right now the project is ongoing.
A Design Centric Program project in which we identify the practicality of 3D Printing in society, see its application in fracture treatment medical cast and adopt 3D printing and scanning methods to assist the problem in conventional medical cast.
3D PRINTING OF MEDICAL CAST
PURELY DIGITAL PLATFORM
ARTFRIEND ECOMMERCE SITE
A revamp for Art Friend Ecommerce website to increase conversion rate and boost online sales.
LAND USE & SOCIAL GOOD
CASE STUDY: IMPLEMENTING LAND-USE PLANNING IN MANLE VILLAGE, YUNNAN, CHINA
Stemming off from a YEP project, a team of 8 students and 2 professors were the pioneer batch of the module and went down to ManLe, a small forgotten village in Yunnan, China to assess the problems and gather the villagers responses towards the current situation and the governments officers responses. Also field trips were taken to the “Model Village” to see and learn what the current government is doing to help the bigger villages. After much discussion and fieldwork, a land use planning proposal is presented to the governing officers in Yunnan for their reference and to help suggest implementation with followed up volunteering actions.
4 Southeast Asian People (Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand & Philippines) gather together in the YSEALI Generation program and tackled the issue with regards to disaster mitigation for rural communities, especially in Philippines. Thus an education package and service is structured around each community first addressing the community’s worries and needs to better understand them and educated them in proper disaster mitigation. Currently there are 3 portion the the project, culturally relevant pamphlets, shelters and establishing a local community for support. Future ideas would be to provide a platform for non local NGOS to contact them with us as translators.
PAGASA; HOPE
A team of 5 nus students are expected to seek for social issues in Singapore and develop a social enterprise business model around it. From ground survey, it was discovered that the ID caregivers was a group which was largely forgotten and misinterpreted, making them resistant to newly developed programs targeted for them. A business model was thus developed around them as the primary beneficiaries in hopes of catering to their needs and to cultivate their own separate identity from their dependents.
PROJECT EMP; Social Enterprise
OTHERS
LOW-COST LANDSLIDE DETECTION DEVICE
Stemming off from a YEP project, a team of 8 students and 2 professors were the pioneer batch of the module and went down to ManLe, a small forgotten village in Yunnan, China to assess the problems and gather the villagers responses towards the current situation and the governments officers responses. Also field trips were taken to the “Model Village” to see and learn what the current government is doing to help the bigger villages. After much discussion and fieldwork, a land use planning proposal is presented to the governing officers in Yunnan for their reference and to help suggest implementation with followed up volunteering actions.
I took this on as a personal self initiated project during my internship while helping to facilitate classes. The aim of this project is to create a “No Waste” Prototyping kit for people to do their first few iterations of their product. As SL2 (my internship company) does a lot of ideation generation on a weekly basis, our original medium, cardboard and polymorph was creating too much waste. Thus this project was proposed.
Creation of learning tools to be used for all ages was something I'd always wanted to work on, and doing this project allowed me to observed different people of different ages and back ground to interact with the kit.
ZERO-WASTE PROTOTYPING KIT