Ewb challenge 2015

Reignite Action for Development (RAfD) is focused on empowering rural African communities to break out of the poverty cycle. The Engineers without Borders (EWB) Challenge is an Australasian design program that provides first-year university students with the opportunity to learn about design, sustainable development, teamwork, and communication, while contributing towards real international development projects [1].

In 2015, EWB has partnered with RAfD and identified a range of areas for growth within the district of Bambui in Cameroon. The recent construction of a new university is causing rapid urbanization in the rural Bambui community and increasing the pressure on the existing water supply, sanitation, water management, and available housing facilities. They are now inviting students to use their problem solving and design skills to develop innovative and appropriate project solutions to make a real contribution towards the sustainable development of the rural Bambui community. You will be required to work in teams of 4 to 5 on the identified projects areas. More information could be located on http://www.ewbchallenge.org/reignite [2]. Nine design areas have been identified by EWB and RAfD. Several project ideas are being suggested for each design area [3, 4]. Your team is required to identify a design area and choose one of the suggested projects with a sustainability focus and work towards designing a solution to that problem. Please refer to the EWB website for more detailed information about each project, design requirements, as well as other supporting resources. Your design proposal satisfying all the EWB design considerations and reporting requirements should be documented in a team report and submitted by Friday, Week 11. After your work is assessed and reviewed this semester, you may be given the opportunity to continue working on this EWB project during the first six weeks of Semester 2 in NEF1204. Two high quality reports detailing exceptional quality work will be officially sent to the EWB competition to compete against the work of other students’ from other Universities. If your team’s report scores highly, you will move onto the regional and then national showcases, where you will have the opportunity to present your reports to members of the EWB. 2.0 Deliverable On the completion of this problem, your team will have produced a single hardcopy team report. The report should be about 5000 words, word processed with correct spelling, grammar, and referencing employed. The report is due Friday, Week 11. Individuals must indicate which sections they were responsible for in the team report by marking their initials in the Contents Page next to their section(s) and indicate the overall editor(s). Your report must be word processed in standard report format [5]. Paraphrase, i.e. use your own words. Do not copy or cut and paste information from sources. This is plagiarism [5]. Provide in-text references for every source of information. Provide a Reference List at the end of your report [5]. The following marking scheme will be used when assessing your team reports: