Second Place Winners in ASME Competition in Lebanon

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ASME students is winning the Second place in the 2015 ASME regional Student Design Competition on the topic of Robots for Relief. The competition was held at Notre Dame University, Lebanon on April 24-25, 2015.  This annual regional competition invitation involves countries from the Middle East and North Africa. This is the first time during the last five consecutive years’ participation that the students won the second place in the competition.  The top two teams (First and Second places) will automatically qualify for the finals in San Antonio, Texas to be held in November 2015.  The names of the students who participated in this project are:

Hussni Osman (Project Leader)
Mohammed Al-Khaldi
Nawaf Alkhan
Mohammed Al-Binali
Mohammed Al-Hajji
Mohammed Al-Fares (Sabic)

Dr. Nader Nader who is the ASME Student Chapter Advisor as well as everyone who helped in this project especially students who helped financially and colleagues from the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Student Affairs office, Campus Life and the Vice Rector for Academic Affairs for their continuous support of all ASME-PMU student chapter activities.  Below please find the problem statement as listed by ASME and some photos taken during this event.

Robots for Relief

Delivering aid, including clean water, food, fuel, and medical supplies to places, such as the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan, is a difficult task, as transporting bulk materials over uneven and rough terrain, in tight spaces, and over long distances is often required to help those in need.
This year's challenge is to design and develop a scaled-down version of a transporter capable of delivering granular materials, which will be guided by, at most, one person.