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Sustainable Agriculture
Get PDFThe Sustainable Agriculture team is addressing malnutrition through aquaponics. Aquaponics is a soil-free farming method that reduces growing periods and water consumption by 90% compared to traditional methods. The Sustainable Agriculture team works alongside its clients, Youth with a Mission and Trans World Radio, to develop and implement universal and scalable aquaponics prototypes. This year, the team designed and constructed nine working prototypes for a sensitivity analysis. The team also constructed two unique airlift pumps to create alternatives for their clients. They also produced a digital system monitor for tracking temperature, pH, and dissolved oxygen in the aquaponics prototypes for our clients at Youth with a Mission.
Funding for this work provided by The Collaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research.https://mosaic.messiah.edu/engr2022/1019/thumbnail.jp
Designing a Solar PV System for Tree 4 Hope
Get PDFThe Solar Photovoltaics (PV) team designs and installs solar electricity systems in developing countries where power is less reliable or non-existent. Starting in 2020, the Solar PV team began collaborating with Tree 4 Hope—a nonprofit organization that partners with an orphanage near Guatemala City, Guatemala. Over the past year, the team has designed a solar system to be installed at the orphanage which will provide them with a cleaner and cheaper source of electricity. Thus far, the overall 5 kW solar panel system design including lead-acid batteries has been completed. Key components of the system consisting of the system controller, two charge controllers and the inverter have been programmed and tested, by plugging them into existing elements of the solar lab system, in preparation for installation in Guatemala. This poster details the progress accomplished this year in the design, testing, and programming of the Solar PV system including wiring considerations and communication with in-country suppliers for installation at the orphanage during May of this year.
Funding for this work provided by The Collaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research.https://mosaic.messiah.edu/engr2022/1016/thumbnail.jp
Muscle Activated 3D Printed Prosthetic Arm
Get PDFDue to the rapid growth of children and the cost of myoelectric technology, children are not given the same opportunities to use myoelectric prosthetics as adults. The Muscle Activated Prosthesis (MAP) team seeks to reconcile this by creating an affordable, trans-radial, myoelectric prosthesis that utilizes the flexibility of 3D printing technology for a fourteen-year-old congenital amputee named Lily. The MAP team has completed the design and prototype of a myoelectric prosthesis with a material cost of approximately 10,000-$20,000 cost of clinically accepted myoelectric prosthetic upper limbs. The 3D printed prosthetic arm prototype incorporates electromyography (EMG) electrodes, a motor and tendon system, an open-source prosthetic hand design, a custom printed circuit board (PCB), and lithium-ion battery power. The opening and closing of the prosthetic hand is controlled by the myoelectric signals from the user’s forearm contractions which can be tested by the team using our adaptive prosthetic attachment. All these components result in an affordable prosthetic that has the potential for customization and adaptation to different sized limbs.
Funding for this work provided by The Collaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research.https://mosaic.messiah.edu/engr2022/1009/thumbnail.jp
A Low Cost, Portable Fluorescence Correlation Spectrometer for Disease Diagnosis
Get PDFPeople being treated for HIV need to periodically test to determine if their antiviral medication is effectively keeping their viral loads at a safe level. Individuals living in rural areas of developing countries would be more likely to get these viral load tests if an instrument existed which reduced costs and was small and rugged enough to be brought to the client rather than require the client to travel for hours to a clinic. The Diagnostics for Viral Disease team is developing such a device in cooperation with Dr. Edgar Simulundu and the Macha Research Trust in Zambia. Our design is based on advanced fluorescence spectroscopy utilizing a fluorescence protein probe, confocal optics, and low-cost, low-power electronics.
This poster reviews work done in three subsystems of the overall instrument. First, we have optimized the program used during burst analysis spectroscopy for identification of individual viruses in dilute samples. Second, we have confirmed the operation of the amplifying and discriminating sections of the photon processing circuitry which converts light pulses into a digital signal ready to be processed in the signal analysis subsystem. Finally, we have completed the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) and Raspberry Pi programming allowing successful transfer of the results of the signal processing in the FPGA to the Raspberry Pi for display to the end user. Going forward we will integrate these subsystems into a fully functional exploded prototype ready for the final stage of condensing the design into a portable prototype that can be tested and delivered to our client.
Funding for this work provided by The Collaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research.https://mosaic.messiah.edu/engr2022/1003/thumbnail.jp
Program Notes
Get PDFLift Every Voice and Sing
O Vos Omnes
The Last Words of David
No. 6 “Song of the Earth” from Jubilate Deo
Requiem KV 626, “III. Sequenz, No. 3 Rex Tremendae”
O Quam Gloriosum
I Opened My Mouth To the Lord
Total Praise
Music Down in My Soul
Festival Sanctus
Sure on This Shining Night
“Non Nobis” from Three Latin Psalm
Music and the Human Experience: Program Notes
Get PDFThomas Tallis (1505—1585), If ye love me Jan Dismas Zelenka (1679—1745), Responsoria pro hebdomada sancta Moses Hogan (1957-2003), Hear My Prayer Alessandro Scarlatti (1660—1725), Exultate Deo Amy Beach (1867-1944), Three Flower Songs Thomas Morley (1557-1602), April is in my mistress’ face Stephen Paulus (1949-2014), Southern Harmony Clara Schumann (1819-1896), Liebst du um Schönheit Franz Schubert (1797-1828), Lebenslust (“Love of Life”) Sarah Quartel (b. 1982), “Sing, My Child” Frank Ticheli (b. 1958), Earth Song Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), Rest Elaine Hagenberg (b. 1979), The Music of Stillness J. David Moore (b. 1962), Will the Circle Be Unbroken Michael Barrett (b. 1983), Modimo
Created as part of MUAP 62
How to Navigate Parkinson\u27s Disease as a Couple
Get PDFOn the wedding day, two partners lovingly say I do to being a faithful spouse in sickness and in health. As you know, fulfilling those vows is easier said than done. Navigating Parkinson\u27s Disease (PD) as a couple will engage all of those coping skills, lessons, and more learned from challenges you\u27ve faced already. If you or your spouse has been diagnosed with PD, consider these tips for maintaining a healthy and thriving marriage
Recital Notes
No full textProgram notes for: Dan Forrest’s “Ve Adthor Vador” from Jubilate Deo David T. Clydesdale’s Lord, Have Mercy Bradley Knight’s “Something Happens” Antonio Vivaldi’s Magnificat Josh Stewart’s “Be Thou My Vision” Gabriel Fauré’ “Sanctus” from Requiem Sir Charles Villiers Stanford’s “Nunc Dimittis” from Evening Service in G Major op.81 Wolfgang A. Mozart’s “Lux Aeterna” from the Requiem in d minor Johannes Brahms’ “How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place” from A German Requiem Moses Hogan’s Walk Together, Childre
Program Notes
Get PDFChoral notes for: O Thou, the Central Orb “Te Cao Chang de Yang” (section 1) from Jubilate Deo “Kyrie” from Requiem “Sanctus” from Missa O Magnum Mysterium Festival Sanctus “The Road Not Taken” from Frostiana The Road Home Will There Really Be a Morning? Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal Lo, How a Rose/The Rose A Red, Red, Rose “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd” from Sweeney Todd “Sunday” from Sunday in the Park with Georg
Mapping the Divide
No full textThis poster provides a closer look at the history of interwoven disparities in housing, education, income, and health in Central Pennsylvania.https://mosaic.messiah.edu/race_place/1001/thumbnail.jp