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THIS LAND
Get PDFThere’s this feeling that’s taken up residence inside my soul. It’s a desperate, passionate tugging of the heartstrings, full of yearning and excitement; tinged with melancholy and pensiveness. It runs it’s roots so deep that it feels as if I was born with it and only now it has awoken
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Get PDFA photo depicting a path through the trees, with a fence and a distant farmhouse visible on the left
Joy in New Beginnings
Get PDFIf you would have told me my world was going to be flipped upside down in aisle B9 of a furniture store, I wouldn’t believe you, but I should
The Last Goodbye
Get PDFIf there would be one thing I regret,
In this long life
It would the way our last goodbye had ended.
We both did not know this would be the last
And I had said nothing
Rising Morning
Get PDFAs the sun touches the tips of trees,
And a smooth grey light gently
Wakes up the natural world,
The early morning whispers
To my restless soul
Trans World Radio - Culvert Design
Get PDFTrans World Radio (TWR) is a mission organization focused on broadcasting the Gospel around the world. TWR now serves 190 countries by transmitting in 275 languages, using radio to deliver the message to as many people as possible. The organization’s West Africa Transmitter Site in Benin currently has accessibility problems due to high streamflows and saturated ground conditions during the rainy season. The site also needs a secure perimeter to reduce trespassing and theft.
To address these issues, our client, Garth Kennedy, Director of the West Africa Transmitter Station, has asked the team to design two culverts, one at the upstream property boundary and one at the downstream boundary. Culverts are advantageous for this scenario because they can act as a bridge, while the pipe size can be restricted to inhibit trespassing. Once the culverts are built, the fence and perimeter road can be extended over them.
For both sides of the property, the team has designed a series of U-shaped, pre-cast concrete box culverts. The team calculated the design flows based on rainfall data and the topography of the site to determine the size and number of box sections. The team has also designed the culverts and the supporting concrete structures to bear the load of vehicles and the machinery on site. TWR plans to construct the pre-cast culverts on-site, and then build the supporting structures and install the culverts during their dry season.https://mosaic.messiah.edu/engr2021/1017/thumbnail.jp
Prosthetic Knee for CURE Kenya
Get PDFLower limb amputations are common in sub-Saharan Africa due to the prevalence of disease and infection in communities that lack access to adequate healthcare. Our project, Prosthetic Knee, partners with the CURE International Hospital in Kijabe, Kenya. In the region surrounding our client’s facility, there is a large number of lower-extremity amputations due to various infections and diseases. While many of these amputees only require a through-knee amputation, the lack of an affordable through-knee prosthesis often forces patients to undergo a more invasive transfemoral amputation to enable them to use a cheaper above-knee prosthesis. The goal of our project is to design and manufacture a financially accessible and user-friendly prosthetic knee for knee-disarticulation patients that can be manufactured in Messiah University’s machine shop (and ultimately, at the orthopedic facility in Kijabe).
This year, the team’s work has included finalizing the prototype design, conducting finite element analysis in SOLIDWORKS to evaluate the knee’s static and fatigue strength, and beginning the process of physical manufacturing. Additionally, a damping mechanism driven by a spring-loaded system has been developed and integrated into the design after completing motion analysis and SOLIDWORKS modeling. Our future goals include manufacturing a complete metal prototype of the knee, conducting physical strength and fatigue testing on the metal prototype, and continuing iterative prototyping of the damper in preparation for physical implementation.https://mosaic.messiah.edu/engr2021/1014/thumbnail.jp
Green Space and Community Wellbeing in Allison Hill
No full textGreen space has been a commonly utilized method of community development in recent years to combat many urban issues including environmental degradation, poverty, urban blight, education, and nutrition. While an increased area of green space affords a myriad of benefits within a community, these spaces require several criteria to effectively serve the community and remain sensitive to the identity of the local population. Extensive research outlines the physical, psychological, environmental, and practical benefits of green space in cities (Anderson, 2004; Arnold & Shinew, 1998; Gobster, 1998; Gobster, 2002; Irvine, 1999; Middle et al., 2014; Payne, Mowen, & Orsega-Smith, 2002). However, research also demonstrates the ability of these spaces to reinforce racial and socio-economic divides within communities (Agyeman, 2013; Carmichael & McDonough, 2019; Finney, 2014; Mock, 2019; Root, 2017; Solecki & Welch, 1995; Zukin, 2008). This essay will seek to illustrate the importance of community involvement in decision- making processes and the acknowledgement and celebration of diversity within the given community. It will do this through case study research on green space in the neighborhood of Allison Hill in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and seek to determine whether the community would welcome development of the greenhouse in Reservoir Park, or other park facilities.
Overall, Allison Hill in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is a neighborhood in which community engagement through green space development could be either empowering or divisive. Local green space already functions to provide space for emotional and environmental enhancement, as well as promote physical activity and recreation space for youth. However, disuse and neglect, as shown in many of other studies, greatly impact the functionality of these spaces. It is apparent that communication, acknowledgement of the deep, complex histories at work within the community, and the building of trust and cooperation between residents and the city government are all vital to the success of green space development
Education on Boyer 4th - December 2021
Get PDFEducation on Boyer 4th is the newsletter for the Messiah University Department of Education. The newsletter consists of articles written by faculty, profiles highlighting faculty, current students, and alumni, Photos from the Field, a student devotional, and more! The newsletter is put out monthly
Museum Exhibit: The Bombing of Hiroshima Exhibit
No full textThis website was created in Spring 2021 for Messiah University\u27s HIST 397: Museums, Monuments, and Memorials. The final project of the course was the creation of a website. Videos were created using screencapture technology.
Please visit https://21cenhistorian.wixsite.com/hiroshimaexhibit to view the original website project