Momentum - The Magazine for Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering Vol. 1 No. 4 | Page 11

Senior design team
raises funds to help
Malawi hospital
A senior design project advised by Associate
Professor Kevin Kochersberger raised more than
$1,500 over the course of the past year and
used some of the funds to help buy 250 sets of
much-needed bed linen for the Mulanje Mission
Hospital in Mulanje, Malawi.
"The hospital has been involved with and welcomed a number of our senior design projects
over the past several years and we asked how
we could help," said Kochersberger.
Ruth Shakespeare, who has been a long-time
volunteer with the hospital, informed Kochersberger that new linen is always welcome at
the facility, so he and his team sent the items
through a charity out of Pennsylvania. They
arrived in Malawi in early December.
Currently, there are more than half a dozen
senior design teams working on a variety of
humanitarian-inspired projects including low-resource washing machines, and deep-well drills,
to modular septic systems. Look for more on
these programs in an upcoming issue of Momentum in 2017.
A nurse at the Mulanje Mission Hospital unpacks the
250 sets of sheets provided to the facility by members of
Associate Professor Kevin Kochersberger's senior design
teams.

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