PROJECTS 2020
My Work Showcase
Since beginning my journey in this field, my dedication to the work and motivation to grow have led me to great projects and experiences. I’m grateful for a profession I’m passionate about, and am proud to share examples of my work. Take a moment to check out my portfolio, and get in touch with any questions.
Incubator Innovation
The vice-chancellor of the university tasked the 3rd year Industrial engineering students with making his vision a reality. His vision is for the university of Witwatersrand to be the forefront of innovation whilst displaying the unique voice of the people of Johannesburg.
My team came up with an idea, using the 4 D’s of Design methodology, to establish an incubator within the walls of the university in order to capture the essence of Braamfontein and Johannesburg's youth culture in order to become an entrepreneurial hotspot. This would allow like-minded people with a hunger for innovation to gather and share ideas as well as making these ideas reality through various services given to them within the incubator space.
This proved the most popular choice as well as needed through analysis of informal surveys distributed to fellow students.
This project allowed us to test knowledge gathered throughout the year and implement it towards a real-life scenario. Collaborating in a team employing a flat organizational structure allowed each group member the confidence to put forward their best foot as sharing the workload equally allowed us to have very little waste and produce meaningful results by utilizing our time very efficiently.
Guess Who Game Design
Our midyear project allowed us an opportunity to collaborate with another stream within engineering in order to produce an educational game targeted at the South African youth.
My team chose to tackle the question of “what do I want to do with my life?” that the youth of our country struggle with in high school. Our main goal being to raise awareness of various fields and there requirements earlier on in a student's career in order to lower dropout rate in university as well as the rate in which the youth change their subjects in high school because they simply have no idea where these subjects can take them career wise.
We instituted various design tools around the different phases of production such as the target audience, marketing, production costs and delivery of the product. This project allowed us to create something tangible that would need to be produced using various operations and supply chain management techniques.
Robot Simulation
Due to the ongoing pandemic, we were unable to access a lab to build a tangible robot in order to complete tasks. This provided us the opportunity to not only enhance our programming skills but also allow us to explore various simulation procedures.
Using the tools learnt in Mechatronics, regarding hardware and software, our robot was able to successfully complete all tasks given to it which showed understanding in simulated packaging procedures.
SPC Lab Presentation
SPC or statistical process control was utilized when I was tasked with identifying possible solutions as to why 2 types of bolts showed variations in length.
Doing this helped us to better understand unevenness which is one of the 3 M’s of Lean (Mura) and allowed me to get into a more practical way of understanding Lean thinking.
Part of the project was to present your findings as part of a poster. Up until this point, I’ve only ever done reports and that’s why it was so refreshing to learn a new way of presenting your ideas and solutions. Using a poster format makes you condense your work into the utmost important points which leads to a better efficiency in future projects.
NHI Rollout
My partner Nthabiseng and I were tasked with criticizing the National Health Insurance (NHI) Bill by employing industrial engineering methodology in order to conclude whether or not it's possible for the NHI to start rolling out.
After much analysis, we concluded that because the economy had not been on a uniform growth path that it would not be eligible to rollout an operation on this big of a scale until the economic growth showed a uniform, upwards trajectory.
Field Research Lab
The 3rd year industrial engineering students were split into groups and given a specific year of study within the MIA faculty in order to do field research and find out the student experience regarding online learning.
I was tasked with analyzing the data gathered surveying 2nd year students. Due to the fact that the survey did not have an above average response rate. It could not be indicative of the whole population due to the small sample size.
What I was able to conclude and compare was the responses of students living in Urban and Rural settlements due to the fact that it was equally weighted within the sample.
I concluded that the student experience towards online learning displayed positive results from students in urban areas and negative results from students in rural areas thus showing the experience was based solely on the opportunities students in urban areas have and lack of opportunities for students in rural areas. The university acted as a catalyst to lessen the gap and aim to give students hailing from rural areas a similar advantage to their urban area counterparts.