Due to Assiut
University encouraging policies of all activities that influence the society and
solve its problems, two students from the Faculty of Engineering, Assiut
University have designed a machine for reaping cane. This machine won the second
rank on the Day of Engineering and Innovation at Assiut University. This project
was also one of 25 projects out of the 500 projects nominated in the second
round for final selection in the NU100 competition organized by the Nile
University. The competition basically target the youth whose inventions are both
commercially and technically eligible for execution.
Third-year student Mahmoud Arafa and Shaimaa Mahmoud, from the fourth year,
Mechatrocnics Section, Department of Mechanical Engineering, assured that they
demand an amount of LE.80.000 (eighty thousand Egyptian Pounds) to complete the
primary design of the project. The idea of this project goes back to a request
from the Agricultural Society to the Faculty of Engineering requiring a
machine to assist farmers growing Cane in reaping their crop, especially when
reapers delay and cause great loss and damages of the crop. Also, it has become
an impelling demand since the daily wage of human labor mounted to LE. 40 (forty
Egyptian Pounds). Therefore, a team work has started work with the encouragement
of Dr. Wael Khairalla, Professor of design, Department of Mechanical
Engineering, Assiut University. The team began work and meeting with farmers who
all aspired for using the first design as soon as it is accomplished.
The University, in turn will assist the team and sponsor a large part of the
final cost of the project. The university will also promote the project which,
the team members assert, will attract large investments when it is done and
introduced to alleviate the suffering of Egyptian farmers.
Assiut University Students Invent Cane–Reaping Machine