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# Theme

We are part of a successful design service provider that prides itself on being at the cutting edge of engineering and technology. We provide professional design services that are driven by emerging technologies, social trends or challenges, and concerns about quality-of-life and sustainability from the perspectives of Shenzhen, China, and the world.

As part of our strategy in innovation, research, and entrepreneurship, each year we challenges a select group of teams to design and develop engineering products in a new strategic direction.

You are a member of one of four teams that have been tasked with this challenge.

This year, our strategic theme is “Wasteless!” Wasteless is a call to enhance environmental awareness towards a sustainable quality-of-life through industrial automation. [Starting from September 1, 2020, Shenzhen enters a new era with the municipal regulation on waste sorting](http://www.gd.gov.cn/gdywdt/dsdt/content/post_3029875.html). Towards a sustainable future is not only a national direction towards the future but also [a key strategy embraced by the city of Shenzhen](http://www.sz.gov.cn/zfgb/2018/gb1052/content/post_5018701.html). The promotion of sustainable development is [a strategic solution](https://www.un.org/en/sections/what-we-do/promote-sustainable-development/) to improve people’s well-being with a balanced consideration of prosperity, economic opportunity, protection of the environment, and social welfare. Many developed countries, such as [Singapore](https://www.mewr.gov.sg/ssb), have made many efforts in achieving this goal. With [the national support to Shenzhen towards building a pioneering demonstration zone](http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/2019-08/18/content_5422183.htm), a “wasteless” future is a challenge that may be solved by emerging engineering designs with a touch of artificial intelligence and advanced robotics.

The “wasteless” project in the 2020-2021 academic year is an ambitious experiment on emerging engineering education, which is conceptualized through three phases of development.\
– Phase 1 through Lab project for ME303 Introduction to Mechanical Design: Design machines for waste sorting production line\
– Phase 2 through Lab project for ME336 Collaborative Robot Learning: Empower intelligence for automated waste sorting\
– Phase 3 through Summer project for ME491 Engineering Practice: System optimization and industrial integration

For this semester, we are targeting at Phase 1, during which your team will consider ideas of mechanisms and machines through its own ideation and research for waste sorting, based on a model production line for waste sorting provided by potential clients. Specifically, each team will be divided into three task forces on three machine design challenges towards an integrated production line that meets the engineering specifications for automated waste sorting.

Your design challenge begins on September 7 and culminates on December XX at the final presentation.

**Cheers and good luck\~**


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