Team Well Care, comprising of SNU Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Students Mun Hyuk Jang (4^th Year), Heon Jun Yoon (Ph.D. Student), Jung Wook Lee (4^th Year), Yeon Kuk Sung (4^th Year) Ha Eun Kang (3^rd Year), Tae Myung Yang (3^rd Year) and guided by Professor Byeng Dong Youn claimed the Gold award (Hanbat University President’s Award) in the 6^th Creative Design Competition for the Isolated 90% hosted by KIMM last 23^rd of May 2014.<?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

The competition, which started off in 2009 is held annually with the aim to raise awareness on charitable technology and to improve the living conditions of the people isolated from technology and purchasing power through the design of appropriate technology, business model proposals, item development for the socially weak and other ideas. The competition, on its 6^th year now, is hosted together by KIMM, Han Dong Univ., Hanbat Univ., Han Yang Univ., KAIST RISTI, Ewha Women’s Univ. International Graduates School BK21 PLUS Group and the Sharing and Technology Corporation, with approximately 200 participants from 49 teams from 30 universities nationwide participating this year with ideas on safety, technologies for social problems and other appropriate technologies.

Team Well Care, who claimed Gold in this year’s competition, designed the High Pipe which reduces labor related to replacing and maintaining well pipes in Africa. The simplest type of well globally, the India Mark, is made up of 3m units of pipe, burrowing over 100m into the ground, with the mass totaling at over 500kg. Normally, the job of replacing these pipes which takes 10 men to complete can now be done with much lesser manpower with the use of the High Pipe. Additionally, through the use of the spring loaded mount/dismount disc, dismantling of the 3m units has been hastened. The team was commended on the fact that they actually visited Tanzania, Africa in 2012, developing a product that met the needs of the locals living there.

[The 6^th Creative Design Competition for the Isolated 90%]

[SNU Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Team Well Care (Guidance Professor Byeng Dong Youn)]

[Maintenance of Well Pipes Installed in Tanzania, Africa]

[High Pipe, designed by team Well Care]