MEMO

To : All 1st Year Chemical Engineering Students

From : Course Coordinator of Introduction to Engineering

Date : 26th December 2022

Subject : Final Task – Stage 3 – BWMP2020

Congratulations!!! You have reached the final stage
of the “Be Wise with Microplastics 2022”
(BWMP2022). Can you identify the engineering
processes that you have gone through on your
journey here? Hopefully the first two stages of Be
Wise with Microplastics 2022 have helped guide
you in picking up some fundamental skills and
knowledge to be a great engineer in the future.
Equipped with data from the audit that you have performed in Stage 2, now comes the real deal
of the whole campaign! In this stage, you need to identify which part of the microplastics problem
is the most critical or significant and needs to be rectified. Once you have identified the problem
you would like to tackle, you need to come up with three possible engineering solutions that can
alleviate the microplastics problem. To make sure that your team can focus on developing and
perfecting one solution, a feasibility study has to be carried out using MATLAB to find the best
engineering solution. To start off the feasibility study, you can start by identifying the criteria that
would assist you in determining the feasibility of your solution. Each criteria needs to be assigned
a weightage that signifies its importance. Your program needs to be detailed out with an algorithm
and a flowchart.
The program should suggest the best and environmentally benign engineering solution based on
the multi-criteria decision making performed in the MATLAB program. The input must be user-
friendly, and the output must be nicely presented. Once the program has been completed, you
will be able to clearly identify the most feasible engineering solution.
Even though the MATLAB program has pinpointed the best engineering solution to the problem,
you still need to justify and discuss the alternative that was chosen. Each team must submit the
final report (A maximum of 40 pages excluding Table of Contents, References and Appendix) for
the whole project results, findings, and outcomes on 26 January, 2023. This report contributes to
both the Introduction to Engineering (ITE) and Introduction to Computer Programming (ICP)
courses.
Your team also needs to deliver a presentation (5 minutes duration) in the Be Wise with
Microplastics 2022 Exhibition that will be held on 16 January 2023. This presentation should
highlight the proposed engineering solution and also the developed MATLAB
program/application.
We look forward to receiving the best program and engineering solution from all of you that can
be used to educate the public on the alarming issue on microplastics pollution and the impact of
our behaviours and lifestyle can have on the environment and in contributing towards a cleaner
and more sustainable world to live in.