Sustainable Design Project

Structural & Mechanical Engineering

Student team was given the task to partner with another department to design and create one of their needs.

We partnered with the art department. Our client needed a sustainable way to bring his screen-printing art setup to local events.

We built a zero-cost, lightweight, detachable, screen-printing bike trailer.

Art designed by Kurt Degregorio

Weight: < 100 lb.
Height: < 4ft
Budget: No cost, donations and already owned parts
Fully functional screen-printing station. Everything needed to make screen printed shirts will have to fit and be able to be hauled by a bike.
3-gal water should be able to be transported with the trailer.
Sustainability: using as much wood that has already been laying around / scraps, as possible. The whole print station will be able to be transported by a bike, not emitting and harmful gasses from automotive vehicles.

Testing out the main frame to determine where the inner compartments should be placed and what sizes.

The finished product was demonstrated as the final project. We brought screen printing supplies along with the "sustainable engineering" frame.

Students and professors brought their shirts to be screen printed and we used our screen-printing trailer as the set-up.

Zero Cost!

All sustainably sourced / donated materials.