First and foremost, we would like to thank God for giving us the strength, knowledge, ability and

opportunity to take this research study and to persevere and to complete it. Also, we thank God

who sustained us with good health, inspiration and enlightenment who poured his heavenly

blessings and guidance for the completion of this work.

First of all, we would like to express our sincere gratitude and our special appreciation to our

adviser Engr. Simpher R. Guyong who have been a tremendous mentor for us and for his

continuous support for our thesis study and research, for his patience, motivation, enthusiasm

and immense knowledge.

We take pride in acknowledging the insightful guidance of Engr. Mary B. Pasion for sparing her

valuable time whenever we approached her despite of being busy with faculty and other related

works and showing us the way ahead.

We have great pleasure in acknowledging our gratitude to our colleagues and fellow classmates

for their moral support, suggestions, advices and for helping us when we were repairing our pre-

shredder machine.

This acknowledgement with be incomplete without thanking the biggest source of our strength,

our family who gave their advices and never ending support. We thank them for their financial

supports and for providing us our needs for this study. Nobody has been more important to us in

the pursuit of this project than the members of our family. we would like to thank our parents,
whose love and guidance are with us in whatever we pursue. They are the ultimate role models

who provided us unending inspiration.

We are grateful to all of those who had the pleasure to work during this and other related

projects. Each of the members of Panel has provided us extensive personal and professional

guidance and taught us a great deal about both scientific research and life in general.

we would especially like to thank Engr. Ernesto B. Bausel for being very considerate on us, he

provided us time to finish our prototype and for letting us to use the M.E laboratory.

In our journey towards this degree, we have found a teacher, a friend, an inspiration, a role

model and a pillar of support in our study and We would like to express our deepest appreciation

to all those who provided us the possibility to complete this thesis study. This would not have

been possible without their help and guidance. They assisted us in our ways with the preparation

and completion of this study.