Dear I2D Lab Faculty Friends, The Seventh I2D Lab Meeting for Academic Year 2016 –2017 will be held on Wednesday, February 8, 11:30 (lunch) 12:00-1:30pm (meeting) in WANG 2501 – Please RSVP Please invite your colleagues. Finally – remember that Friday, February 10th is the deadline for proposal submissions [cid:image003.png@01D27E26.BD3A3050] BI-MONTHLY MEETINGS REMINDER Colleagues, The Innovation for International Development Lab (I2D Lab) under the Office of Global Engineering Programs (GEP) aims to foster a vibrant community of faculty, staff, and students working with international partners to address grand challenges in international development based on engineering innovations and market-driven approaches. This includes research, design, adaptation, and field-testing of appropriate technologies and services that have strong potential to become scalable solutions for energy access, healthcare, water and sanitation, labor-saving innovations, and disaster/humanitarian response. The next I2D Lab meeting of this semester is scheduled for Wednesday, February 8, 11:30 (lunch) 12:00-1:30pm (meeting) in WANG 2501 with the following agenda: 12:00pm Announcements – funding opportunities, upcoming campus visitors and events, etc. 12:15pm Seed Grantee Klein Ileleji (ABE): Affordable Grain Moisture Sensors for Developing Nations: Accurate moisture content (MC) determination is important in determining whether a crop has been dried properly for safe storage, transportation and processing. It is also used as a measure of quality and standardization in the trading of grains and other crops. Currently, the portable hand-held meters available in the market are either too expensive, or lack features that enable smallholder farmers to quickly and easily measure content on-farm or at the point of sale. Dr. Ileleji and his partners at the University of Los Andes in Colombia are working on low-cost, portable moisture meters with characteristics that provide access to quick information to benefit farmers and grain buyers. 12:45pm Andrea Burniske (GEP): Monitoring and Evaluation for Development Projects: Donor-funded projects require results frameworks and performance monitoring plans. Academic researchers are often unfamiliar with development project design, monitoring and evaluation (DME), and therefore find it difficult to develop and submit these plans. 1:15pm Round-the-table updates This semester, we will also be offering the opportunity to join I2D Lab meetings remotely via WebEx. If you would like to join via this option, please let me know and I will send a connection link. The goal of these meetings is to learn more about engineering faculty interests and ongoing projects in global sustainable development, look for potential research collaborations, and to network with partners on campus to target new funding/partnership opportunities. Please feel free to share this announcement with interested colleagues or graduate students. We ask that you RSVP at gep@purdue.edu<mailto:gep@purdue.edu> to this, and subsequent meetings so that we can obtain a count for lunch. If you do not RSVP, you will not receive lunch. Lunch starts at 11:30. Please RSVP by noon, Tuesday January 24th so we can to place the lunch order. The meeting schedule for remainder of the semester follows. If you are interested in sharing your own project in an upcoming meeting, please let us know. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ALL MEETINGS ARE 12:00-1:30PM IN WANG 2501 I2D Meeting Schedule: 2016- 2017 Wednesday, January 11: Seed Grantee Jackie Linnes (BME): Point-of-Care Detection of Neonatal Sepsis; and Vilas Pol (ChE): Upcycling plastic waste to create valuable carbon nanotubes and spheres for use in batteries and lubricants. Thursday, January 26: Seed Grantee Chip Blatchley (CE): Solar UV Disinfection for Water Production in Developing Countries; and special session: Positioning Ourselves to Respond to Donor RFPs Wednesday, February 8: Seed Grantee Klein Ileleji (ABE): Grain Moisture Sensor; and special session: Monitoring and Evaluation for Development Projects Thursday, February 23: John Lumkes (ABE): PUP Innovation Stages; and Seed Grantee Julie Liu (ChE): Cell-phone Based Detection of HIV Drug Resistance Wednesday, March 8: Seed Grantees Yuehwern Yih (IE): CRS Emergency Response E-Supply Chain Management System ; and Chad Jafvert (CE): Rural Potable Water Systems Thursday, March 23: I2D Lab Expo Poster Session at ARMS Atrium 5pm, and March 24, actual Expo at PMU Wednesday, April 5: Brandon Boor (CE and EEE): Nandi Indoor Air Pollution Study; and Ayhan Irfanoglu (CE): Earthquake Resilient Construction Using Local Materials<https://engineering.purdue.edu/GEP/I2DLab/Projects/Earthquake-Resilient> Thursday, April 20: Jennifer DeBoer (ENE): Engineering Skills Curriculum and Digital Materials for Out-of-school Youth<https://engineering.purdue.edu/GEP/I2DLab/Projects/ENGR-youth>; and 10 minute presentations from new grantees Andrea Burniske Program Manager, i2D Lab Global Engineering Programs 4th Floor, Wang Hall Purdue University West Lafayette, IN Ph: 765.496.3533 Skype: AndreaLaBurniske
