I’ll be there!

 

 

 

The eighth I2D Lab Meeting for Academic Year 2016 –2017 will be held on  Thursday, February 23rd, 11:30 (lunch) 12:00-1:30pm (meeting) in WANG 2501 – Please RSVP

 

Please invite your colleagues. Finally, please remember that March 23^rd Expo Poster Session Files must be submitted by Friday, March 10th as both an editable .pptx file, and as a PDF to serve as a proof.

 

 

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 Thursday, February 23rd, 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 John Lumkes (ABE): Purdue Utility Platform (and other useful machines for developing world): Variations on innovative mobile systems that can be manufactured, sold, and serviced within the local regions where it is used. The vehicle is built in-country utilizing components and materials readily accessible to that region. The PUP is an adaptable design, allowing for alternative components to be exchanged with minimal impact on the vehicle’s overall design and function. The PUP can provide services such as transportation (people, water, food, supplies, etc.), agricultural tillage and planting, and power for attachments such as maize grinders, water pumps, and electrical generators. The project provides local employment opportunities through a micro-factory producing the vehicles, improved transportation options that provide better access to schools, markets, water, medical care, construction materials, increased time for entrepreneurial activities through reduced the time spent collecting and transporting food, water, and other supplies. Collaboration with international partners’ guides the development of new capabilities and ensures that local design and manufacturing constraints are met. Several prototypes have been built and tested in Cameroon for verification of the design and concept.

12:45pm             Seed Grantee Julie Liu: Cell-phone Based Detection of HIV Drug Resistance

An HIV drug resistance assay is a crucial part of HIV management and typically requires reverse transcription (RT)-PCR followed by PCR amplification. Two assays, TRUEGENE (Siemens Medical Solutions) and ViroSeq (Celera) have been approved by the FDA and are routinely used in developed countries for patient care and regimen selection1. These assays, however, require expensive instrumentation and reagents, extensive experience in sample handling, and a relatively lengthy testing time. They are thus not suitable for point-of-care (POC) applications. There is a pressing need to develop a genotypic assay that can be used to rapidly and in real time determine HIV drug resistance.

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 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, Wednesday February 23rd so we can 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.

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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

Thursday, April 20:

Jennifer DeBoer (ENE): Engineering Skills Curriculum and Digital Materials for Out-of-school Youth; and 10 minute presentations from new grantees

 

Andrea Burniske

Program Manager, i2D Lab

Global Engineering Programs

4^th Floor, Wang Hall

Purdue University

West Lafayette, IN

Ph: 765.496.3533

Skype: AndreaLaBurniske