Dear List Members,

Please see the attached funding opportunity through the United Arab Emirates.

 

We will resume I2D Faculty Meetings soon.

 

Best wishes, Andrea

 

Andrea Burniske

Program Manager, I 2D Lab

Global Engineering Programs, 4th Floor, Wang Hall

Purdue University

West Lafayette, IN

Ph: 765.496.3533

Skype: AndreaLaBurniske

https://engineering.purdue.edu/GEP/I2DLab

 

Punctuated Equilibrium - the hypothesis that evolutionary development is marked by isolated episodes of rapid speciation between long periods of little or no change

 

From: Raman, Arvind
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 10:56 AM
To: Burniske, Andrea E <Andreaburniske@purdue.edu>; Moseson, Alexander J <alexmoseson@purdue.edu>
Subject: FW: The UAE Awards for Good 2017

 

Please forward to i2d faculty list …is our faculty list engineering only with another mail serv for i2dfriends? If not we should probably try to do so…

Arvind

 

 

From: Venkataramanan Balakrishnan [mailto:ragu@ecn.purdue.edu]
Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2016 10:23 AM
To: Crawford, Melba M <mcrawford@purdue.edu>; Raman, Arvind <raman@purdue.edu>
Subject: Fwd: The UAE Awards for Good 2017

 

Melba and Arvind,
You probably received this as well, but I thought I'd forward it just in case, as this might be be of interest to you.
Best,
ragu



-------- Forwarded Message --------

Subject:

The UAE Awards for Good 2017

Date:

Sun, 21 Aug 2016 04:14:37 +0000

From:

Mansoor M. Al Kaitoob <mansoor.alkaitoob@ICTFund.gov.ae>

To:

research <research@ICTFund.gov.ae>



Greetings,

We are writing from the ICT Fund-UAE, to invite your esteemed organization , faculty members and students to participate in the UAE Awards for Good that will be held in Dubai 10th – 11th  of February 2017.

It’s an annual award focusing on how technology can be best used for the better of humanity with the UAE’s prime minister SH. Mohamed bin Rashid himself awarding the winning team the $1,000,000 prize money. The ICT Fund is organizing and sponsoring the 2017 awards and has opened the opportunity for teams globally to apply via the awards respective websites as time is limited. Those teams that will be selected will have all costs covered to travel to the UAE and any other costs to present their innovations and inventions to the judging panels on the day of the competition. It is a great platform with international and local media coverage and many global speakers.

Participants are required to register for the awards and will be required to submit their videos and proposals using the online submission form until the 31st of October 2016. Teams can comprise individuals, groups, universities or companies. Each team must nominate a project leader and can submit up to three entries. Teams can consist of as many members as they require, however only four members of each team will be eligible for sponsored travel if selected for the semi-finals.

We look forward to your participation.

 •              https://www.dronesforgood.ae/    

•              https://www.roboticsforgood.ae/   

Note: This award is not affiliated with Mohammed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBIRC).

Kind regards,

Mansoor M. Al Kaitoob, M.B.A
Sr. R&D Projects Coordinator

منصور محمد الكيتوب
منسق أول - مشاريع بحثية

 



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-- 
Venkataramanan Balakrishnan                         
Michael and Katherine Birck Head
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering