In case you have yet to RSVP, please do so for this Thursday’s I2D Lab Faculty Meeting. Note the room #, as it is a smaller one on Wang 4th floor. Also, please see the presentation abstracts below.

 

 

 

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 November 17th, 11:30 (lunch) 12:00-1:30pm (meeting) in WANG 4070 with the following agenda:

 

12:00pm               Announcements – funding opportunities, upcoming campus visitors and events, etc.

 

12:15pm               Seed Grantees Chongli Yuan and Julie Liu, Cell-phone Based Detection of HIV Drug Resistance

The large number of people infected with HIV in the developing world puts an enormous burden on the health system. Infected patients require constant disease management and creates a great challenge in low-resource areas with a limited number of trained medical personnel and constrained diagnostic and monitoring methods. A consequence of such limited resources and restricted monitoring of therapy is the development of drug resistance, a major hurdle to HIV patient care worldwide. Our I2D project aims to develop a point-of-care tool that enables rapid detection of HIV drug resistance and/or drug adherence. We will talk about our recent progress in developing the sensing and detection unit of this low-cost point-of-care tool. The potential challenge of assembly a point-of-care device for HIV drug resistance screening will also be discussed.

 

12:45pm               Seed Grantee Klein Ileleji, Development of a Low-cost Grain Moisture Sensor Networked to Smart-phones

Currently, the portable hand-held meters in the market manufactured by well-known companies are too expensive (about $300) and above the reach of small and medium holder farmers. None of them have the means to capture data and share with a customer. Data is captured via an LCD display and hand-written down on paper, making it easy to manipulate, which is a major problem for long-distance trade transactions between the seller and buyer. We are proposing to develop and market a novel crop moisture sensor that will encompass data sharing between the seller and buyer thereby using mobile phones facilitating direct marketing of a crop by the small grower directly. This process empowers small- and medium-holder farmers with the means to directly market their crops to higher value markets in order to capture favorable prices rather than leave the margins of trade to the middleman.  

 

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, Monday October 2nd so Tami is able 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.

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ALL MEETINGS ARE 12:00-1:30PM IN WANG 2501

 

I2D Meeting Schedule: 2016- 2017

Wednesday, October 5:

Seed Grantees Chad Jafvert and John Howarter; Rural Potable Water Systems, and Gary Burniske, Logical Frameworks for Development Projects

Thursday, October 20:

Seed Grantees Jennifer DeBoer, Engineering Skills Curriculum and Digital Materials for Out-of-School Youth; and Yuehwern Yih, CRS Emergency Response E-Supply Chain Management System

Wednesday, November 2:

Seed Grantee Nandi Indoor Air Pollution Study (Danielle presenting) and Andrea Burniske, Monitoring and Evaluation for Development Projects

Thursday, November, 17:

Seed Grantees Chongli Yuan and Julie Liu, Cell-phone Based Detection of HIV Drug Resistance, and Klein Ileleji, Grain Moisture Sensor

Wednesday, December 7:

Seed Grantee Chip Blatchley and Margaret Busse, Solar UV Disinfection for Water Production in Developing Countries ; and Jackie Linnes, Rapid, low-cost detection of neo-natal sepsis

 

Andrea Burniske

Program Manager, i2D Lab

Global Engineering Programs

4th Floor, Wang Hall

Purdue University

West Lafayette, IN

Ph: 765.496.3533

Skype: AndreaLaBurniske