Colleagues,

I wish to provide a reminder of the first I2D Lab meeting of the semester taking place tomorrow, Wednesday, September 2 at 12:00pm in WANG 2501. 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 see I2D Lab info/vision sheet attached).

If you have not yet done so, we ask that you RSVP with Tami Sells (tsells@purdue.edu) to this, and subsequent meetings so that we can obtain a count for lunch.

A few talks have been added to the semester’s schedule, so please see the revised meeting schedule for the semester below.

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

Lunch provided for all meetings. Please RSVP to Tami Sells (tsells@purdue.edu).

Meeting format:

12:00pm    I²D Lab announcements – funding opportunities, upcoming campus visitors and events, etc.

12:15pm    Brief talk 1 plus discussion (titles below)

12:45 pm   Brief talk 2 plus discussion (titles below)

1:15pm      Updates/new business

Wednesday, September 2

Talk 1. Yuehwern Yih, Humanitarian response and supply chain management

Talk 2. Chad Jafvert  & John Howarter, Medium capacity slow sand filters & Smart phone-based spectrophotometer+turbidity meter for water testing

Thursday, September 17

Talk 1. Jacqueline Linnes, Point-of-care detection of neonatal sepsis

Talk 2. You-Yeon Won, Development of a cost effective treatment for neonatal RDS in low-resource countries

Tuesday, September 29

Talk 1. John Lumkes, Practical Utility Platform (PUP)

Talk 2. Carol Handwerker, Sustainable Electronics: IGERT - Integrative Graduate Education, Training, and Research

Wednesday, October 14

Talk 1. Jennifer DeBoer, Engineering skills curriculum and digital materials for out of school youth

Talk 2. To be announced

Tuesday, October 27

Talk 1. Jun Chen, Micro-hydropower for powering rural African communities: Opportunities, challenges, and lessons

Talk 2. To be announced

Wednesday, November 11

Talk 1. Chad Jafvert & John Howarter, Medium capacity slow sand filters & Smart phone-based spectrophotometer+turbidity meter for water testing

Talk 2. Yuehwern Yih, Humanitarian response and supply chain management

Thursday, December 10

Talk 1. Jacqueline Linnes, Point-of-care detection of neonatal sepsis

Talk 2. Jennifer DeBoer, Engineering skills curriculum and digital materials for out of school youth

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