Please try and attend. You are also welcome to bring along one or two students who would be interested in attending. 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.

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.

The meeting schedule for 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

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

Tuesday, October 27

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

Talk 2. Gary Burniske & Suzanne Nielsen, Engineering’s role in food security

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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