Dear I2D Lab Faculty Friends, The Eighth I2D Lab Meeting for Academic Year 2016 -2017 will be held on Wednesday, March 8, 11:30 (lunch) 12:00-1:00pm (meeting) in WANG 2501 - Please RSVP And note: We have shortened the meeting duration to ONE hour Please invite your colleagues. [cid:image002.png@01D2972C.CAD50900] 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 Wednesday, March 8, 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. 12:05pm - 12:30 Seed Grantee Yuehwern Yih(IE): CRS Emergency Response E-Supply Chain Management System: An efficient, reliable and sustainable emergency supply chain system plays a critical role in the entire process of humanitarian relief. Catholic Relief Services (CRS) (and most other NGOs) use an emergency response system that is paper-based. Delays and shortages of emergency relief materials due to human errors may occur anytime, which could potentially sabotage a relief plan and the safety of refugees. Purdue is working with CRS to develop a web-based, multi-platform, centralized, offline-compatible electrical emergency response system that is capable of connecting all warehouses, requesting relief materials, checking inventory levels, tracking relief materials from donors to beneficiaries, and automatically generating accounting and beneficiary reports. This application will ensure an efficient, reliable and sustainable supply chain management system for emergency responses. 12:30pm - 1:00pm Chad Jafvert (CE): Rural Potable Water Systems: Professors Jafvert and Howarter have developed a cost-effective, low-maintenance point-of-use water treatment technology to meet local needs of people living in underserved communities. Point-of-use water filters were first designed and tested at Purdue, and then constructed in Colombia at three rural elementary schools near Barbosa, Antioquia Colombia in June 2011. Although these filters are very effective and still in use, their construction was labor intensive and needed to be performed by an experienced person (i.e., someone from Purdue). The filters significantly improve water quality by removing particles and dissolved organic chemicals from the water, reducing turbidity below the U.S. drinking water standard of 1.0 NTU, and reducing taste and odor problems. Previous to our efforts, the school teachers in Colombia boiled the water to disinfect it prior to using it for cooking and drinking. Because turbidity is now removed from the water, alternative lower cost disinfection methods can now be used. Removal of the suspended particles is very important, as chemical disinfectants are much less efficient in inactivating micro-organisms that are encased within particle aggregates. The slow-sand-filters designed by Purdue University are made from readily available 5-gallon plastic pails. 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<mailto: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, Tuesday March 7th so we can 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ALL MEETINGS ARE 12:00-1:00PM 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<https://engineering.purdue.edu/GEP/I2DLab/Projects/Earthquake-Resilient> Thursday, April 20: Jennifer DeBoer (ENE): Engineering Skills Curriculum and Digital Materials for Out-of-school Youth<https://engineering.purdue.edu/GEP/I2DLab/Projects/ENGR-youth>; and 10 minute presentations from new grantees Andrea Burniske Program Manager, i2D Lab Global Engineering Programs 4th Floor, Wang Hall Purdue University West Lafayette, IN Ph: 765.496.3533 Skype: AndreaLaBurniske
