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.

A schedule of I2D Lab meetings and guest presentations is provided below and in the attached. The first I2D Lab meeting of this semester is scheduled for Thursday, January 14 at 12:00-1:30pm in WANG 2501 with the following agenda:

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

12:15pm John Lumkes, Purdue Utility Platform

12:45pm I2D Lab- CGFS Seed Grant Program Discussion

1:15pm Roundtable updates

This semester, we will also be offering the opportunity to join I2D Lab meetings remotely via WebEx. Connection details for the meeting on Thursday, January 14 at 12:00pm EST follow:

Meeting link: https://purdue.webex.com/purdue/j.php?MTID=m45842086fec3ca60a69a86f039e53f30

Meeting number: : 647 437 104

Meeting password: innovate

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 with Tami Sells (tsells@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.

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

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

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27

Yuehwern Yih, Humanitarian response and supply chain management

I2D Lab-CGFS Seed Grant Program Discussion

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11

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

Ray DeCarlo, et al., to be announced

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24

Jacqueline Linnes, Point-of-care detection of neonatal sepsis 

To be announced

THURSDAY, MARCH 10

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

Klein Ileleji, Capacity building in stored commodity management in Nigeria: Training to extension research

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23

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

Chip Blatchley, Continuous-flow solar UVB disinfection of water 

FRIDAY, APRIL 1: I2D LAB EXPOSITION – featuring speakers

THURSDAY, APRIL 7

De-brief and follow-up from the I2D Lab Exposition

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20

To be announced