Sixth I2D Lab Meeting Academic Year 2016 - 2017 Thursday, January 26, 11:30 (lunch) 12:00-1:30pm (meeting) in WANG 2501 – Please RSVP

 

Please invite your colleagues.

 

Also, attached is the 2017 I2D Lab Expo Flyer

 

Finally – remember that Friday, January 27th is the deadline for DRAFT proposal submissions. If you would like assistance from I2D Lab in identifying partners or looking over your proposal, this is the time to do it.

 

 

 

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, January 26, 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.

 

12:15pm              Seed Grantee Chip Blatchley (CE): Solar UV Disinfection for Water Production in Developing Countries (Profs. Ernest Blatchley III, Bruce Applegate, Joseph Camp, Jr.) – This project involves the development and implementation of continuous-flow water disinfection systems for production of potable water that use solar radiation.  Ongoing research among the PIs and a graduate student has allowed for demonstration of the efficacy of solar UVB radiation against bacteria and protozoa.  Results of recently completed experiments have demonstrated that ambient solar UVB radiation is effective for inactivation of Salmonella typhi LT2 and Vibrio harveyi; these two species of bacteria are non-pathogenic, but are closely related to the bacteria that cause typhoid fever and cholera, respectively. More recent results have indicated the efficacy of solar UVB radiation against the oocysts of Cryptosporidium parvum, a common protozoan parasite. Collectively, these responses indicate that solar UVB radiation is effective for inactivation of the microbial pathogens that are responsible for the majority of waterborne, communicable disease outbreaks in developing countries.

Related work involves the development of “direct” and “indirect” solar UV disinfection systems.  In the direct solar UV reactors, ambient sunlight is amplified and focused on a small region, through which water is pumped to allow adequate exposure to UVB radiation.  In the indirect systems, low-cost solar panels are used to convert solar radiation into electrical power.  In turn, this electrical power is used to drive small, commercially-available UV disinfection systems that are based on “artificial” sources of germicidal UV radiation, such as mercury lamps or UV light emitting diodes (UV LEDs).The results of work to date indicate that both approaches (direct and indirect) are effective for disinfection of water.  Water treatment systems based on these reactors could represent important components of systems to produce safe, affordable water at a community scale.  Implementation of these systems will likely follow a particle separation process, such as a simple sand filter.  This approach to treatment will conform to the multiple-barrier concept, which represents the contemporary standard for water treatment.  An example of such a technology would be the filtration system that has been developed and implemented by the Jafvert Group in Civil Engineering at Purdue University.  The proposed project will involve field experiments on the Purdue campus, in the Dominican Republic (DR), and in Kenya.  Experiments at Purdue University will involve testing of prototype systems to develop simple, inexpensive systems to control flow rate through the system.  Field experiments in the DR and Kenya will be conducted to quantify actual performance in the field and to address non-technical barriers to implementation of these technologies.

 

12:45pm              Gary Burniske (CGFS): How can we position ourselves to respond to donor RFPs? Every day the US Government (USAID, State Department, and others), foundations and other donors release calls for proposals that request solutions to global challenges. These Calls require different approaches and different outcomes than NSF, NIH, etc. proposals, and yet your research translations could be part of these solutions. But how do we prepare to respond to these Calls in a timely manner, with a competitive bid?  Gary Burniske has more than 35 years of experience writing such proposals and managing global development projects.

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, Tuesday January 24th 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.

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ALL MEETINGS ARE 12:00-1:30PM 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

Thursday, April 20:

Jennifer DeBoer (ENE): Engineering Skills Curriculum and Digital Materials for Out-of-school 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