Colleagues, The next I2D Lab meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, September 29 at 12:00-1:30pm in WANG 2501 with the following guest presentations (each 15 mins talk + 10 mins questions): Talk 1. John Lumkes, ABE, Practical Utility Platform (PUP) a flexible, low-cost PLATFORM for transporting heavy loads over rough terrain, and for powering a variety of labor-saving implements. Talk 2. Carol Handwerker, MSE, Sustainable Electronics: IGERT - Integrative Graduate Education, Training, and Research Please try and attend. You are also welcome to bring along 1 or 2 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<mailto: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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ALL MEETINGS ARE 12:00-1:30PM IN WANG 2501 Lunch provided for all meetings. Please RSVP to Tami Sells (tsells@purdue.edu<mailto: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, 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 _____________________________________________________________________________