Head's Up about Wednesday's faculty meeting. Faculty presenters, please invite your colleagues. Note that I will send out a reminder next week, and this reminder will contain an abstract of the presentations [cid:image003.png@01D26A71.2626C750] 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, January 11, 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 Jackie Linnes (BME): Point-of-Care Detection of Neonatal Sepsis Neonatal sepsis, an infection of the bloodstream, is the most common cause of infant mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Currently, sepsis detection in high-risk newborns requires days of culture and is presumptively treated with expensive, wide-spectrum IV antibiotics. Working with Prof. Fabian Esamai at Moi University College of Health Sciences in Eldoret Kenya, we are in our second year of I2D Lab seed funding to develop a rapid, low-cost, point-of-care diagnostic to detect and differentiate bacterial pathogens causing neonatal sepsis. We will talk about our progress developing a portable, paper-based device that integrates bacterial capture from a blood sample, DNA amplification, and detection of four separate pathogens. The challenges to implementation as well as additional applications of the platform will also be described. 12:45pm Vilas Pol (ChE): Upcycling of Plastic Bags Environmentally harmful plastic waste is a major concern throughout the world. The developed novel autogenic process completely destroys unsorted plastic waste in a technologically beneficial, environmentally responsible manner before the plastic enters the waste stream. The one-step, low-energy, solvent-less process is called "upcycling" because it produces products having greater value than the original plastics, particularly structurally tunable carbon microspheres that have important tribological and battery applications, and carbon nanotubes that proved to be superior to carbon microspheres for tribological uses. 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, Monday October 2nd so Tami is able 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 12:00-1:30PM 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<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