Project Nature:
Biotechnology
Brief Project Description and Objectives:
1. Study the efficiency of needle shaped haematite nanoparticles in the microplastic binding and degradation and to characterise their mineralisation process.
2. To design and develop haematite nanoparticles incorporated plastic films and investigate its plastic self-degradation efficiency.
3. To synthesize haematite coated iron oxide (HI) nanoparticles for easy separation and degradation of microplastics in water bodies.
4. Immobilisation of PETase enzyme on HI nanoparticles, thus employing synergistic effect to increase the MP degradation and segregation efficiency.
5. To develop an affordable nanoproduct to mitigate microplastics, in faster rate.
Preferred Background of Applicants
Biology, chemistry
Project Nature:
Analytical, Model development, Interviews and surveys and system engineering
Brief Project Description and Objectives:
The projects is for developing models and approaches to study the energy transition to low carbon sources. These models will be built for specific use cases such as reducing carbon foot print of agriculture and industry considering the various factors, stakeholder and leverage. The key deliverables from the project will be to develop a scenario analysis tool using ABM approach for the agricultural and industrial sector in Africa and other emerging countries
Preferred Background of Applicants
Engineering (Any), exposure to mathematical and statistical modeling, programming knowledge, good written and oral skills
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Tell me one problem in your country which is essential for achieving energy transition and who are the influencers on that problem?
Project Nature:
Will involve simulations, laboratory experiments and field trials
Brief Project Description and Objectives:
Our group has been developing robotic and software dashboard platforms for applications in the water, sanitation and health and industrial safety segments. For example: robotic inspection of distribution water pipes, sewer networks; secure ledgers for healthcare data management. This project seeks to further develop these solutions and tailor them for applications in both India and East Africa. Water & Sewer Pipe inspection robots and data management dashboards will be customised and Laboratory/ field tested. Sensor driven decisions will be studied. Waveguide sensors for specific use cases will be studied.
Preferred Background of Applicants
Engineering, with aptitude for: 1. Open source electronics 2. Coding 3. Experiments
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What role can technology play in addressing societal challenges and meeting UN sustainable development goals?
Project Nature:
Analytical research along with field work
Brief Project Description and Objectives:
A cold chain or cool chain is a temperature-controlled supply chain that involves the storage, transportation and distribution of perishable goods such as vaccine, chemical, sea-food, meats and dairy products. These goods should always be kept within the recommended range of temperatures to preserve and extend their shelf life. Current research shows that exposure to temperatures outside the recommended ranges can be as high as 40%, especially in low income countries. These excursions result in various undesired effects including illness and death. In this project, we seek to study the cold chains of perishable items, uncover the common failure that afflict them, and develop practical interventions that can be implemented. This project is part of an ongoing collaboration with a national regulator in Zambia and the PRISM institute in Canada.
Preferred Background of Applicants
Any branch of engineering with interest in applied research
Project Nature:
Feasibility of implementation using implementation research framework
Brief Project Description and Objectives:
Early detection and intervention of hearing loss has been a challenge in the context of LMICs owing to the high capital and recurring costs associated with suitable devices that support screening. We have developed a low cost screening device to address this gap. This device is being currently assessed for feasibility of implementation in rural south India.
Based on the preliminary findings, some refinements are proposed.
Considering the similarity of context between India and African subcontinent, it would be worthwhile to conduct multi site feasibility studies involving further adaptations and refinements to the screening device.
Preferred Background of Applicants
Audiology, Speech language pathology, Social scientist, audiology assistant, or electrical engineer with field study experience.
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What is your understanding of local health care administration in your country?
Project Nature:
Agricultural engineering
Brief Project Description and Objectives:
In India and many developing countries there is a shortage of labour in farms. Hence post harvest handling of crops especially conveying from field to nearest road is very problematic. The candidate has to design a simple and reliable and economical transportation system to carry the harvested products from field to nearest road. It can be a ropeway, cable way, rails etc but affordable to farmers in developing countries. What is envisaged in only a theortical model with computational simulations.
Preferred Background of Applicants
Engineering background.
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How much are you aware of agricultural mechanization problems in developing countries, their social and economic significance?
Project Nature:
Food preservation vial low temperature creation without electricity.
Brief Project Description and Objectives:
To create low temperature, low pressure will be created, and steam will be generated. The steam will take latent heat, and the remaining liquid temperature will be low. This will assist to preserve food for a longer duration. The system will be human-operated, and no electricity is required.
Preferred Background of Applicants
Mechanical Engineering
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How can you preserve milk for a longer duration where electricity is not there?
Project Nature:
Agricultural waste to high value added applications
Brief Project Description and Objectives:
The project involves assessing the agricultural waste generated, characterizing and identifying the high valued added applications in the mechanical engineering domain. Priority will be for the electric vehicle applications. Various mechanical properties will be assessed as needed for specific applications and also the integration with synthetic materials following the architected desing approach will be investigated.
Preferred Background of Applicants
Mechanical engineering, Materials engineering, Polymer engineering
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Project Nature:
Biomedical signal analysis
Brief Project Description and Objectives:
Characterizing fatigue is crucial in the fields of sports biomechanics, rehabilitation engineering, and occupational ergonomics, as it can help in preventing muscle injury due to heavy exertion. Electromyography (EMG) is a widely utilized technique to monitor the fatiguing phenomena in muscle from myoelectric activity. Analysis of EMG signals using conventional linear techniques is inadequate due to the inherent nonlinearity and non-stationarity in the signal as a result of the underlying complex physiological system. Recent advancement in nonlinear signal processing techniques is demonstrated to be effectively characterizing other complex bio signals such as electrocardiogram and electroencephalogram. The aim of the present project is to analyze the EMG signals in fatiguing contractions using various nonlinear techniques. For this purpose, EMG signals have to be acquired from the muscle under a controlled fatiguing protocol. Furthermore, appropriate nonlinear approaches to EMG signal processing are to be identified to characterize fatigue in the muscle.
Preferred Background of Applicants
Time series analysis
Project Nature:
Biomedical Signal analysis
Brief Project Description and Objectives:
Tremendous advances in the health-care industry has led to the evolution of various imaging sensors, the data from which can be fused together to provide complementary information. This could help in improving the diagnostic accuracy and thereby, aid in the therapeutic interventions. Image fusion has become a hotspot in the diagnosis of several neurological disorders such as dementia. This proposal envisages a framework to characterize the dementic conditions using intelligent multi-modal medical image fusion approaches and analysis.
The basic components of the proposal include identification of appropriate algorithms for multi-modal image fusion, development of intelligent approaches to decouple the interdependencies among the considered modalities and computational methods suitable for patient-specific diagnostics and therapeutics of dementic conditions. Through this framework, it is also aimed to explore significant biomarkers that are indicative of the severity of dementic states using data driven algorithms.
Preferred Background of Applicants
Basics of Computational Modelling
