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SUMMARY:EssentialTalk - Global by Design: Leveraging Engineering  Science 
 for Global  Development
DTSTART:20241104T120000
DTEND:20241104T140000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Amos G. Winter\, V Prof. Winter's research focuses on ma
 chine and product design for developing and emerging markets. Prof. Winter
  earned a BS from Tufts university (2003) and an MS (2005) and PhD (2011) 
 from MIT\, all in mechanical engineering. He received the 2010 Tufts Unive
 rsity Young Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award\, the 2012 ASME/Pi au S
 igma Gold Medal\, was named one of the MIT Technology Review's 35 innovato
 rs under 35 (TR35) for 2013\, and received the MIT Edgerton Faculty Achiev
 ement Award and an NSF CAREER award in 2017. Prof. Winter is the principal
   inventor of the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC) developing world wheelcha
 ir\, which was a winner of a 2010 R&D award\, was named one of the Wall St
 reet Journal's top innovations in 2011\, received a Patents for Humanity a
 ward from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2015\, and was the subje
 ct of "Engineering Reverse Innovations"\, winner of the 2015 McKinsey Awar
 d for the best article of the year in Harvard Business Review.\nThis talk 
 will highlight how the K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research (GEAR)
  Center at MIT is creating technologies that are global by design. this en
 tails spotting and quantifying meritorious problems\, leveraging engineeri
 ng science to create high-performance\, low-cost solutions\, and engaging 
 a wide network of stakeholders that are positioned to catalyze adoption an
 d dissemination. The following research projects will be presented:\n\n1) 
 Time-variant photovoltaic-powered electrodialysis (PV-ED) desalination sys
 tems that continually vary pumping and salt extraction power to match avai
 lable solar power. Compared to industry standard grid-powered reverse osmo
 sis\, GEAR Center's PV-ED systems are at price parity and reduce water was
 tage by 75%.\n\n2) Ultra-low pressure\, low-cost drip irrigation emitters 
 that were realized by characterizing fluid-structure parametric design rel
 ationships. GEAR Center's emitters cut pumping power by up to 69%\, reduce
  the cost of solar-powered irrigation by up to 40%\, and require 58% less 
 plastic than current products.\n\n3) Low-cost\, solar powered precision ag
 riculture irrigation systems that use AI to predict weather\, set an irrig
 ation schedule\, and continually minimize energy and water consumption whi
 le maximizing crop productivity. In our first real-world field trial\, GEA
 R Center's irrigation controllers reduced water use by 44% and energy by 3
 9% compared to traditional drip irrigation practice.\n\n4) High-performanc
 e\, low-cost plastic prosthetic feet created by predictively and quantitat
 ively connecting their mechanical design to biomechanical performance. GEA
 R Center's feet facilitate near-able-bodied biomechanics and perform as we
 ll or better than industry-standard carbon fiber feet that cost up to 100x
  as much.
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