2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference Technology for the Benefit of Humanity
Table of Contents Welcome Message from Conference Chair and Vice-Chair ...... 3 Welcome Message from Technical Program Co-Chairs ...... 4 GHTC 2013 Sponsors ...... 5 GHTC 2013 Proud Patrons ...... 6 Supports of GHTC 2013 come from you and …...... 7 October 20, 2013 (Sunday) Program Summary ...... 8 IEEE PES CSI (Community Solutions Initiative) Workshop ...... 9 Tutorial A: Off-Grid Power – Analysis and Practice ...... 11 Tutorial B: Building Affordable Community Network ...... 12 GOLD & WIE Session...... 13 October 21, 2013 (Monday) Program Summary ...... 14 Opening Plenary ...... 15 Technical Paper Session A1: Energy I...... 16 Technical Paper Session A2: Education I ...... 17 Workshop Session A3: EPICS in IEEE ...... 18 Technical Paper Session B1: Energy II ...... 19 Technical Paper Session B2: Education II, Disaster I ...... 20 Workshop Session B3: IEEE Actionable Data Book – Beyond the Horseless Carriage ...... 21 Technical Paper Session C1: Energy III ...... 22 Technical Paper Session C2: Disaster II ...... 23 Student Poster and Paper Contests ...... 24 Dinner Reception ...... 25 October 22, 2013 (Tuesday) Program Summary ...... 26 Tuesday Plenary ...... 27 Technical Paper Session D1: Health I ...... 29 Technical Paper Session D2: Water & Agriculture I ...... 30 Workshop: IEEE SIGHT ...... 31
GHTC 2012 Page 1 Technical Posters ...... 32 Technical Paper Session F1: Health II ...... 33 Technical Paper Session F2: Water & Agriculture II ...... 34 Panel Session F3: Culturally Relevant and Usable Innovation and Technology ...... 35 Technical Paper Session G1: Health III, GHTC-SAS Best Papers ...... 36 Technical Paper Session G2: Connectivity and Communication ...... 37 Young Professional Project Contest ...... 38 Social Event and Award Ceremony ...... 39 October 23, 2013 (Wednesday) Program Summary ...... 41 Technical Paper Session H1: Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities I ...... 42 Technical Paper Session H2: Humanitarian Application I ...... 43 X-Track Session H3 ...... 44 Technical Paper Session J1: Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities II ...... 45 Technical Paper Session J2: Humanitarian Application II ...... 46 X-Track Session J3 ...... 46 Hotel Floor Plan ...... 47 GHTC 2014 Call For Papers ...... 48
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2013 GHTC Page 2 Welcome Message from Conference Chair and Vice-Chair
Keith Moore GHTC 2013 General Chair [email protected]
It’s my pleasure to welcome you to the 3rd IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference. IEEE’s Region 6 is proud to sponsor the conference. We are bringing together technologists from NGO’s, academe, industry, government and funders to present papers, discuss projects, cover new technologies, identify needs, help find new project partners and share with other attendees.
The Program committee has done an extraordinary job of assembling this year’s program with technical sessions and panel sessions addressing critical and evolving work in the humanitarian field. We’ll be including student paper and poster competitions. Throughout the conference, please take time to gather and meet with other attendees to continue discussions from sessions or meet to discuss opportunities.
Thanks to all of our partners and patrons for their continued support of the conference. My personal thanks to all of the members of the steering committee and the advisory committee for their work on bringing the conference together. And thank you to all of the authors and attendees for your support and participation. I hope you find this year’s conference a rewarding experience as we gather together to help change the world.
Soon Wan GHTC 2013 Vice Chair [email protected]
On behalf of the steering Committee, I welcome you to the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference 2013. We are excited about this year conference, and believe it will meet IEEE’s core purpose to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. This 3rd annual conference continues to focus on applying technology to solve the world’s most pressing humanitarian and development challenges. It has become the IEEE and IEEE Region 6 flagship annual conference designed to gather scientists, engineers, technology professionals, academics, foundations, government and non-government organizations, and individuals engaged in humanitarian works to discuss and develop solutions for present and future humanitarian needs.
This year conference is packed with three days of oral presentation sessions organized into three technical tracks, plus posters, tutorials, plenary keynotes, panel sessions, workshops, contests, and award ceremony. There should be something for everyone in attendance. We have plenary keynote speakers from industry, academia, non-profit organization, government agency, Foundation and NGO.
Please take the opportunity to take all you can away from the conference to enhance your personal and professional growth, network with friends and colleagues, meet new ones, and enjoy the conference!
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Welcome Message from Technical Program Co-Chairs
Welcome from the Technical Program Committee
The Technical Program Committee welcomes you to San Jose, California and to the 2013 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference. We have worked hard to develop a truly international program featuring keynote speakers, panelists, papers and posters from across the spectrum of humanitarian engineering and technology.
This year we received 177 full paper submissions from authors affiliated with NGOs, corporations, and universities. About 60 reviewers participated in the peer-review process. The final program contains sessions focused on health; energy; education; water and agriculture; disaster response and preparation; communication and connectivity; and other specialized topics.
We hope that you find the conference beneficial to you and your organization’s mission in the humanitarian technology space. Finally, we encourage you to become involved in next year’s conference. Please consider submitting a paper, serving as a reviewer or becoming involved in the organizing committee.
Technical Program Co-Chairs
Daniel Lottis Ed Perkins Randy Britto
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October 20, 2013 (Sunday) Program Summary
IEEE PES CSI (Community Solutions Initiative) Workshop 8:30am – 5:00pm Governor’s House C+D
GHTC Registration 11:00am – 7:00pm Mediterranean Center – Prefunction Foyer
Tutorial A: Off-Grid Power - Analysis and Practice 12:00pm – 3:00pm Governor’s House A+B
Tutorial B: Building Affordable Community Networks 3:30pm – 6:45pm Governor’s House A+B
Welcome Reception 6:00pm – 7:00pm Mediterranean Center
GOLD (Graduates Of the Last Decade) and WIE (Women In Engineering) Session 7:30pm – 9:30pm Mediterranean Center
Thomson Nguyen, Framed Data "Data Science for Good: How We Use Engineering and Machine Learning to Affect Societal Change”
2013 GHTC Page 8 October 20, 2013 (Sunday) IEEE PES CSI (Community Solutions Initiative) Workshop 8:30am – 5:00pm Governor’s House C+D
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2013 GHTC Page 10 October 20, 2013 (Sunday) Tutorial A: Off-Grid Power – Analysis and Practice 12:00pm – 3:00pm Governor’s House A+B
Abstract: Unmet power needs in rural areas of the developing world are expected to persist for several decades. Selecting the appropriate power system and creating a viable implementation plan are not trivial problems. This tutorial compares the techno-economics of various power system options, and demonstrates how to match power needs to technical and financial solutions.
The first part of the tutorial introduces methods for selecting power system technologies using the HOMER Energy software—a software package for optimizing power system composition and size. An interactive demo is included, and steps provided to obtain and maintain the HOMER software using a free trial version provided to attendees. The latter part of the tutorial discusses implementation plans for various applications such as solar lanterns, battery charging stations, village-scale micro-grids, and similar projects. The session will conclude with an open discussion of the on-ground challenges and best practices for implementing technologies, sustaining a project, and scaling your solution.
Dr. Nathan Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering and Computing Systems at Arizona State University. He is an active researcher and teacher of sustainability, multidisciplinary design, and energy systems modeling and optimization. Dr. Johnson’s work combines field research, laboratory research, and computational modeling to develop decision-making tools that support the design of sustainable products and services around the world. These tools are primarily applied in the assessment and design of micro-grid power systems and heat systems.
His two years of field research in eight developing countries has provided him with a unique perspective on rural energy needs. Dr. Johnson’s dissertation research describes village energy system dynamics in West Africa. His analysis provides a set of quantitative and narrative design guidelines for sustainably addressing energy needs in rural Mali. During an NSF/ASEE postdoctoral fellowship at HOMER Energy, Dr. Johnson expanded the modeling and optimization capabilities of the HOMER micro-grid software to address the technical requirements of large distributed complex power systems.
In addition, Dr. Johnson has a long-term interest in domestic cooking technologies. His research in safety protocols for solid fuel cookstoves has been included in the ISO’s standards development process to reduce the incidence of burns, cuts, scalds, and property loss from open fires.
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October 20, 2013 (Sunday) Tutorial B: Building Affordable Community Network 3:30pm – 6:45pm Governor’s House A+B
Abstract: Community network is a term used broadly to indicate the use of networking technologies by, and for, a local community. Most community networks originated in rural areas which commercial telecom operators left behind when deploying the broadband access infrastructure for the urban areas. Community networks are a successful case of resource sharing among a collective. Wireless community networks use affordable wireless devices to link the community’s members.
The first part of this tutorial will focus on building wireless networks in universities, schools, villages, and other communities of interest to provide Internet access using wireless network technologies, with an emphasis on affordability and scalability. Based on field experiences working in dozens of programs around the world to build wireless infrastructure and train network developers, the session will outline strategies and techniques for planning, deploying and managing wireless networks for research, education, health maintenance and humanitarian use. The second part of this tutorial will focus on sharing resources on community networks.
Currently, the main shared resource is networking. Computing and storage resource sharing, such as is now common practice in today’s Internet through Cloud computing, hardly exists in community networks, so currently the services and applications offered in community networks run on machines exclusively dedicated to a single member. By using concrete examples from the ‘Community’ project, the speakers will illustrate how Cloud computing can be implemented in a community network. The tutorial will highlight systems-based design, emphasizing participatory development to optimize the best outcome for the local user community. The audience for this tutorial will be network developers, community champions, service providers, university system administrators, and NGOs program managers seeking to build or improve the capabilities of wireless networks.
Marco Zennaro received his M.Sc. Degree in Electronic Engineering from University of Trieste in Italy. He defended his PhD thesis on “Wireless Sensor Networks for Development: Potentials and Open Issues” at KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. His research interest is in ICT4D, the use of ICT for Development. In particular, he is interested in Wireless Networks and in Wireless Sensor Networks in developing countries. He has been giving lectures on Wireless technologies in more than 20 countries.
Ermanno Pietrosemoli is currently a researcher at the Telecommunications/ICT for Development Lab of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy, and President of Fundación Escuela Latinoamericana de Redes “EsLaRed”, a non-profit organization that promotes ICT in Latin America through training and development projects. EsLaRed was awarded the 2008 Jonathan B.Postel Service Award by the Internet Society. Ermanno has been deploying wireless data communication networks focusing on low cost technology, and has participated in the planning and building of wireless data networks in Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Italy, Lesotho, Malawi, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, Trinidad, U.S.A. and Venezuela.
Sebastian Büttrich works with (low-cost) wireless technology, open source software and solar energy to build networks, systems, skills and capacity — as a manager, developer, architect, consultant and teacher. This work is focused on (but not limited to) developing countries and communities, especially in Asia and Africa. One current focus is to help develop campus networks for research and education, with emphasis on global integration and sustainability.
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Data Science for Good: How We Use Engineering and Machine Learning to Affect Societal Change Thomson Nguyen, Founder and CEO, Framed Data
The Harvard Business Review calls the modern Data Scientist “the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century.” The advent of a number of technologies, methods, and processes to filter, mine, and represent large amounts of data have given us the unique ability to intuit real insight from aggregate chaos. And yet, “the best minds of [our] generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.” Never has there ever been a more prudent time to use our abilities in machine learning and information processing to affect positive change in society. This talk will cover examples of men and women who use data science for good: in for-profit corporations that align corporate social responsibility with collective action in non-profit organizations that seek to implement lasting technical and infrastructural solutions for municipal governments, and NGOs that use data to apply evidence-based policies to reach millennium development goals.
Thomson Nguyen is the co-founder and CEO at Framed Data, where he works on various data problems in analytics, infrastructure, and machine learning for non- profits, NGOs, and businesses. He is also a visiting scholar at the Courant Institute for Mathematical Sciences at NYU, researching malware diffusion in social networks. He was the first data scientist at Causes, the world’s largest online campaigning platform that seeks to facilitate collective action by linking online support with offline action.
Thomson is also a mentor at Code for America, a non-partisan, non-political non- profit organization that partners engineers and designers with local governments to create lasting solutions to policy, technology, and infrastructural problems. He studied Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Computational Biology at the University of Cambridge.
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October 21, 2013 (Monday) Program Summary
7:00am GHTC Registration and Breakfast Mediterranean Center – Prefunction Foyer
8:00am – 10:00am Opening Plenary Mediterranean Center – Riveria & Granada
10:30am – 12:30pm Energy I (Riveria & Granada) Education I (Castillian) EPICS in IEEE Workshop (Monte Carlo)
12:30am – 1:30pm Lunch, Student Posters and Exhibits (Prefunction Foyer)
1:30pm – 3:30pm Energy II (Riveria & Granada) Education II (Castillian) Disaster I (Castillian) Workshop: IEEE ADB eBooks for Learning (Monte Carlo)
4:00pm – 6:00pm Energy III (Riveria & Granada) Disaster II (Castillian) Student Poster and Paper Contests (Monte Carlo)
6:30pm – 9:30pm Dinner Reception Mediterranean Center – Riveria & Granada Jim Plummer, Dean of Engineering, Stanford University "Preparing Students for Innovative, Game Changing, Purposeful Careers"
Tyler Valiquette, Co-Founder, Catapult Design "A Design Perspective on Engineering for Development: Get to Know your Users"
2013 GHTC Page 14 October 21, 2013 (Monday) Opening Plenary 8:00am – 10:0am Mediterranean Center – Riveria & Granada
Welcoming Remarks – Keith Moore, Conference Chair Opening Remarks – Peter Staecker, IEEE President Keynotes:
Diagnostics tools for neglected tropical diseases Tala de los Santos, PATH
Tala de los Santos is the Diagnostic Group Leader at PATH, an international nonprofit organization that transforms global health though innovation. Ms. de los Santos leads a group of scientists, public health specialists, and business strategists focused on developing and introducing appropriate, affordable, and high-impact diagnostic tests for use in low-resource health facilities all over the world. PATH’s diagnostics portfolio includes innovative diagnostic technologies for HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, neglected tropical diseases, and non- communicable diseases.
Ms. de los Santos brings more than ten years of experience managing technology development and commercialization in public-private partnerships. She has been extensively involved in the each step of the product life cycle including developing market and product requirements during the early feasibility phase, collaborating with R&D to ensure fidelity to the target product profile and timely product launch, and managing supply-chain logistics. Ms. de los Santos holds an MS in human genetics from Stanford University, an MBA from Seattle University, and a BA in biological sciences from Mount Holyoke College. For more information about Ms. de los Santos’s work go to: http://sites.path.org/dx/
Computational Microscopy, Sensing and Diagnostics for Telemedicine and Global Health Application Aydogan Ozcan, UCLA
Dr. Ozcan is a Professor at UCLA leading the Bio- and Nano-Photonics Laboratory at the Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering Departments. Dr. Ozcan holds 22 issued patents and 15 pending patent applications and is also the author of one book and the co-author of more than 270 peer reviewed research articles.
Dr. Ozcan received several awards including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), SPIE Biophotonics Technology Innovator Award, SPIE Early Career Achievement Award, ARO Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award and MIT’s TR35 Award for his seminal contributions to near-field and on-chip imaging, and telemedicine based diagnostics. Dr. Ozcan is also the recipient of the National Geographic Emerging Explorer Award, Popular Science Brilliant 10 Award, Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Award. Ozcan is a Fellow of SPIE and a Senior Member of IEEE. For more information about Dr. Ozcan, his work and team please go to http://innovate.ee.ucla.edu .
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October 21, 2013 (Monday) Technical Paper Session A1: Energy I 10:30am – 12:30pm Riveria & Granada
Session Chair: Kendra Sharp
Paper Time Paper Title Author Names ID
On-Board Solar Power for Small-Scale 10:30am 11 Satish Babu, Vincent Jain Distant-water Fishing Vessels
Darick LaSelle, Robert Liechty, Low Cost Solar Thermal Energy Generation 10:45am 39 Nathan Clark, Hassan Alzamzam, for Developing Economies Jasmin Dzabic, Robert Foster
Stefano Mandelli, Emanuela A small-hydro plant model for feasibility Colombo, Bonaventure Saanane, 11:00am 42 analysis of electrification projects in rural Andrea Redondi, Francesco Tanzania Bernardi, Prosper Mgaya, Johnstone Malisa
Biogas – An Alternative Household Cooking 11:15am 46 Likonge Makai, Marta Molinas Technique for Zambia
Design of a Hybrid Renewable Energy System 11:30am 56 Marielle Magtibay, Diana Wong for a Northern Ontario Community
A Modular Simulation Platform for testing Eleder Araneta, Marta Molinas, 11:45am 57 Hybrid DC/AC Future Grid Solutions for Elisabetta Tedeschi Remote Areas
2013 GHTC Page 16 October 21, 2013 (Monday) Technical Paper Session A2: Education I 10:30am – 12:30pm Castillian
Session Chair: Charles Herget
Paper Time Paper Title Author Names ID
An EPICS-in-IEEE initiative: learners of St Alban’s College and students of the University Saurabh Sinha, Chris Mouton, 10:30am 3 of Pretoria seek earth observation solutions Phumudzo Bebwele through air-quality microsensing
An electronic solution to automate the process 10:45am 8 Piotr Osuch, Saurabh Sinha of Grade-1 Braille training
Engaging Diverse Learners through New 11:00am 10 Carol Shepherd, Nadelon Alpert Technologies
Developing Engineering Programmes 11:15am 62 specialising in renewable energy for Alan Rocha Environmental Sustainability
The IEEE Actionable Data Book: A Platform Edilson Arenas, Tyde Richards, 11:30am 81 For Inclusive Education Avron Barr
Enhancing Student Engagement in the Online 11:45am 109 Enid Acosta-Tello Classroom
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October 21, 2013 (Monday) Workshop Session A3: EPICS in IEEE 10:30am – 12:30pm Monte Carlo
Abstract: The workshop will include an overview of IEEE’s implementation of the Engineering Projects In Community Service (EPICS) Program of Purdue University. The EPICS in IEEE program fosters partnerships between university students and high school students to work with non-profit organizations to deliver technical solutions to local communities. The overview will include examples of successful partnerships from around the globe. Following the overview, attendees will participate in an interactive session focused on developing a proposal/petition for funding, followed by a presentation on next steps.
Presenters: Kapil Dandekar and Prasanna Venkatesan
Kapil R. Dandekar (S’95–M’01–SM’07) received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering (1997) from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (1998, 2001), Austin, TX. Beginning in 2001, he joined the faculty at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. He is currently an Associate Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University; the Director of the Drexel Wireless Systems Laboratory; Associate Dean for Research in the Drexel University College of Engineering. Dandekar’s research has been supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Army CERDEC, National Security Agency, Office of Naval Research, and private industry. Dandekar’s current research interests and publications involve wireless, ultrasonic, and optical communications, reconfigurable antennas, and sensor networks. Antenna technology from DWSL has been licensed by external companies for technology commercialization.
Prasanna Venkatesan is the co-founder of amgonna.com and hubvents.com . He is primarily interested in business models and technology that can enable effective real life people connections. Prior to this he worked with the IBM Software Labs. At IBM in collaboration with IBM Research he initiated and led the iCollaborate project on people connections that were further demonstrated in the ACM SIGIR Conference. He also lead the IBM campus relations effort for National Institute of Technology , Warangal from where he graduated with Bachelors in Computer Science in 2008 and conducted research on Security and access control techniques .
He has been an IEEE Volunteer since 2004. He is currently a voting member on the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) and a member of the EAB Society Education Outreach Committee (SEOC), EPICS and Pre University Education Coordination Committee (PECC). He lead the expansion of EPICS in India initiating 15 projects in the last 2 years. He is also currently serving as the R10 GINI Coordinator and R10 Membership development coordinator for IEEE Computer Society. He is highly interested in IEEE Pre University efforts and leads the Teacher in Service Program activities in India
2013 GHTC Page 18 October 21, 2013 (Monday) Technical Paper Session B1: Energy II 1:30pm – 3:30pm Riveria & Granada
Session Chair: Nathan Johnson
Paper Time Paper Title Author Names ID
An Integrated Approach to Energy for Damien Frame, Peter Dauenhauer, 1:30pm 72 Development - Case Study of the Malawi Kelvin Tembo, Catherine Currie, Renewable Energy Acceleration Programme Graham Ault
Low Cost Lumen Testing Procedure In Akm Azad, Sabbir Khan, Rafiur 1:45pm 79 Bangladesh Perspective Rahman, Farah Shabnam
Prevention of Power Blackout and Power Theft Amarnath R, Kalaivani N, Priyanka 2:00pm 83 using IED V
Unified Green Village Electricity Project 2:15pm 87 Concept; a Suitable Model for Reliable Ifeanyi Orajaka Renewable Energy Deployment in Nigeria
Solar Park in Gaza City: A Proposed Social 2:30pm 92 Business to bring Renewable Energy Yaser Qudaih Knowledge in the Conflict Region
COSMGrid: Configurable, Off-the-shelf Micro Jonathan Fürst, Nik Gawinowski, 2:45pm 93 Grid Sebastian Büttrich, Philippe Bonnet
Utilizing Microsolar Charging Systems to 3:00pm 118 Naman Trivedi, Thomas Larson Combat the Electricity-Poverty Nexus
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October 21, 2013 (Monday) Technical Paper Session B2: Education II, Disaster I 1:30pm – 3:30pm Castillian
Education II Session Chair: Ed Perkins
Paper Time Paper Title Author Names ID
GreenEduComp: Low Cost Green Computing Mukundhan Srinivasan, Anand B, System for Education in Rural India A Scheme 1:30pm 117 Vineeth Vijayaraghavan, Venus for Sustainable Development Through Antony A. J. Education
Motivating Interest in Electrical Engineering 1:45pm 174 Thomas McKay, Carter Milhous Through Altruism at the Middle School Level
Disaster I Session Chair: Mike Andrews
Paper Time Paper Title Author Names ID
Transforming In-kind Giving in Disaster Md. Islam, John Vande Vate, Alex 2:15pm 163 Response: A Case for On-line Donation Nordenson, John Heggestuen, Registry with Retailers Katherine Dolan
Determine Additional Locations of Tsunami 2:30pm 33 Escape Building in Meuraxa Banda Aceh, Hendri Yuzal Indonesia
Cognitive-Cultural Simulation of Local and 2:45pm 53 Host Government Perceptions In International Daniel Olsher Emergencies
System of People Search under Avalanches in 3:00pm 94 Igor Shirokov Mines
Cognitive/AI Peacekeeping Decision Support 3:15pm 95 Daniel Olsher Models
2013 GHTC Page 20 October 21, 2013 (Monday) Workshop Session B3: IEEE Actionable Data Book – Beyond the Horseless Carriage 1:30pm – 3:30pm Monte Carlo
Abstract: This two-hour workshop will focus on the impact of new technologies on learning, education and training. In particular, a new generation of interactive eBooks will greatly transcend the capabilities of the conventional book. Team members from the IEEE Actionable Data Book Project will each give a short presentation and lead discussion on a different aspect of a rapidly changing technical and pedagogical landscape. Participants in the workshop will be asked to bring their own perspectives to the discussion, to help us all better understand the potential and problems in making this technology globally available. The workshop will assist the project team in planning its activities for 2014.
Project participation is free and open to interested parties: see https://ieee-adb.org
Presenters: Dr. Edilson Arenas, School of Engineering, CQUniversity, Australia Avron Barr, Director, The LETSI Foundation (Learning, Education, and Training Systems Interoperability) Carolyn Dickerson, Teacher and School Technology Administrator Patrick Kane, Internet of Things Evangelist, Cypress Semiconductor Tyde Richards, Chair, IEEE Actionable Data Book Project and IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee
Edilson Arenas has an extensive industry experience in the areas of Software Development, Internet Systems, Multimedia and Educational Technologies.
Avron Barr is the Director of The LETSI Foundation and Vice Chair of the IEEE’s Learning Technology Standards Committee.
Carolyn Dickerson majored in Mathematics and Deaf education and upon graduating, taught and interpreted in the K-12 arena for 12 years before moving on to technology.
Patrick Kane is the director of the Cypress University Alliance Program (CUA) at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation and an affiliate professor in electrical and computer engineering at the University of New Hampshire, Durham.
Tyde Richards is Chair of the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee and the IEEE Actionable Data Book project.
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October 21, 2013 (Monday) Technical Paper Session C1: Energy III 4:00pm – 6:00pm Riveria & Granada
Session Chair: Nathan Johnson
Paper Time Paper Title Author Names ID
Raymond Larsen, Robin Podmore, The CSI Story: IEEE PES Community 4:00pm 144 Michelle Lacourciere, Patrick Ryan, Solutions Initiative Derek Welbourn, Daniel Wessner
Customizable Timing Control Device for Assad Iqbal, Muhammad Shamoon 4:15pm 151 Natural Gas Home Appliances to Save Natural Khan, Sangeen Khan, Sajjad Gas Hussain Shah
A Low Power Control System Optimized for 4:30pm 155 Darick LaSelle Solar Thermal Power Generation
Sustainable Solar Electrification for Rural 4:45pm 159 Michael Wilson, Jude Numfor Communities in Cameroon
Microgrid Test Bench for Small-Scale 5:00pm 161 Michael Rios, Giri Venkataramanan Renewable Microsources
The Economic Challenge of Rural 5:15pm 164 Electrification: Community Solutions Initiative Seth Myers in Africa
5:30pm 166 South Sudan Rural Electrification Project Ronald Moulton, Mou Riiny
2013 GHTC Page 22 October 21, 2013 (Monday) Technical Paper Session C2: Disaster II 4:00pm – 6:00pm Castillian
Session Chair: Mike Andrews
Paper Time Paper Title Author Names ID
Paul Gardner-Stephen, Romana The Serval Mesh: A Platform for Resilient Challans, Jeremy Lakeman, Communications in Disaster & Crisis 4:00pm Andrew Bettison, Dione Gardner- (Invited Paper from Serval Project , Humanity Stephen, Matthew Lloyd United) (Serval Project Inc)
Family Information Sharing System based on a 4:15pm 99 Yuka Hasegawa, Masato Oguchi Judgment of Emergency
Radio Signal-based Measurements for Jane Louie Zamora, Shigeru 4:30pm 102 Localized Heavy Rain Detection using Kashihara, Suguru Yamaguchi Smartphones
WSN-SA: Design Foundations for Situational Agnelo Silva, Mingyan Liu, Mahta 4:45pm 126 Awareness Systems Based on Sensor Networks Moghaddam
5:00pm CrowdHelp: a Crowdsourcing Application for 154 Liliya Besaleva, Alfred Weaver Online Improving Disaster Management
Experimental Analysis of Effects of Installation 5:15pm Moein Jazayeri, Sener Uysal, Kian 59 Alignment and Solar Insolation on Power Online Jazayeri Generation by Solar Panels
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October 21, 2013 (Monday) Student Poster and Paper Contests 4:00pm – 6:00pm Monte Carlo
Session Chair: Ramesh Nair
Time ID Paper or Poster Title Contestants
Paper Detection of Knee Hyper Extension using 4:00pm Sri Gowtham Thakku #1 Wearable Inertial Sensors
Paper Heal-Well: Health and Wellness Monitoring 4:15pm Vivek Jayakrishnan #2 gadget for Home Bound Elders
Paper 4:30pm Mobile Controlled Farm Management Aider Deepak Venkateswaran #3
Vishnu Padmanabhan Poster Cost Effective Vegetable Chiller for Rural 4:45pm (Amrita University, Coimbatore, #1 Small Farmers India)
Anum Talpur Poster A Hybrid approach for reliable data 5:00pm (Mehran University, Punjab, #2 transportation in Intra WBAN's Pakistan)
Dmitry Klissch Poster 5:15pm Exo Support Leg (Algonquin College, Ottawa, #3 Canada)
Poster Ceeyus Vareed 5:30pm E-Space #4 (IES College, Kerala, India)
Ajithesh Gupta Poster 5:45pm Robotic Arm (Amrita School of Engg, Kerala, #5 India)
2013 GHTC Page 24 October 21, 2013 (Monday) Dinner Reception 6:30pm – 9:30pm Mediterranean Center – Riveria & Granada
Keynote #1: Preparing Students for Innovative, Game Changing, Purposeful Careers James D. Plummer, Dean of Engineering, Stanford University
Abstract: Undergraduate students today are seeking careers that will “change the world”. They care about the world’s big problems – energy, the environment, human health and making life better for all of the world’s people. Engineers are part of the solution to these problems because they bring a set of technical skills that can provide technical solutions. But none of these major problems will be solved by technology alone. We need to provide for these students, in addition to technical skills, skills in innovation, entrepreneurship, and problem solving when problems are ill-defined or when there is no obvious solution. Students also need to acquire skills in working in interdisciplinary teams and they need strong leadership skills to drive progress on big problems. Many engineering schools are working to provide the broader education that these skills imply, not just for engineering students but for undergraduates in all majors. This talk will focus on how we can educate the next generation of young people who will be prepared to tackle the world’s biggest problems.
Jim Plummer is Dean of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Prior to becoming Dean, he was the chair of the EE department at Stanford. He received his BSEE degree from UCLA and MS and Ph.D. degrees in EE from Stanford.
Dr. Plummer is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the IEEE. He has received a number of awards for his research including, the 1991 Gordon Moore Medal for Solid State Science and Technology from the Electrochemical