Space and Agriculture Robotics – Rokit

Space and Agriculture Robotics – Rokit

In Colombia, 59% of the countryside population works in agriculture but recently, there have been more products imported than exported. This negative trade balance can be tied to the traditional ways they perform their practices, instead of utilizing technology and...
Design and development of a Low-Cost Stair Lift

Design and development of a Low-Cost Stair Lift

Individuals with locomotive disabilities like arthritis, post-polio syndrome, and, vascular disease are incapable of climbing the stairs on their own so stairlifts are often used to carry them. Existing stairlifts are prohibitively expensive ($2000-$6000). To fill...
Light Trap Systems for Lepidopteran Pest Monitoring

Light Trap Systems for Lepidopteran Pest Monitoring

A  multi-disciplinary team from North Carolina State University is creating a new design for Light Trap Systems for Lepidopteran Pest Monitoring that addresses two issues related to inconsistent trapping and poor trap placement that reduce exposure to moths. Light...
Generating Environmentally Friendly Power while Reducing Ill-health

Generating Environmentally Friendly Power while Reducing Ill-health

This project involves engineering students and IEEE Volunteers coming together to utilize their engineering to design and fabricate a bicycle pedal power generator which in turn shall be piloted in one community. The purpose of the generator is to reduce ill health...
ISort – Sort and Shredding Machine to change Gen Z

ISort – Sort and Shredding Machine to change Gen Z

There are over 400 MT of plastic waste generated across Sri Lanka every day, according to the Ministry of Environment. The normal method of reducing, recycling, and reusing, is not helping as much as it should, which is why there must be another way that is easily...