Thursday, June 25, 2009

IEEE awards prizes for tech that benefits humanity

Wednesday in Los Angeles: IEEE (formerly the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers acronym) held its first IEEE Presidents' Change the World Competition prize-giving ceremony.

In the world of professional technical society awarded to students from all over the world to develop unique solutions to real problems associated with the use of technology, science, computing, and management in the public interest and / or humanity in general. "

IEEE aspirant Humanitarian Award will be awarded $ 10,000 for Stanford students to develop so-called NanoLab, "PDA diagnostic laboratories capable of multiplex quantitative detection of protein, which is very simple to use, wash without assay, but would be particularly useful to developing countries.

A group of 19 students from B.V. Bhoomaraddi College of Engineering and Technology in India receives $ 5000 Award for the development of electronic games, toys and technology, which aims to promote physical and mentally disabled children, and encourage implementation.

A bicycle-Powered grain fans, but not developing countries have access to electric power station, has won five students from Rowan University in New Jersey up to $ 2500 prize.

Small prizes were awarded for other projects, including the participation of a number of robots in agriculture related to the distribution of electricity in rural areas and small communities, as well as electronic health preferred.

Each drop in the Technical Museum in San Jose, California, grants for technological innovation that benefits humanity.

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