[Applause]
okay hello guys so as dr. say said my
name is Saad Ronnie and before I begin
with my presentation I want to talk to
you guys a little bit about my
background so both my parents were born
and raised in Karachi Pakistan and they
moved here shortly after they were
married I was born here in Houston Texas
but because I’m a first generation child
I’ve grown very close and very
knowledgeable about the culture and how
Pakistan is and in fact each year since
I was born
I visited Pakistan and to date I spent a
combined total of almost three years
within Pakistan so because of this this
is a very unique opportunity for me
because I’m able to see how completely
different society lives and functions
and I’m able to see the challenges that
they face that people here would not
have even imagined are still being faced
by people around the world one challenge
over there that I noticed was the air
quality so personally I have asthma and
when I’m in the u.s. I don’t really have
an issue with the air quality here I
don’t really have an issue with
breathing but when I do go to Pakistan
the second I step off that plane the air
just hits me my lungs have to go into
overdrive and in order to produce the
safe amount of oxygen that they would if
they were here and I find it after use
my inhalers on a regular basis when I’m
over there and this air quality issue is
because of this scene right here now the
air may seem fine and the grass may seem
green but it’s actually the traffic
that’s the major issue right there so if
we take a closer look at this traffic
this is actually not a busy time for
traffic in Pakistan in fact this is what
some may call a good flow of traffic
even though to us it seems very hectic
and chaotic this is nowhere near what
Russia would looks like over there but
if we take a closer look at this picture
the newest car that I can seem to find
in this picture is a Toyota Corolla from
the early 2000s and let’s take another
take let’s take a look at another
picture this picture is also normal
traffic and it seems that the newest car
in this picture as well is an older
sedan that maybe from the early 2000s
now why is this an issue all of these
cars share one thing and that is a
combustion engine now we all know that
combustion engines are
what make cars cars they’re what make
them go and the way they work is
actually the issue so gas enters the
chamber at the top of the combustion
engine and then a small combustion have
been small explosion which pushes the
piston thus rotating the gears and
rotating the wheels on the car now a
byproduct of this combustion is back
carbon and particulate matter this is
unprocessed gasoline that is given off
into the environment and is often seen
as the black smoke that comes out of
your cars whenever they’re not
functioning properly however even when
there’s no smoke coming out of your car
your car is still constantly giving off
black carbon particulate matter
emissions now when why is this an issue
when it’s in the air the particles get
suspended and they absorb sunlight thus
increasing air temperatures and then due
to the global wind patterns the
particles gravitate to the poles and
they settle on the ice caps where they
continue to absorb heat and melt the ice
caps because they’re raising surface
temperatures not only that they’re also
held side effects asthma for one
bronchitis but they’re also very severe
side effects that we do not see here in
the first world that are being faced by
millions in the third world and all of
these issues can lead to respiratory
illness pulmonary disease pulmonary
tuberculosis infant mortality and low
birth rates and it’s becoming a wider
and wider spread issue within the third
world within those countries in fact in
India over half a million people die
each year because of air pollution
related issues well what are the
differences in the standards well if we
look at the World Health Organization
they said 10 micrograms per cubic
centimeter to be a good level for
carbon particulate matter presence
within any environment Washington DC has
12 micrograms per cubic centimeter but
if we look at a city like Beijing they
have 81 grams for micrograms per cubic
centimeter and then looking at New Delhi
in India they have 128 micrograms per
cubic centimeter that is almost 10 times
what we see here in Washington DC and
our cities in the US so what are we
doing about what are the automobile
manufacturers doing about this well ever
since the automobile was created really
manufacturers have been trying to create
more hybrid engines these are engines
that use less gasoline in order to
produce a bigger combustion and thus
less by-product of the gasoline and
combustion process and then in recent
years we’ve seen the introduction of
electric vehicles these are vehicles
from Tesla Ford BMW that obviously
produce zero emissions given the fact
that they’re all electric let’s look at
this picture again how many new cars do
you see that may contain a hybrid engine
how many Tesla’s are in this picture how
many new BMW electric vehicles or Toyota
electric vehicles are on the speaker
picture zero and that’s how the
conditions are and that’s how they will
remain within these total countries for
a long time so where’s the third world
application of this innovation where is
the third world application of what the
automobile fact manufacturers are doing
within the industry today these people
in the third will are not even able to
think about affording those new cars
take Pakistan for example the average
yearly income of a Pakistani citizen is
one thousand five hundred thirteen
dollars people here make more in two
weeks than what some people make in
Pakistan in an entire year so that is
why we must ask ourselves how is this
research failing to help these people
how is this research failing to help all
the people out there in the world and so
we’ve reached a point where innovation
is not as effective as it was before
innovation is not helping people as
widespread as it used to be what kind of
innovation is going on for us all the
innovation is benefiting the first world
countries but is it benefiting third
world countries I took on this issue and
I wanted to see what the solutions to
this specific problem were so I asked
myself how can carbon particulate
filters be used to alleviate the effects
of black carbon this is where I selected
for my senior thesis project and I
decided try and design a filter that
could be hooked onto any exhaust pipe
and collect the particulate matter
before it’s given and put into the
atmosphere so this be
my first two designs which I’ve
evaluated they use filters as you find
in the coffee filters of your everyday
appliance and then I also considered a
wire mesh filter however I found that
that would be too expensive for my
purposes and after evaluating all the
filters I found that this filter would
be the most effective in reaching our
goal so this filter maximizes on surface
area and it also maximizes on the amount
of particulate matter that’s collected
because it uses a filter mesh median of
0.2 micrometer pore size and that means
that all of the micro particles that are
between 0.2 micrometers and 2.5
micrometers are collected so let’s step
back and think about what I just did
with absolutely zero resources I was
able to conduct research that may help
billions of people in the world and this
is because I get my innovation to help
people that are not directly around me
but in the third world and in other
areas so this is truly where we have to
gear our innovation this is where the
issues becoming to be more evident
because our innovation is simply
innovating for the future we’re trying
to push forward and reach this utopian
society that we all wish to see I mean
my fridge can access Twitter why does my
fridge need to access Twitter there’s AB
there’s so many different innovations
that are trying to increase and people
are trying to push further and further
into the future when we’re leaving our
friends in the third-world country
country’s behind we’re leaving all of
them in the dust the technology gap is
increasing by the day and people are
failing to realize this people are
failing to adjust this large companies
are failing to address this if a large
company such as Tesla Ford or Toyota
were to allocate even a fraction of
their resources to create a filter like
I did and they’d produced it and did
deploy to move third world so many
different aspects so many different
challenges that are faced by the third
world would be reduced so this is where
I ask you guys is the innovation that we
see today effective is the innovation
that’s happening is it only benefiting
us or is it benefiting
the everyone in the world although there
may be some innovation that’s needed
that we cannot use but third-world
countries that use that innovation is
necessary before we can continue to
reach a level where the entire world is
at the same point and we can continue to
further that utopian society that we all
wish to see it is now we need to present
we need to innovate for the present and
not for the future it is important to
make sure that everyone on earth is at
the same place before and we can
continue furthering this is where the
choice is yours the choice is what
innovation you support what innovation
you seek from companies what kind of
products you want to see would you like
to see something that can maybe ease
your life a little bit more which I
could see something that maybe saves
thousands of lives for others so this is
where I charge you guys employ
innovation that can help those that are
more need because it is that kind of
innovation that’s necessary in order to
push us all forward into the future
thank you [Applause]
okay hello guys so as dr. say said my
name is Saad Ronnie and before I begin
with my presentation I want to talk to
you guys a little bit about my
background so both my parents were born
and raised in Karachi Pakistan and they
moved here shortly after they were
married I was born here in Houston Texas
but because I’m a first generation child
I’ve grown very close and very
knowledgeable about the culture and how
Pakistan is and in fact each year since
I was born
I visited Pakistan and to date I spent a
combined total of almost three years
within Pakistan so because of this this
is a very unique opportunity for me
because I’m able to see how completely
different society lives and functions
and I’m able to see the challenges that
they face that people here would not
have even imagined are still being faced
by people around the world one challenge
over there that I noticed was the air
quality so personally I have asthma and
when I’m in the u.s. I don’t really have
an issue with the air quality here I
don’t really have an issue with
breathing but when I do go to Pakistan
the second I step off that plane the air
just hits me my lungs have to go into
overdrive and in order to produce the
safe amount of oxygen that they would if
they were here and I find it after use
my inhalers on a regular basis when I’m
over there and this air quality issue is
because of this scene right here now the
air may seem fine and the grass may seem
green but it’s actually the traffic
that’s the major issue right there so if
we take a closer look at this traffic
this is actually not a busy time for
traffic in Pakistan in fact this is what
some may call a good flow of traffic
even though to us it seems very hectic
and chaotic this is nowhere near what
Russia would looks like over there but
if we take a closer look at this picture
the newest car that I can seem to find
in this picture is a Toyota Corolla from
the early 2000s and let’s take another
take let’s take a look at another
picture this picture is also normal
traffic and it seems that the newest car
in this picture as well is an older
sedan that maybe from the early 2000s
now why is this an issue all of these
cars share one thing and that is a
combustion engine now we all know that
combustion engines are
what make cars cars they’re what make
them go and the way they work is
actually the issue so gas enters the
chamber at the top of the combustion
engine and then a small combustion have
been small explosion which pushes the
piston thus rotating the gears and
rotating the wheels on the car now a
byproduct of this combustion is back
carbon and particulate matter this is
unprocessed gasoline that is given off
into the environment and is often seen
as the black smoke that comes out of
your cars whenever they’re not
functioning properly however even when
there’s no smoke coming out of your car
your car is still constantly giving off
black carbon particulate matter
emissions now when why is this an issue
when it’s in the air the particles get
suspended and they absorb sunlight thus
increasing air temperatures and then due
to the global wind patterns the
particles gravitate to the poles and
they settle on the ice caps where they
continue to absorb heat and melt the ice
caps because they’re raising surface
temperatures not only that they’re also
held side effects asthma for one
bronchitis but they’re also very severe
side effects that we do not see here in
the first world that are being faced by
millions in the third world and all of
these issues can lead to respiratory
illness pulmonary disease pulmonary
tuberculosis infant mortality and low
birth rates and it’s becoming a wider
and wider spread issue within the third
world within those countries in fact in
India over half a million people die
each year because of air pollution
related issues well what are the
differences in the standards well if we
look at the World Health Organization
they said 10 micrograms per cubic
centimeter to be a good level for
carbon particulate matter presence
within any environment Washington DC has
12 micrograms per cubic centimeter but
if we look at a city like Beijing they
have 81 grams for micrograms per cubic
centimeter and then looking at New Delhi
in India they have 128 micrograms per
cubic centimeter that is almost 10 times
what we see here in Washington DC and
our cities in the US so what are we
doing about what are the automobile
manufacturers doing about this well ever
since the automobile was created really
manufacturers have been trying to create
more hybrid engines these are engines
that use less gasoline in order to
produce a bigger combustion and thus
less by-product of the gasoline and
combustion process and then in recent
years we’ve seen the introduction of
electric vehicles these are vehicles
from Tesla Ford BMW that obviously
produce zero emissions given the fact
that they’re all electric let’s look at
this picture again how many new cars do
you see that may contain a hybrid engine
how many Tesla’s are in this picture how
many new BMW electric vehicles or Toyota
electric vehicles are on the speaker
picture zero and that’s how the
conditions are and that’s how they will
remain within these total countries for
a long time so where’s the third world
application of this innovation where is
the third world application of what the
automobile fact manufacturers are doing
within the industry today these people
in the third will are not even able to
think about affording those new cars
take Pakistan for example the average
yearly income of a Pakistani citizen is
one thousand five hundred thirteen
dollars people here make more in two
weeks than what some people make in
Pakistan in an entire year so that is
why we must ask ourselves how is this
research failing to help these people
how is this research failing to help all
the people out there in the world and so
we’ve reached a point where innovation
is not as effective as it was before
innovation is not helping people as
widespread as it used to be what kind of
innovation is going on for us all the
innovation is benefiting the first world
countries but is it benefiting third
world countries I took on this issue and
I wanted to see what the solutions to
this specific problem were so I asked
myself how can carbon particulate
filters be used to alleviate the effects
of black carbon this is where I selected
for my senior thesis project and I
decided try and design a filter that
could be hooked onto any exhaust pipe
and collect the particulate matter
before it’s given and put into the
atmosphere so this be
my first two designs which I’ve
evaluated they use filters as you find
in the coffee filters of your everyday
appliance and then I also considered a
wire mesh filter however I found that
that would be too expensive for my
purposes and after evaluating all the
filters I found that this filter would
be the most effective in reaching our
goal so this filter maximizes on surface
area and it also maximizes on the amount
of particulate matter that’s collected
because it uses a filter mesh median of
0.2 micrometer pore size and that means
that all of the micro particles that are
between 0.2 micrometers and 2.5
micrometers are collected so let’s step
back and think about what I just did
with absolutely zero resources I was
able to conduct research that may help
billions of people in the world and this
is because I get my innovation to help
people that are not directly around me
but in the third world and in other
areas so this is truly where we have to
gear our innovation this is where the
issues becoming to be more evident
because our innovation is simply
innovating for the future we’re trying
to push forward and reach this utopian
society that we all wish to see I mean
my fridge can access Twitter why does my
fridge need to access Twitter there’s AB
there’s so many different innovations
that are trying to increase and people
are trying to push further and further
into the future when we’re leaving our
friends in the third-world country
country’s behind we’re leaving all of
them in the dust the technology gap is
increasing by the day and people are
failing to realize this people are
failing to adjust this large companies
are failing to address this if a large
company such as Tesla Ford or Toyota
were to allocate even a fraction of
their resources to create a filter like
I did and they’d produced it and did
deploy to move third world so many
different aspects so many different
challenges that are faced by the third
world would be reduced so this is where
I ask you guys is the innovation that we
see today effective is the innovation
that’s happening is it only benefiting
us or is it benefiting
the everyone in the world although there
may be some innovation that’s needed
that we cannot use but third-world
countries that use that innovation is
necessary before we can continue to
reach a level where the entire world is
at the same point and we can continue to
further that utopian society that we all
wish to see it is now we need to present
we need to innovate for the present and
not for the future it is important to
make sure that everyone on earth is at
the same place before and we can
continue furthering this is where the
choice is yours the choice is what
innovation you support what innovation
you seek from companies what kind of
products you want to see would you like
to see something that can maybe ease
your life a little bit more which I
could see something that maybe saves
thousands of lives for others so this is
where I charge you guys employ
innovation that can help those that are
more need because it is that kind of
innovation that’s necessary in order to
push us all forward into the future
thank you [Applause]
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