Notable Sponsored and Supervised ProjectsThis page lists some ongoing and completed projects that I have done or supervised. Sponsored projects were done in collaboration with various funding agencies and organizations. Masters and Bachelors projects have been done by students under my supervision. This page lists only a couple of good projects. Please get in touch if you want to know more about these projects or are interested in taking any of them forward.
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Design of a Live Fish Transportation Device for Fingerlings
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Funding agency: IIT Guwahati Technology Innovation and Development Foundation
Investigators: Pankaj Upadhyay, Shiv Kumar Verma (Department of Design, Tezpur University), Ankit Basak
Start Date: August 29, 2023, Duration: 2 years,
Project brief: Transporting live fish is crucial for aquaculture, affecting quality and profitability. Fingerling transportation is challenging, labor-intensive, and inefficient, leading to high mortality rates and reduced quality. Aeration is vital due to limited water volume, as fish's high metabolic rate and fecal waste deplete oxygen. Manual aeration and inadequate filtration increase ammonia levels, harming fish health. This inefficient method reduces profitability, highlighting the need for a better solution. The project aims to design a live fish transportation unit for fingerlings from a user-centric perspective to integrate with existing systems and provide an efficient, reliable solution.
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Design of a vegetable vending station
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Sponsoring Agency: Guwahati Municipal Corporation
Project Investigators: Pankaj Upadhyay, Supradip Das
The Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) wanted to transform certain city locations into modern and hygienic marketplaces. GMC had the vision to construct unique stations for fruit and vegetable vendors who did not own a permanent shop. Most vendors were from the poorer sections of society with low daily incomes. These vending stations could be rented at nominal costs to the vendors and maintained by the administration. The design process was completed in two months, from inception to prototype development and delivery. A two-member team designed the solution in collaboration with representatives from GMC, and an MSME handled the prototype development.Project Brief
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Design of Ginger & Turmeric Washing Machine
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Sponsoring Agency: Guwahati Municipal Corporation
Project Investigators: Pankaj Upadhyay, Sharmistha Banerjee, Sachin Kore
The design team wanted to intervene in scale-appropriate agricultural machinery for Northeast India in this project. The mainstream agricultural industry has long neglected this machinery segment, especially in Northeast India. Scale-appropriate agricultural machinery can bring economies of scale into the backyards of the region’s small farmers and improve their income. Also, having appropriate machines that the farmers can use and maintain would better the quality of their products and encourage further technology adoption. The design team envisioned a sustainable and affordable solution that the farmer found easy to operate and maintain.
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Design of a Low-cost Bicycle Trolley for Washermen
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Sponsoring Agency: Procter and Gamble (P&G) Research, Brussels
Project Investigators: Pankaj Upadhyay, Keyur Sorathia
The goal of this project was formulated as ‘to understand the needs and requirements of the Dhobi community in Guwahati, Assam and design appropriate solutions to help them in their work’. It was a collaborative project undertaken jointly by Procter and Gamble (P&G) Research, Brussels and Department of Design (DoD), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG). The vision was to design novel solutions of mutual interest to P&G and DoD. The project was done in two parts; in the first part, a team of researchers examined the work practices and daily lives of the Dhobi community in Guwahati. With this, several design directions were identified. Some of these directions were explored and collaboratively shortlisted by the project stakeholders. In the next part of the project, the product was designed, developed and evaluated.
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Ice Heal: Hot & Cold Therapy Device for Sports Injuries
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Designed By Achyut Shanbhag
Recognition: Winner of Lexus Design Award
Approximately 3 million people encounter Sports Injuries every year In India. Half of these sports injury episodes result in treatment at a doctor’s office or other health clinics without an emergency department visit or hospitalization. This project focused on the speedy recovery of an athlete against the frequent common injuries such as bruises, strains, sprains, tears, muscle pulls, hamstring, knee, ankle and lower back pain. Heat and cold application therapy is often used for exercise therapy. A device was designed that uses the thermoelectric effect to generate hot-cold cycles to provide relief and mitigate the effect of sports-related injuries. The device was evaluated with physiotherapists and sportsmen for its form function and usability. The product concept won the coveted Lexus Design Award for the student category in 2020.
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Exploration of Composite Materials Using Waste Tea Leaves
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Designed By Achyut Shanbhag
Recognition: Winner of IF design Talent Award 2022
Cha, is a sustainable bio-degradable composite developed for reusing
biodegradable waste to convert it into an eco-friendly material for daily use applications. We combined the advantages of Tea leaves, Polylactic acid and Glycerin to give efficient ingredients and recipe to produce a strong bioplastic. We tested the material for its mechanical, chemical and thermal properties. The test results gave us the properties and limitations of the material cha. We compression molded the material to check its ability for production and developed several simple products to demonstrate its capability. The material has the subtle smell of tea that adds value to the design. Inspired by nature, Cha is designed to have an impact on waste consumption through materials. The project won the 2022 IF design talent award. |
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Design of Point of Care Testing Device for Public Healthcare Centers
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Designed by Ankit Chaudhury
Funded By: Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt. of India
Recognition: Granted Patent (No. 507439)
Public Healthcare Centres (PHCs) are small scale setups that provide healthcare access to the rural and urban populations across India at minimal costs. Point of Care Testing (PoCT) Devices are a class of medical equipment that provides an alternative to centralized laboratory testing and are typically accessible, portable, and user-friendly. In this collaborative project, an interdisciplinary design team from the Department of Design and Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati, aimed to design PoCT devices for semi-urban and rural MCs in India. State of the art technology using paper-based biomarker sensors was developed by the Centre for Nanotechnology IIT Guwahati, which the design team used for creating modular PoCT diagnostic devices.
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