Jay Dhariwal
Associate Professor, Department of Design, IIT Delhihi there!
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Hi there!
I love to teach courses along the lines of Design and Environment, Design for Environmental Change, Carbon Footprinting and the like. Very recently, we have set up a Sustainable Behaviours Group within our department and Prof Jyoti Kumar and myself also offered a course on Sustainable Behaviours and Innovation where the students came up with innovative ideas on helping IIT Delhi campus move in the direction of a Net Zero Carbon, Water and Waste campus.
I also teach courses in integrated functional prototyping (involving mechatronics, IoT and data science) in fun ways :). I also happen to be the Faculty incharge of the IIT Delhi Makerspace which helps the students to translate their creative ideas into functional prototypes.
Research and practice wise, our group has interests working in the area of "Design for environmental health and wellness ". We have collaborations with faculty within our institute and beyond in the areas of engineering, medicine and sciences. We are presently working on understanding the nexus between air quality (outdoors and indoors), thermal discomfort due to heat stress (outdoors and indoors) and energy sustainability. The present projects that the group is working on are about developing low cost sensor networks for air pollution monitoring, Urban Heat Island Effect assessment using sensors and remote sensing, spatio-temporal understanding of indoor air quality, estimating indoor environment quality in hospitals and prisons, learnings from the communities living a low carbon lifestyle and R&D of medical devices in airway management.
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