Beyond First/Last Mile Active Transportation - BikeShare@UH

Bike sharing is a new green transportation solution that has been developed and adopted at various cities around the world. In this paper, we present the process and results of the design and prototypes that a group of undergraduate students developed for a BikeShare@UH program during Summer 2017. After presenting the detailed results of four project teams focusing on customer discovery, bike share station (BSS) location identification, cloud-based mobile computing platform for user engagement and bike share program operation and management, smart lock, and alternative energy source based on PV panel. With the phase one implementation at the University planned in Spring 2018, we anticipate gathering real time data and feedback to improve the system.Cockrell School of Engineerin

Dietary and nutritional change in India: implications for strategies, policies, and interventions

Despite the global transition to overnutrition, stunting affected approximately 159 million children worldwide in 2014, while an estimated 50 million children were wasted. India is an important front in the fight against malnutrition and is grappling with the coexistence of undernutrition, overnutrition, and micronutrient deficiencies. This report summarizes discussions on trends in malnutrition in India, its evolution in the context of economic growth, intrahousehold aspects, infant and young child feeding practices, women's status, maternal nutrition, and nutrition policymaking. The discussion focuses on a review of trends in malnutrition and dietary intakes in India in the context of economic change over the past four decades, identification of household dynamics affecting food choices and their consequences for family nutritional status in India, and effective malnutrition prevention and treatment interventions and programs in India and associated policy challenges

Scaling-up interventions to improve infant and young child feeding in India: What will it take?

We assessed India's readiness to deliver infant and young child feeding (IYCF) interventions by examining elements related to policy, implementation, financing, and evidence. We based our analysis on review of (a) nutrition policy guidance and program platforms, (b) published literature on interventions to improve IYCF in India, and (c) IYCF program models implemented between 2007 and 2012. We find that Indian policies are well aligned with global technical guidance on counselling interventions. However, guidelines for complementary food supplements (CFS) need to be reexamined. Two national programs with the operational infrastructure to deliver IYCF interventions offer great potential for scale, but more operational guidance, capacity, and monitoring are needed to actively support delivery of IYCF counselling at scale by available frontline workers. Many IYCF implementation efforts to date have experimented with approaches to improve breastfeeding and initiation of complementary feeding but not with improving diet diversity or the quality of food supplements. Financing is currently inadequate to deliver CFS at scale, and governance issues affect the quality and reach of CFS. Available evidence from Indian studies supports the use of counselling strategies to improve breastfeeding practices and initiation of complementary feeding, but limited evidence exists on improving full spectrum of IYCF practices and the impact and operational aspects of CFS in India. We conclude that India is well positioned to support the full spectrum of IYCF using existing policies and delivery platforms, but capacity, financing, and evidence gaps on critical areas of programming can limit impact at scale

SETS Location Identification and Solar Power Regarding Bicycle Share Stations at UH Campus

"Bicycle Share at UH" focuses on creating and testing innovative integrated systems, and processes that will enable access to transmit and improve transit mobility on a unique urban campus. Houston is the 4th largest city in the United States and its population is expected to grow 7 million in 2015 to 10 million in 2040. About 70% of the residents in the area have poor access to public transit. The solar power group was in charge of identifying key problems revolving around the placement of bicycle share stations around UH campus. An important issue regarding students, is that they are not able to make it to their classes on time. This problem is intensified by moving most economy parking to the Energy Reserach Park lots. To alleviate this issue we proposed to help find the best loations for bike placement so that students can move quickly and safely through our campus. In order to maintain these remote locations on campus we initiated the development and implementation of an embedded solar panel system. The end goal was to implement a theoretical bike station solution designed for Coogs by Coogs.Engineering Technology, Department ofHonors Colleg

SETS Student Discovery and Analysis Regarding Bicycle Sharing Stations at UH Campus

"Bicycle Share @ UH" focuses on creating and testing innovative and integrated system and process that will enable access to transmit and improve transit mobility on an unique urban campus. Customer Discover And Data Trend Analyitics; Subgroups of a Bigger Group System. - 70% of the residents in the area have poor access to the public transit - Houston is the 4th-largest city in the USA > projected to grow from 7 mission in 2015 to 10 mission in 2040 - STATED BY STUDENTS - transportation is an issue on our campus > Parking > Time issues > Walking to classes from accross campus - SURVEY PLATFORM - Google forms - 3 Iterations - DURATION OF SURVEY: August 1st - August 10th - FOUR TYPE OF SURVEY QUESTIONS 1. Basic Data 2. Desire to Utilize the Bicycle Share 3. Location Preference 4. Payment PreferenceEngineering Technology, Department ofHonors Colleg