b'Member News November 2019 19The future of engineeringJudges pick best solutionsThe winning teamsGreenpeace to plastic problems Challenge:Team NanoMalaysiaOur Global Challenge judging panelsI van Ling Pauline Phoonhave chosen their winning solutions for Tan Chin Jootackling plastic pollution in our oceans. Ong Chong CheenGreenSeas Challenge:Team BaywatchersHelena LiveseyGeorge Fulton Alexander MorganJonathon WittyThe successful teams will receive their awards and share their solutions at our Innovation Awards TeamNano Malaysias PICAS Blocks Team Baywatchers robot KRABB-E Ceremony in November.A food-inspired solution A cigarette-consuming robot The standard of the finalists was impressively high across TeamNano Malaysia, a group of studentsTeam Baywatchers, young engineers onboth competitions and we from universities across Malaysia, tookthe United Kingdom Energy Authorityspent a long time deliberating before finally selecting first place in our Greenpeace Challenge(UKEA) graduate scheme, triumphedour winners, says Gwilym with their solution for replacing plasticin the GreenSeas Challenge with theirRowbottom, past Global packaging in UK supermarkets.remotely controlled, all-terrain machine forChallenge winner and judge picking up cigarette butts left on beaches.on this years panels. As a Their PICAS (Packaging in Carrageenan andprevious winner of the IET Starch) Block is a way of binding together driedUnknown to many, cigarette butts can releaseGlobal Challenge I hope that loose products such as pasta, beans and grains,thousands of tiny cellulose acetate fibres, alongthe winning teams will get as removing the need for plastic packaging. Inspiredwith hundred of toxic chemicals, into our oceans. much out of it as we did. The by tempeh, the traditional Indonesian beancake,winners can expect fantastic the dried products are bound by natural polymersKRABB-E, the teams aptly named robot thatsupport from the IET including (carrageenan and starch) and sold in blocks.looks like a giant crab, collects and sorts litter inthe opportunity to network three stages, ensuring minimal sifting and non- with other brilliant engineers Another team, Team Leeds, received a Judgeslitter collection. Its design, along with the teamsat the Innovation Awards, Commendation for their silicon-based containerscampaign to raise awareness of plastic pollutionand advice and support on that can be returned to supermarkets foramong beachgoers, won over our judging panel. progressing their ideas. industrial cleaning and reuse. The winners can expect fantastic support from the IET.Further information on our Global Challenge is available at: theiet.org/global-challenge.Join us at the IET Innovation Awards on 13 November at The Brewery, London by booking your place at: ietinnovationawards.org'