b'12 Partner News Spring 2022AcademicLondon Met student presents final year project at two conferencesLondon Metropolitan Universityrunner-up for Best Poster! Also, being aHer article based on her project was peer undergraduate student Monika Rabkapart of this conference immensely helpedreviewed and selected at the international presented her final year project at twome prepare myself for my first internationalconference. This shows the high quality and conferences.conference at WORLDS4 and I would like tostandard of her work. This is an incredible thank the Research and Postgraduate Officeachievement for an undergraduate student. Rabka, a BEng computer systemsfor the great opportunity. Im pleased Monika is now engaged with engineering student, presented her projectresearch work related to air pollution both at the London Mets Student andRabkas project, entitled Real-timemonitoring.Staff Research Conference and the WorldAutonomous Horticulture Monitoring Conference on Smart Trends in Systems,System, focuses on the idea of a smart Security and Sustainability (WORLDS4)greenhouse. 2021.Considering climate change and the Given that the Student and Staffincreasing demand for food as the global Research Conference is mainly intendedpopulation grows, her goal was to design for postgraduate and research students, Ia prototype of a real-time, low-power and felt very privileged that my undergraduateself-sufficient monitoring system, which was work was chosen to be included. I thinksuccessfully tested in a small greenhouse. its great that London Met allows students to showcase our hard work and gives us aMonikas original real-time autonomous chance at networking, Rabka says.horticulture monitoring system works beautifully, says Professor Bal Virdee, The experience of attending theDirector of Centre of Communications conference, despite it being virtual, wasTechnology in the School of Computing and fantastic, and I even ended up being theDigital Media.From classroom to clientImperial Colleges collaboration with IBMThe result was the successful launch ofThe purpose of Imperials third-year group Sentinel, which took IBMs Watson AIprojects is to provide the students with a system into space for the first time.first taste of industrial collaboration. Fast forward to the present and theA range of organisations, start-ups, NGOs collaboration has gone from strength toand university spin offs propose real-life strength. The latest project producedprojects for students to develop over eight Venice of Secrets, a playful online andweeks. AI-based learning platform that puts the student into a virtual scenario to practiseThey have to interact with their client as The collaboration between Imperialand learn a language.consultants, working to deliver a product Colleges Electrical and Electronicthat meets customer requirements, on Engineering Department and IBM started inThe student group, hailing from the UK, Italy,time and within budget. The final resulting 2015, when IBMs UK University ProgramsHong Kong, Trinidad and Tobago, drew onprototypes are demonstrated to an expert Lead, John McNamara, proposed one oftheir experiences in learning languages andpanel, including their industrial supervisor, the third-year group projects for Imperialsconcluded that immersion is best.during a hackbooth event. MEng students.They wanted to offer an affordable andBesides boosting their technical skills, The challenge was for students to design,sustainable solution that combines AI withstudents develop their problem-develop and test a space probe that couldscience-based teaching methodology to engagesolving, project, budget management, look for signs of danger and report back anylearners and bring the benefits of internationalcommunication and teamwork skills. Most issues it saw. But the best feature would bestudy to devices everywhere, whileimportantly, they have the opportunity to its ability to respond to messages sent viashrinking the carbon footprint and localisedwork on an idea they are really passionate Twitter.damage caused by international travel. about.'