Integrated Human Practice & Gold

"Human Practices is the study of how your work affects the world, and how the world affects your work." — Peter Carr, Director of Judging.

According to the definition of Human Practice from iGEM, each team should interact with the whole society, to figure out what the world lacks and to dedicate our ability to the needs. In our team, the concern of environment and health are the ultimate targets. The crisis triggered by Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs) has not only be forgotten gradually by us after the Vietnam War since the contaminated regions are narrowed in certain places, few and few people pay attention to these dangerous chemicals.

Visit Experts

(1) Visiting to Institute of Environmental Engineering, NCTU

This summer, we visited researchers in Institute of Environmental Engineering, NCTU, whose study mainly focus on wastewater treatment. They reviewed our project and provided some suggestion for us.

1. Since enzyme producing technique is not yet mature enough to date, we should reinforce more on detection so that we can increase the efficiency of enzyme usage.

2. Agricultural wastewater has more than an imaginable amount of aerobic particles. Even if the water seems clean, it will still block the filter system in minutes. We should re-design our structure.

3.Activated carbon can only act well under the good water condition that is, containing only ions or extremely few molecules.

[ Figure. 1.1.3-1 ] The researcher in IEE of NCTU( right one) and us.

(2) Meet up with advisors, professors and iGEM NCTU