ITSO Bootcamp highlights 'customers' in fourth session
Date Posted: March 29, 2021 at 11:20 AM
The Innovation and Technology Support Office (ITSO) continued its technopreneurship training series with its fourth installment last March 16.
Session 4 focused on Customer- driven validation and design thinking.
Mr. Haruhito Matsunami, PhD, Specially Appointed Professor in Osaka Univeersity, Japan discussed Methodology to create new values Foresight Creation. Dr. Matsunami is also the Director of the Research Institute of Behavior Observation in Osaka Gas, and has authored three books on the same field of study.
Mr. Alvin Villegas, President and co-founder of food delivery service Keni Delivery, meanwhile, talked about Design Thinking. Mr. Villegas is a renowned expert on Lean Six Sigma Program Implementation, Quality Assurance, Quality Control and Quality Management Implementation, Operations and Delivery Management, Operations Research and Quantitative Analysis, and Design Thinking Application.
ITSO, in the session’s brief, described the lectures, “The key to a good startup idea lies in the needs of the customer. We will talk about validating ideas from the perspective of customers and learn how to use design thinking in startups.”
ran of BS Chemistry Batch 2020, and Ronald Jefferson Narceda, a faculty member, had the study titled Citric Acid Crosslinked Nanofirillated Cellulose from Banana (Musa acuminate x balbisiana) Pseudostem for Adsorption of Pb2+ and Cu2+ in Aqueous solutions published at the journal of Cellulose Chemistry and Technology.
Lacaran, now a Science Research Analyst for DOST-Philippine Textile Research Institute (PTRI), also had his colleagues from DOST Josanelle Angela Billo, and Julius Leano, Jr. as co-authors. The said research was a joint project with PTIR.
The study analyses nanofibrillated cellulose isolated from banana pseudostem and thermochemically crosslinked with citric acid to fabricate an eco-friendly and highly recyclable adsorbent for the removal of toxic heavy metal contaminants in water.
According to the study, “[T]he synthesized cellulosic nanomaterial was found to be capable of removing 99% of lead and copper ions in simulated wastewater at optimum conditions.”
The complete manuscript of the research may be viewed at https://www.cellulosechemtechnol.ro/firstonline.php.
