Of all the things he accomplished as an undergraduate at Arizona State University, Bryan Yavari is most proud of the work he did to address poor air quality inside homes in Mongolia.

An EPICS in IEEE student team called Project Koyash, which included Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University students, helped communities in Mongolia by designing a solar-powered air-filtration system.

A team of students from the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University is helping to improve the air quality for nomadic communities in Mongolia.

It’s a mid-winter’s day and the temperature in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, is 10 degrees Fahrenheit. Wanting to keep her family warm in their yurt — a portable, circular dwelling made of a lattice of flexible wood and covered in felt — and disconnected from the city’s gas utility system, a mother burns raw coal.

EPICS in IEEE has granted the project US$10,000 to continue deploying these systems within the community of Ulaanbaatar

Project Koyash won first place among the teams and was awarded $6,000 in funding

Project Koyash is one of the many EPICS@ASU student teams working together to design, build and deploy systems to solve engineering-based problems to aid in community development.

Knowledge Drop features team members Sarah and Shami to talk about Project Koyash