During December 19-20, 2024, Mr. Alfan Kurnia Yudha, a doctoral student supervised by Assoc. Prof. Natt Leelawat, D.Eng., from the Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University; co-supervised by Dr. Jing Tang from the International School of Engineering (ISE), Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, participated in the “Intelligent Service : A Social Perspective Workshop” organized by the Institute of Science Tokyo (formerly Tokyo Institute of Technology) Academy for Convergence of Materials and Informatics (TAC-MI) in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.
The workshop’s theme was “Future Material and Future Society : Materials to Live in Extreme Environments”. Mr. Alfan’s group won the Moonshot Award with their innovative proposal to address overpopulation and rising sea levels by constructing “Dome Cities” under the sea. The dome cities will be constructed with future materials where it is made from Alloy/Light-weight polymers that has 3 layers, each with their own unique functions from protection layer, energy generation layer, and temperature layer. Furthermore, they also proposed the dome is equipped with optical fiber cable that has the capabilities to gather and transport the sunlight from surface to under the sea since the dome is built 500-1000 m blow the sea levels where there is no sunlight.
The proposed materials are based on the existing technologies and current martials but with their capabilities that they currently have but will be possible in the future, so it is not a pipedream solutions.
The Moonshot awards is awarded for only one team that proposed a solution that is futuristic and will be possible in the future to be adapted to tackle issues that may rise and will benefit the society and transform them for a better living condition.
