EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Janesh Luximan

Author: EIS Release Date: Aug 17, 2022

Now in its fifth year of awards, EW BrightSparks sees Electronics Weekly partner with RS Grass Roots to highlight the brightest and most talented young engineers in the UK today.

 

EW BrightSparks 2022 profile: Janesh Luximan

 

Here, in our series on the latest EW BrightSparks of 2022, we highlight Janesh Luximan, a BEng Biomedical Engineering student at King’s College London (KCL) university.

 

Achievement

Janesh has always shown an interest in the environment and biology, the EW BrightSparks judges learned.

 

 

For example, as a Year 3 student at KCL, he obtained 80% in his final year group Mechatronics project and its theme was an environmental monitoring system.

 

 

 

This was a particularly challenging project at first, he told us, as it was our first real world engineering project in his engineering degree. The criteria was for the project to monitor at least two environmental variables.

 

“At the start it took us several weeks to figure out how to get even one sensor working. It was very pleasing and rewarding at the end when we were able to make not two but five sensors work! Inadequate water quality is an issue not only in developing but also developed countries. This project is important to me as Mauritius, the country I am from, was classified in 2020 as a water-stressed country by the World Bank and expected to fall under the water-scarce category.”

 

“The water levels in our reservoirs are sometimes low and some people even receive dirty water through pipes. Our project involved 5 sensors measuring 6 environmental monitors: temperature and humidity, turbidity, ultrasonic, TDS and water sensor.”

 

The project was based on an Arduino Uno and involved very inexpensive components and machines, making it very affordable and possible to replicate across poorer countries.

 

Janesh also built a Water Quality Monitoring and Notification System. It simulated a reservoir system with water sensor, pH sensor, turbidity sensor and a notification system to help people know when the water level in a reservoir is low and make sure water is safe and consumable.

 

Finally, he also did a presentation on Biochemistry in Sport and Exercise for his Molecular and Cellular Biology module in university.

 

Community / STEM

Janesh also has the distinction of having opened an NGO (non-governmental organizations) in his home country of Mauritius, although this wasn’t directly involved with engineering it was certainly helpful to the wider community as it involved supporting one-to-one tuition for needy students via capable volunteers.

 

Previously involved in the Environmental Club in high school, Janesh was ranked as 1st nationally in Alliance Française, a French and French Literature competition in 2017.

 

Other achievements include getting a Distinction for four consecutive years in a mathematics competition, run by the Australian Mathematics Trust, when he was younger.