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3.00 Credits
Provides a multi-disciplinary approach to global health technology design through lectures and a major team project based on fieldwork, which involves partnering with community health professionals in Nicaragua. Explores the current state of global health challenges and teaches students how to design medical technologies that address those problems using interactive laboratory modules. Culminates in the creation of a product design solution to address the challenges observed in the field. Travel to Nicaragua during spring break includes additional fee; consult instructor for details. Students may be able to arrange summer research opportunities based on coursework experience. Enrollment limited.
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Prereq: Permission of instructor
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3.00 Credits
Provides a project-based approach that engages students in understanding and addressing the applications of alternative energy technology in developing countries. Focuses on compact, robust, low-cost systems for generating electrical power. Includes projects such as micro-hydro, solar, or wind turbine generators along with theoretical analysis, design, prototype construction, evaluation and implementation. Students will have the opportunity for an optional spring break site visit to identify and implement projects, and to work collaboratively with graduate students at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi. Enrollment limited by lottery; must attend first class session.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Explores the dynamic nexus of global biodiversity, community development, technology and venture design through case studies, guest presentations, and experiential activities. Considers what kinds of projects and programs create opportunities to generate income and benefit biodiversity. Discusses both direct efforts, such as reforestation and sustainable agriculture, and indirect efforts, such as development of livelihoods that offer alternatives to habitat-reducing activities like poaching, monoculture, overfishing, and deforestation. Students and community partners explore ways to collaborate, identifying community concerns and co-designing potential solutions to address them sustainably. Opportunities for optional travel to work with partner communities. Enrollment limited by lottery; must attend first class session.
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Focuses on disseminating Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) or water/environment innovations in developing countries and underserved communities worldwide. Structured around field-based learning, case studies, lectures and videos in which teams propose an idea and are mentored through the process of bringing that innovation to fruition. Emphasizes core WASH and water/environment principles, culture-specific solutions, tools for start-ups, appropriate and sustainable technologies, behavior change, social marketing, building partnerships, and the theory and practice of innovation diffusion. Term project entails entering the IDEAS or other competition(s) while implementing a WASH or water/environment innovation in a specific locale. Guest lectures on specific real-world WASH and water/environment projects which have been disseminated by MIT faculty, students, alumni, and others. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments. Limited to 30.
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Prereq: None
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3.00 Credits
Addresses problems faced by underserved communities with a focus on design, experimentation, and prototyping processes. Particular attention placed on constraints faced when designing for developing countries. Multidisciplinary teams work on long-term projects in collaboration with community partners, field practitioners, and experts in relevant fields. Topics covered include design for affordability, manufacture, sustainability, and strategies for working effectively with community partners and customers. Students may continue projects begun in SP.721. Enrollment limited by lottery; must attend first class.
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Prereq: 2.670 or permission of the instructor
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2.00 Credits
Improve wheelchair technology in developing countries by applying sound engineering practices to create appropriate devices. Lectures focus on wheelchair usage, social stigmas, and manufacturing constraints. Includes lectures by third-world community partners, US wheelchair organizations, and MIT faculty. Multidisciplinary student teams conduct term-long wheelchair projects relating to hardware design, manufacturing optimization, biomechanics modeling, and business plan development. Funded opportunities are available for travel to implement class projects at wheelchair workshops in the field.
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2.00 Credits
Introduces the fundamentals of human walking. Provides an overview of different types of gait disabilities and the available technologies that address them. Presents patient perspective as well as current areas of research. Topics focus on lower-limb disabilities, such as polio and above- and below-knee amputation. Covers both developed and developing world techniques for overcoming these disabilities. Includes a term project in which teams of 3 to 5 students manufacture a prototype. Teams meet outside of class and work with a TA (project mentor) to research, design, prototype, and test a solution. Projects focus on low-cost orthotic and prosthetic knee designs for the developing world, as specified by partner organizations in India and Guatemala.
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Prereq: None
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1.00 Credits
Explores bicycle technology as a way to provide human power for an array of purposes in underserved communities. Presents an historical perspective on bicycle technology via lectures, guest speakers, and laboratory exercises. Students work as a group on a joint design and fabrication project; they then form project teams to take on design challenges from community organizations that work with bicycle-based technologies around the world. Optional January travel to partner communities. Limited to 16.
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2.00 Credits
Introduces concepts of supply chain design and operations with a focus on supply chains for products destined to improve quality of life in developing countries. Topics include demand estimation, facility location and operations planning, inventory management, and supply chain coordination and performance. Also covers issues specific to emerging markets, such as sustainable supply chains, how to couple product design with supply chain design and operation, and how to account for the value-adding role of a supply chain. Students conduct projects on supply chain design or improvement.
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1.00 Credits
Students with little or no previous woodworking experience design and build a post and rung stool. Starting with a green (not dried) oak log and using only hand tools, students learn material properties and tool capabilities in the historical context of a 17th-century New England woodworker. Provides the experience of creating a functional stool from basic raw materials as well as insight on life and work in 17th-century New England.
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Prereq: None
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