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SP.722 meets three times per week. In a typical week, there are two full-class Lecture sessions, and one Project session in which students work in their teams on problem definition, design and fabrication tasks.

Lec # Topics instructors key dates

1

Introduction: Design for Developing Countries

Amy Smith

  

2

Design, Invention and the Design Process

Amy Smith

Homework 1 due

3

Design Challenge Project Presentations

Amy Smith and project leaders

Design assignment 1 due one day after LEC 3

4

Stakeholder Analysis

Amy Smith

Homework 2 due

5

Library Research Methods

Darcy Duke and Angela Locknar, MIT Libraries

Design assignment 2 due

6

Design Specification

Kurt Kornbluth

  

7

The Creative Process: Prototyping Lab

Kurt Kornbluth

Design assignment 3 due

8

Project: Brainstorming Techniques

Will DelHagen

Design assignment 4 due

Design assignment 6 due

Design assignment 7 due

9

Lab Modules

Various

  

10

Lab Modules (cont.)

Various

  

11

Team Status Reports

Project: Brainstorming

  

Design assignment 8 due

12

Lab Modules

Various

  

13

Lab Modules (cont.)

Various

  

14

Concept Evaluation and Pugh Charts

Project: Brainstorming and Evaluation

Amy Smith

Design assignment 5 due

Design assignment 9 due

15

Project Planning and Management

Linda Plano

  

16

Graphical Representation of Information

Presentation Skills

Amy Smith

M. J. Morse, Museum of Science, Boston

Design assignment 10 due

17

Project: Detailed Design and Analysis

    

18

Design Review #1 Presentations

    

19

Design Review #1 Presentations(cont.)

Guest Lecture: The Inventing Process

Dean Kamen, DEKA

  

20

Design for Affordability

Amy Smith

  

21

Gaviotas Discussion

Haitian Agriculture

Stephanie Dalquist, MIT

David Dougherty, ORE

  

22

Design for Reuse and Recyclability

Project: Materials Selection

Amy Smith

Design assignment 11 due

23

Project: Final Concept Selection

    

24

Co-Evolutionary Design: Arsenic Water Filtration

Susan Murcott, MIT

  

25

Team Status Reports

Technologies for the Poor

Job Ebenezer, Messiah College

  

26

Project: Design Task Breakdown

  

Design assignment 12 due

27

Case Study: Affordable Eyeglasses

Saul Griffith

Design assignment 13 due

28

Case Study: Intraocular Lenses in India

Joel Segre, Project Impact

  

29

Project: Fabrication and Testing

    

30

Economics of Production

Erica Fuchs, MIT

  

31

Project: Fabrication and Testing

  

Design assignment 14 due

32

Design Review #2 Presentations

    

33

Design Review #2 Presentations(cont.)

    

34

Project: Feedback from Design Reviews

    

35

From Prototype to Product: Kinkajou Case Study

Allen Armstrong

  

36

Design for Assembly

Amy Smith

Design assignment 15 due

37

Practice Museum of Science Presentations

    

38

Museum of Science Presentations

    

39

Wrap-up Discussion

    

40

Evaluations

  

Final report due