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Lecture Notes

LEC # TOPICS INSTRUCTORS SLIDES NOTES

1

Introduction: Design for Developing Countries

Amy Smith

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(PDF 2)

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2

Design, Invention and the Design Process

Amy Smith

(PDF - 1.1 MB)

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3

Design Challenge Project Presentations

Amy Smith

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4

Stakeholder Analysis

Amy Smith

(PDF)

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5

Library Research Methods

Darcy Duke and Angela Locknar, MIT Libraries

  

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6

Design Specification

Kurt Kornbluth

  

(PDF)

7

The Creative Process: Prototyping Lab

Kurt Kornbluth

  

(PDF)

8

Project: Brainstorming Techniques

Will DelHagen

    

9

Lab Modules

Example: Water Testing

Various

Amy Smith

  

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10

Lab Modules (cont.)

Various

    

11

Team Status Reports

Project: Brainstorming

    

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12

Lab Modules

Various

    

13

Lab Modules (cont.)

Various

    

14

Concept Evaluation and Pugh Charts

Project: Brainstorming and Evaluation

Amy Smith

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15

Project Planning and Management

Linda Plano

(PDF) (Courtesy of Linda Plano. Used with permission.)

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16

Graphical Representation of Information

Presentation Skills

Amy Smith

M. J. Morse, Museum of Science, Boston

(PDF) (Courtesy of M. J. Morse. Used with permission.)

(PDF)

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

  

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21

Gaviotas Discussion

Haitian Agriculture

Stephanie Dalquist, MIT

David Dougherty, ORE

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22

Design for Reuse and Recyclability

Project: Materials Selection

Amy Smith

    

23

Project: Final Concept Selection

    

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24

Co-Evolutionary Design: Arsenic Water Filtration

Susan Murcott, MIT

(PDF - 1.8 MB) (Courtesy of Susan Murcott. Used with permission.)

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25

Team Status Reports

Technologies for the Poor

Job Ebenezer, Messiah College

  

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26

Project: Design Task Breakdown

    

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27

Case Study: Affordable Eyeglasses

Saul Griffith

  

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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

      

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

(PDF - 1.4 MB) (Courtesy of Design That Matters, Inc. Used with permission.)

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36

Design for Assembly

Amy Smith

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37

Practice Museum of Science Presentations

      

38

Museum of Science Presentations

      

39

Wrap-up Discussion

      

40

Evaluations