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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 #Topicsinstructorskey dates
1Introduction: Design for Developing CountriesAmy Smith
2Design, Invention and the Design ProcessAmy SmithHomework 1 due
3Design Challenge Project PresentationsAmy Smith and project leadersDesign assignment 1 due one day after LEC 3
4Stakeholder AnalysisAmy SmithHomework 2 due
5Library Research MethodsDarcy Duke and Angela Locknar, MIT LibrariesDesign assignment 2 due
6Design SpecificationKurt Kornbluth
7The Creative Process: Prototyping LabKurt KornbluthDesign assignment 3 due
8Project: Brainstorming TechniquesWill DelHagenDesign assignment 4 due

Design assignment 6 due

Design assignment 7 due
9Lab ModulesVarious
10Lab Modules (cont.)Various
11

Team Status Reports

Project: Brainstorming

Design assignment 8 due
12Lab ModulesVarious
13Lab Modules (cont.)Various
14

Concept Evaluation and Pugh Charts

Project: Brainstorming and Evaluation

Amy SmithDesign assignment 5 due

Design assignment 9 due
15Project Planning and ManagementLinda Plano
16Graphical Representation of Information

Presentation Skills
Amy Smith

M. J. Morse, Museum of Science, Boston
Design assignment 10 due
17Project: Detailed Design and Analysis
18Design Review #1 Presentations
19Design Review #1 Presentations(cont.)

Guest Lecture: The Inventing Process

Dean Kamen, DEKA

20Design for AffordabilityAmy Smith
21Gaviotas Discussion

Haitian Agriculture
Stephanie Dalquist, MIT

David Dougherty, ORE
22Design for Reuse and Recyclability

Project: Materials Selection
Amy SmithDesign assignment 11 due
23Project: Final Concept Selection
24Co-Evolutionary Design: Arsenic Water FiltrationSusan Murcott, MIT
25Team Status Reports

Technologies for the Poor
Job Ebenezer, Messiah College
26Project: Design Task BreakdownDesign assignment 12 due
27Case Study: Affordable EyeglassesSaul GriffithDesign assignment 13 due
28Case Study: Intraocular Lenses in IndiaJoel Segre, Project Impact
29Project: Fabrication and Testing
30Economics of ProductionErica Fuchs, MIT
31Project: Fabrication and TestingDesign assignment 14 due
32Design Review #2 Presentations
33Design Review #2 Presentations(cont.)
34Project: Feedback from Design Reviews
35From Prototype to Product: Kinkajou Case StudyAllen Armstrong
36Design for AssemblyAmy SmithDesign assignment 15 due
37Practice Museum of Science Presentations
38Museum of Science Presentations
39Wrap-up Discussion
40EvaluationsFinal report due

 








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