| 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 | 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 |