Student projects in D-Lab classes are defined by community partners and social ventures around the world - we don't always know what is needed, but our community partners do, and our students have technical knowledge and skills to contribute to that work.
Each semester, through a selection of full-semester classes, our students form into teams to work on projects framed by community partners – NGOs, local nonprofits, and social entrepreneurs. At the end of each semester, students present their work to their peers, partners, and guests.
D-Lab Fall 2021 Student Showcase
Thursday, December 2 at 7 pm on Zoom
Register for the Zoom event here.
Please join us for an overview of the fall 2021 D-Lab class team projects and an opportunity to join break-out rooms with individual classes and teams!
Applications of Energy in Global Development
Instructors: Dan Sweeney, Eric Verploegen
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Uganda: Design and Analysis of Charcoal Briquette Heat Exchanger for Fruit Drying
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Cameroon: Low-Cost Chick Brooder for Farmers
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Kenya, India: Evaporative Cooling Shipping Container for Fruit and Vegetable Preservation
D-Lab: Development
Instructors: Libby Hsu, Bish Sanyal
- Colombia: Hydroponics for Spinach!
- Madagascar: MADesal - Passive Solar Water Desalination
- India, Nepal: Water Quality Testing and Decontamination
- Nigeria: Empowerment, Efficiency, and Egusi: Collaborating with Roshan Renewables on an Improved Cookstove
D-Lab: Schools (Building Technology Lab)
Instructor: Les Norford
- Sierra Leone: Learning and Community Center for Masiaka
Design for Scale
Instructors: Grace Connors, Maria Yang, Emily Young
- Mexico: Sustainable Shoe Manufacturing for Oaxaca
- US, India: Out of the Box Education Platform
- South Africa: Low-Cost UV Disinfection Box to Mitigate Hospital-Transferrable Disease
- UK-based NGO/Global: Low-Cost UVC Water Disinfection Device
Gender & Development
Instructors: Sally Haslanger, Libby McDonald
- Kenya: Creative Capacity Building for Sexual and Reproductive Health in Homa Bay
- Peru: Gender Analysis Framework for Remote Mining Communities in Puno
- Colombia: Sexual and Reproductive Health in Mining Communities in Bajo Cauca
Global Ventures
Instructors: Joost Bonsen, Alex (Sandy) Pentland
- Athena - Shared Computing
- Luban
- SaaS Bee
- catalan.ai
- Patient First.AI
- MANOAgri
- VR Environmental Therapy
- Sunset Hunter
- Mercury Intelligence
- TeraData
- Redwood
- Shopflex
- De Taali!