Final presentations & working prototypes from current D-Lab students
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One hundred eleven students
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27 projects
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14 countries: Botswana, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, Uganda, USA
Friday, December 6th from 5:00 to 7:00 pm - At D-Lab, MIT N51-3rd Floor
Attendees had the opportunity to speak with student teams and view all the posters and working prototypes on display throughout the D-Lab space! Student projects were presented from the following classes:
D-Lab: Development
Instructors - Libby Hsu & Bish Sanyal
BOTSWANA
- Partner: These Hands
- Students: Anna Johnson, Christopher Kiel, Julia Milton, Amelia Seabold, Meghana Vemulapalli, Katherine Xiong
BRAZIL
- Partner: Anjos do Sertao
- Students: Muskaan Aggarwal, Yuji Chan, Rhea Mehta, Sarah Moseson, Simran Pabla, Clarice Tan
COLOMBIA
- Partner: C-Innova
- Students: Ahmad Mujtaba Jebran, Sridevi Kaza, Pedro La Rotta, Haniya Shareef, Cindy Si, Amanda Wasserman, Athena Zhang
INDIA
- Partners: MIT D-Lab Research & Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Smallholder farmer needs assessment
- Students: Sarah Dohadwala, Yi Miranda Gong, Angela Qian, Lauren Rice, Ashti Shah, Blanche Shao, Josh Talbot
MEXICO
- Partner: Oaxin, Tejiendo Alianzas
- Students: Abigael Bamepoeye, Yu Jing Chen, Mulan Jiang, Chiaki Kirby, Olivia McGrath, Julianna Rodriguez
UGANDA: Youth STEM workshops with Makerere University and TEWDI in Soroti. Product development for Auntie Betty's chili powder.
- Partner: Makerere University, TEWDI Uganda
- Students: Matthew Baldwin, Serena Le, Bhavik Nagda, Su Yang
Applications of Energy in Global Development (D-Lab: Energy II)
Instructors - Julia Heyman, Anish Paul Antony, Eric Verploegen
KENYA: Improving the design of room-scale evaporative cooling chambers.
- Partner: University of Nairobi
- Students: Alex Encinas, Madeline E. Bundy, Claudia Cabral
UGANDAˆDesigning a heat exchanger to help with non-solar fruit drying.
- Partner: TEWDI Uganda
- Students: Arnav Y. Patel, Lucy Jackson, Caroline G. Boone
D-Lab: Gender & Development
Instructors - Sally Haslanger & Libby McDonald
KENYA: Workshops on menstrual health and co-design of sanitary napkins
- Partner: Society Empowerment Project
- Students: Yasmin Afifi, Carolyn Lam, Nikita Jindal, Alanna Uthgennant, Deepa Manjanatha, Cynthia Ni, Julia Camilli, I Made Subagiarta
PERU: Movement building workshop with women miners in Secocha that weaves together public narrative and co-design
- Partner: Universidad Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC)
- Students: Anicia Gillespie, Sofia Ramirez, Daniela Teran Endara
D-Lab: Schools - Building Technology Laboratory
Instructor - Les Norford
EGYPT: Evaluation of strategies to reduce energy and carbon emissions and improve visual and thermal comfort in the Magdi Yacoub School
- Partner: Mansoura University
- Students: Nina Huttemann, Ji Min Lee, Victoria Lopez Cabeza, Sunghwan Lim, Jinqiao Meng, Herbert Nuwagaba, Bryan Ong, Vanessa Pipitone, Nicole Teichner, Mirah Xu and Ilia Yazdanpanah,Yesufu O'ladipo (TA)
D-Lab: Supply Chains
Instructor - Stephen Graves
COLOMBIA: TRES - Evaluation of demand for urban transit that could be served by pedicabs
- Partner:
- Students: Jairo Rodriguez-Tovar, Wei-Ching Lin
INDIA: Design of supply chain for household fan
- Partner: Greenway Appliances
- Students: Samip Jain, Sandra L Walter, Danielle Gleason
INDIA: Supply chain evaluation of deployment of chilling stations for collecting milk from farmers
- Partner: Promethean Power Systems
- Students: Deekshita Kacham, Ameneh Fadaie, Elena Gonzalez
INDIA: Supply chain coordination: modeling and optimization of supply chain for components supplied by EMSYS to Selco
- Partner: Selco and EMSYS
- Students: Brian S Glat, Audrey Pettigrew
INDONESIA & MALAYSIA: Supply chain design: determination of location of facility for insect farming
- Partner: INSEACT
- Students: Sophie Li, Harshal Singh, Enuma Mokel, Jaeho Kim
NIGERIA: Supply chain operations: development of system for procurement and inventory management for commodities for pharmaceutical stores
- Partner: Lifestores
- Students: Ogbogu Ukuku, Saffron Deasey, Aleena Shabbir
RWANDA: Supply chain evaluation of farmer-promoter initiative to recruit farmers to use Kumwe's logistic services
- Partner: Kumwe Solutions
- Students: Crystal Pham, Sarah A Moseson, Grace A Quaratiello
UGANDA: Supply chain planning for family planning services at public health clinics
- Partner: Health Access Connect
- Students: Jennifer Fox, Dexin Li, Jack Novak. Deborah Goh
D-Lab: WASH
Instructors - Susan Murcott & Libby Hsu
INDIA: Investigating alternatives to the use of acid in desalination in India to make the process safer and cheaper
- Partner: GEAR Lab, MIT Tata Center
- Student: Rashed Al-Rashed
INDIA: Improvements to a gasifier used to incinerate human waste, and planning to pilot the use of the gasifier in an Indian market
- Partner: Insanirator
- Students: Phillip Dixon, Elliott Donlon, Caroline Ko
KENYA: Working with Maasi women to: 1) build ISSB rainwater harvesting tanks 2) implement a ceramic pot filter marketing strategy based on lean marketing and 3) conduct a 5-day WASH training course to "train the trainers"
- Partner: Mama Maji
- Students: Savitri Fouda, Kendyll Hicks, Reika Ishii, Shawn Luo
USA: Devise campus-wide recommendations for municipal water conservation and efficiency strategies and practices across all campus systems and to reduce the need for and demand for bottled water purchases.
- Partner: MIT Water Sustainability Working Group
- Students: Shail Joshi, Nina Mascarenhas
Design for Scale
Instructors - Kate Bergeron, Harald Quintus-Bosz, Sorin Grama, Maria Yang
INDIA: Developing a low-cost respiratory monitor for babies
- Partner: InSync
- Students: Harith Morgan, Zoe Wolszon, David Griggs
INDIA: Developing an actively cooled bag for last-mile deliveries of perishable items
- Partner: Promethean Power Systems
- Students: Cory Ventres-Pake, Orisa Coombs, Asia Chapman
GLOBAL: Reducing cost, size, and weight of a portable, surgical field that fits in a backpack
- Partner: SurgiBox
- Students: Chinh Bui, Carson Tucker, Sandra Walter
KENYA: Pay-as-you-go gas meter for Kenya
- Partner: PayGo
- Students: Sheila Kennedy-Moore, Srimayi Tenali, Titan Hartono
Technologies for Mental Health and Wellness
Instructors: Rich Fletcher & Karin Hodges
Contact
Libby Hsu, Lecturer & Academic Program Manager