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.
Course schedule.
| 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
Project: Brainstorming and Evaluation
|
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 |