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Dr. Kenneth A. Pickar |
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Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
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E105: Product Design for the Developing World |
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Field Guide to Appropriate Technology, edited by Barrett Hazeltine and Christopher Bull, 2003 Descriptions of appropriate technologies, reports from the field
Mastering the Machine Revisited, by Ian Smillie, 2000 Very good: how appropriate technology fits into the larger picture of aid and development, and what it has accomplished in the fight against poverty. (I have a copy I would be willing to loan out –Jeff)
How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurs and the Power of New Ideas, by David Bornstein, 2004 Cases of Ashoka fellows and what they’re doing. An interesting read
Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, by E.F. Schumacher, 1973 An interesting take on economics by the man who invented appropriate technology
The AT Reader: Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology, by Marilyn Carr, 1985 Essays, exerpts and cases of Appropriate Technology. Only a little bit out of date. |
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Instructor: Ken Pickar, x4185 |