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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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Everything Old is New Again Link Brian Hindo and Michael Arndt, Business Week Online, September 25, 2006.
UN: The Millennium Development Goals Report 2005 PDF Report on progress at achieving the MDGs
Bernard Amadei. Program in Engineering for Developing Communities: Viewing the Developing World as the Classroom of the 21st Century. 33rd ASEE/IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference, 2003.
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) The State of Food and Agriculture 2003-2004 (esp part 2) PDF Stats about agriculture, malnutrition, etc.—reference for Agricultural projects
Inheriting the World: The Atlas of Children’s Health and the Environment (World Health Organization) PDF Statistics and information about health risks for children—good reference for health-related projects
Tom Dahl-Østergaard, David Moore, Vanessa Ramirez, Mark Wenner, Ane Bonde Community-Driven Rural Development: What Have We Learned? Inter-American Development Bank. PDF
A Path out of Poverty: Developing rural and women entrepreneurship. United Nations Industrial Development Organization. PDF
Parsons, Laura Brigitte. “Engineering in Context: Engineering in Developing Countries” Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice October 1996 PDF Decent description of the realities of doing engineering in developing countries
Björn-Sören Gigler. Including the Excluded- Can ICTs empower poor communities? Towards an alternative evaluation framework based on the capability approach PDF
Paul Starkey, Simon Ellis, John Hine, Anna Ternell. World Bank Technical Paper: Improving Rural Mobility: Options for Developing Motorized and Nonmotorized Transport in Rural Areas PDF
Gorter, A.C. et al. “Hygiene behavior in rural Nicaragua in relation to diarrhoea” International Journal of Epidemiology 1998 PDF Study of the effects of hygiene on the likelihood of contracting diarrhea—good health/sanitation project reference
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General Reference |
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Contact Information: |
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Instructor: Ken Pickar, x4185 |