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Design for the Developing World

In MIT D-Lab class 2.729, Design for Scale, MIT students work with clients in the developing world to manufacture products in a more cost-efficient and effective way – from ambulances in Tanzania to an irrigation pump in Nepal.

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MIT Portugal Program presents Marine Robotics Summer School

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Meg O’Neill

Managing Director, ExxonMobil Norway

[ SB ’93, SM ’94 ]

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Nicholas Mabey

Enacting Change Through Policy

[ SM ‘93 ]

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Dana Yoerger

Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

[ SB ’77, SM ’79, PhD ’83 ]

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Design for the Developing World

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MIT Portugal Program presents Marine Robotics Summer School

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