In this episode of WLEI Podcast, we welcome Amy Smith, Founding Director of MIT’s D-Lab, an innovative university-based program in international development and a senior lecturer in Mechanical Engineering at MIT.
The conversation explores:
- The D-Lab’s approach to design and how this differs from other design methodologies
- What it means for engineers to truly work in partnership with local communities and listen to their needs
- How the D-Lab measures the success and impact of its projects
- Lean product and process development and how the D-Lab thinks about knowledge capture/sharing (to ensure that learnings from one project are leveraged in future initiatives)
- Amy Smith’s advice for engineering students who want to solve really tough problems
Designing the Future
An Introduction to Lean Product and Process Development.
