Research Brief: An Air Quality Feedback System May Promote C...
An electronic device might be able to change people’s behavior and prompt household cooks to use clean cookstoves rather...
Engineering for Change
Interest: Health
Technology is essential to good health worldwide. Product designers are revealing its potential with devices such as paper-based rapid disease diagnostics, accurate male circumcision tools that can reduce the rate of HIV infection, and suites of telemedicine tools that put doctors on screens right in a patient’s home. Medical devices are the link between good design and good health.
Interest: Health
UV Light Can Make the Indoors Safer During the Pandemic – ...
Editor’s note: The author, Dr. Karl Linden, conducts research into water and sanitation technologies that meet basic needs in underserved communities. In this article, he discusses disinfection with ultraviolet...
Cloth Masks Do Protect the Wearer – Breathing in Less Coro...
Editor’s note: E4C asked the author, Dr. Monica Gandhi, about the efficacy of masks that might be worn in impoverished and underserved communities worldwide. This is her response: “I...
The Five “E’s” of Human Centered Design in Global Deve...
Human-centered design is a process as fluid as the humans on which it is centered. But it is also a methodology that is simple enough to lend itself to...
Make Your Own Facemask Tested at 96.5% Filtration Efficiency
A do-it-yourself facemask built around an air conditioner filter has been tested at more than 96 percent filtration efficiency. Tommye Austin, Chief Nurse Executive at University Health System in...
A COVID-19 Ventilator for Everyone
What do a pressure cooker, a bicycle gear hub and COVID-19 have in common? Four weeks ago, Gerwin Smit had the idea to resurrect a ventilator that was last...
Global Health Design Informs this Open Source Face Shield
The United States has more total wealth than any other nation and even here we have a shortage of personal protective equipment. On the bright side, the incredible global...
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Experts or Not, Engineers Can Help Respond to the Pandemic
Let’s get straight to the point. Anybody can help find solutions to problems; and COVID-19 is a problem. You...
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How Changes Brought on by Coronavirus Could Help Tackle Climate Change
Stock markets around the world had some of their worst performance in decades this past week, well surpassing that...
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Coronavirus: What Might More Handwashing Mean in Countries with Water Shortages?
Different strategies for resisting the spread of the new coronavirus have emerged in different countries. But the one that...
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The Global Effort to Tackle the Coronavirus Face Mask Shortage
In recent weeks, two stories out of many about the shortage of face masks shed light on what our...
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How to Ensure 3D Printed Medical Devices Adhere to Standards
Manufacturers and hobbyists have turned their 3D printers to the challenge of restocking the depleted global supplies of medical...
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What’s Good and What’s Possible: Inspired Engineering and Helpful Tips for a Pandemic
The world is finding new and inventive ways to employ technology to solve the problems of a pandemic. Around...
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Free for a Limited Time: ASME’s Journal of Medical Devices for Economically Disadvantaged People
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ Journal of Medical Devices made a special issue available free and open to...
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New Technology Could Make Life More Bearable in Refugee Camps
I volunteered in the Moria Refugee Camp in Lesvos, Greece in March 2018. Serving as a field interpreter, I...
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Five Questions for Kathy Ku, Co-Founder of SPOUTS of Water
Kathy Ku is a medical student who has applied her engineering background to co-found a water filter manufacturing company...
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Reviewed: Aidex Aid Innovation Challenge Finalists
A one-stop eyeglasses prescription device that evaluates vision and provides the correct lenses for (USD) $5 won the AidEx...
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