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- Harnessing the Himalayan Sun: Delivering solar energy by incubating innovation
- The Wound-Pump, provides inexpensive, portable, sustainable Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) in all environments around the world.
- In the fall of 2009, five students from three different colleges came together to design a product that would make the world better. All of
- A voice-commandable wheelchair: harnessing advances in robotics and artificial intelligence to increase mobility and quality of life.
- Buckeye Bullet - The Fastest and Most Advanced Electric Vehicles in the World!
- Students grew EWB-MIT from a small group to an active organization of 40 working on sustainable water solutions for Ddegeya, Uganda
- A group of MIT students is developing a prototype lunar and planetary hopper to advance the exploration of the solar system.
- A framework to assess the proliferation resistance of nuclear energy systems that is going to help evaluating their security level by using
- A better glucometer for the developing world.
- Targeting health, piping water, delivering hope: UIUC students using a fundamental interaction of nature - gravity - to provide
- Think Inside the Box
- Beach Erosion: FIRST LEGO League team's innovative idea in continuously self-replenish the beaches using renewable wave energy
- Cory Levy displays forges a new culture of collaboration via networking.
- Integrating traditional water management with simple technologies in rural East Africa
- MIT Vehicle Design Summit
- Sustainability, Energy Crisis and Peace
- Team MangoBunnies: Three technical women who set out to make the world a better place.
- Final Link in the Chain: Invention of an Innovative Automated Histology Device, Toward Rapid Fully-Automated Tissue Histology for Medicine a
- MIT graduate students are taking a disposable medical robot from concept to commercialization
- We have a filter for you,it's full of algae & gets rid of CO2, keep the environment green, keep your lungs clean, this is an awesome mac
- U-M Students Look to Create Social Change Through Engineering
- Dirty Water Made Potable, Clean Water Made Portable
- Students at Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth devised an inexpensive drinking water arsenic removal system for rural Nepal
- Seed: Designing an experience in sustainability education
- Inspiring the Next Generation of Problem Solvers through Hands-on Engineering Outreach
- Mindy Weimer created the YE Water Program to work with disadvantaged Indonesian communities to improve water & sanitation conditions thr
- Rebecca Neumann pinpoints the cause of arsenic contamination in Bangladesh
- Brahmam Automated screeners - A Novel Framework to screen Identify Diagnose and Streamline children with Autism in Developing Nations.
- Leila Knowles Sustainable Green Leader
- Connecting Caring Communities: FIRST LEGO team helps communities address climate, security and health challenges by creating new on-line soc
- Engineers Without Borders Chapter Shows 10,000 Students How Engineers Can Solve the Global Water Crisis in the 2010 JETS TEAMS Competition
- Sustainability, Engineering and Nitrogen: The Story of Gordon K. Bril and His Son Jeremy
- UC San Diego undergraduates design, build, and deploy network of twelve microclimate stations to enhance sustainable operations.
- Anza sells low-cost, income-generating products made from recycled materials to African farmers. Economic empowerment for the bottom billio
- The Transportation of Information and Medicine During Medical Emergencies
- Eco-Economy Redevelopment of Monwabisi Park, Cape Town
- Toward a sustainable world: real things, real lives - making an impact
- Sierra Leone Native now U.S. citizen uses his Education to Light up his Homeland
- Bringing Solar Power to Leicester, MA
- Sierre Leone native now US citizen uses education to light up his homeland.
- Aquafinito is a documentary that looks at the reasons underlying the increased use of bottled water and the environmental and social problem
- Preparing the next generation to address the global challenges of the 21st century.
- The Drop Point finally gives pride and independence to those with limited dexterity.
- Developing a novel device to address mother to child HIV transmission through breastfeeding
- unGradSchool - a place for professional engineers to share their knowledge and collaborate on solutions for our complex environment issues
- Creating social impact using Design.
- CollaboRhythm: Health and Wellness Teamwork Anywhere at Any Time
- Sustainability on the Farm: Solutions to a Unique Local Problem
- A Gonzaga Engineering Design Team describes several alternative energy solutions for application in rural Kenya.
- Enabling scalable 'smokeless cooking stoves'
- Steerable Needle for Minimally Invasive Treatment of Large Tumors
- As a doctoral student at MIT, Danielle bridges aerospace engineering and international development to enhance the benefits countries gain fr
- Community Water Solutions: Sustainable clean water businesses provide safe drinking water access to rural Ghana
- Structural Health and Degradation Indices for Bridges
- To build a green planet, I re-engineered a concrete which not only reduces CO2 emissions by half, but is 100% stronger than typical concrete
- Help elderly - it's you in xx years
- Establishing Knights of Columbus council on college campus
- Optimization of nuclear reactor operating conditions and fuel constituents, reducing radiotoxicity of waste and opening up possibilities for
- It's Not a Toy the Story of the Pavers
- University of Wisconsin - Madison Engineers Without Borders El Salvador Project, Improving Sanitation: Wastewater Collection System
- Using the unused space between bottles in Coca-Cola crates to distribute drugs in developing countries
- Sanergy addresses the problem of sanitation, shortage of electricity and lack of access to fertilizers in developing nations
- Helping to Design a Solar Hot Water Heater for Underdeveloped Countries
- Students develop an immersible, educational, open source video game for use as supplemental mathematics material in classrooms worldwide.
- Silencing the brain with light: MIT neuroengineers invent a way to understand how neurons compute by shutting down brain circuits with light
- Duke University biomedical engineering graduate, Allison Keane, was among a team of researchers who developed a curriculum for secondary sch
- UC San Diego graduate students instrumental in bringing $154M in renewable energy financing to San Diego.
- FIRST LEGO League team proposes a green, revolutionary idea to make fuel use and production sustainable while collaborating over 1500 miles
- Brace Yourself for Change Campaign provides a tested and scalable model for raising awareness and funds for microfinance loans in developing
- The Copenhagen Wheel: a new emblem for sustainable urban mobility
- I helped the local food pantry update their catalog from paper to digital.
- We discovered a major issue on roads and highways was that motorists were not well educated about wildlife crossings and corridor space. We
- 1D folding chain systems automate construction processes to keep up with exponential growth in complexity and time constraints surrounding o
- Inventor of the World's First Solar Power Trash Compactor
- Implementation of Single Stream Recycling
- Rover Makes Students Mobile
- Wheelchair Bring Mobility to the Third World
- Water transportation to make it easier, quicker, and more efficient for rural dwellers to transport water from the water source to homes
- Innovation Changing Lives
- Investing in Nations by Investing in Individuals
- This all-terrain wheelchair improves mobility using an ingenious continuously variable lever transmission.
- Throughout the city of Boston, wood piling foundations are threatened by rot due to declining groundwater levels. As a portion of his disser
- Big Belly, a revolutionary solar trash compactor created by Olin alum Jeff Satwicz and colleagues, is providing an eco-friendly trash soluti
- Sourcemap is a free, open-source platform for sharing the story behind products to support socially and environmentally sustainable choices.
- "No One Can Beat The Wheat"
- What is your water bottle?
- Identity Theft vulnerability using RFID readers
- Using waste to fuel landfill community development
- Student Builds a Nuclear Fusion Reactor in his Garage
- Using electronic medical record systems to reduce maternal mortality in N. Nigeria
- Cebadilla Mural Project in Nicaragua
- Personalized Learning For Today's Classroom
- Build Up: Creating a world in which every family has access to a nutritious, sustainable food source
- Harvesting energy by kicking up a storm: Engineering class inspires Four girls to create a soccer ball that creates and stores energy
