• Engineers Without Borders - San Francisco Professionals:

www.ewb-sfp.org

The San Francisco Chapter has projects going on in Tanzania, Haiti, and Sri Lanka around sustainable architecture, solar panel installation, water pumping, etc. There is also an "Appropriate Technology Design Team" working on fuel-efficient cookstoves for refugees in Darfur and wind turbines for power generation in rural Guatemala. The team is led by two Stanford alumni, Heather Fleming (h.phlegming@gmail.com) and Francis Doumet (fdoumet@gmail.com).

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• Stanford d.school class – Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability (any graduate student may apply too take course): http://www.stanford.edu/class/me206/

“The class is taught by one of my favorite professors ever, James Patell from the GSB... David Kelly initially co-taught the class as well but that torch was predominantly passed last year to my good friend and extremely talented guy Adam French, although I'm not sure of his involvement this year. Couldn't recommend the class more highly.”

“This year the class will be co-taught by Sarah Stein-Greenberg, an equally talented individual. In fact, the water pump she designed for the class last year is currently in production and is doing very well. Great class, it made me want to come to Stanford.”

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• Krista Donaldson is a PD alum who went on to get a PhD. This is her area of expertise. From the alumni list on the PD website: krista@donaldson.net

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• Amy Smith has been working on Developing country products for decades at MIT as a grad student & now a prof. She is a great person & very dedicated.

her TED talk on her research:

http://tedblog.typepad.com/tedblog/2006/08/amy_smith_on_te.html

Her Wikipiedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Smith

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• ”UCLA used to have a program called Design for Developing Nations. The professor…was one of Bob McKim's professors, but that was 15 years ago and I'm not sure if the program still exists, but it was a very interesting program at the time.”

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• Environmental Design in Developing Countries minor @ UC Berkeley:

http://new-ced.berkeley.edu/departments--programs/arch/minor-environmental-design-in-developing-countries.htm