Toward a New Field of Development Engineering: Linking Technology Design to the Demands of the Poor

By Veena Narashiman An injured soldier is rushed to a field hospital and is bleeding out. A surgeon needs to give the soldier meds to

The Health Technologies Collaborative Laboratory, a brand-new collaboration space to advance the development of medical devices to facilitate better healthcare and close the data and information gaps between innovators and industry, opened its doors last month in Blum Hall’s historic Naval Architecture Building with a launch event on Sept. 23 for a masked-up group of supporters, industry representatives, and campus VIPs.

By Tamara Straus James Bernard is senior director of global strategic partnerships for the education group at Microsoft, where his team builds multilateral partnerships in