A Knowledge Initiative by MIT Students and Alumni
The workshop mainly focused on innovation, hardworking and smart presentation.
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| Design a wallet |
From my university programming club, I came to know that a seven days workshop would be arranged by MIT students to demonstrate modern research and engineering tools. I joined to the program enthusiastically to get a touch of the genius guys of MIT.
After a short introduction, Shammi S. Quddus, a speaker of KolpoKoushal team, started the first session. She described the first core topic, "Design". When we heard the word, we only thought about colorful drawing. However, this term is slightly different in engineering discipline. How can we design a problem to feel the solution? What should be the user interface design of an software prototype? What should be the best design to easily interact with technology? She mainly focused on new technological designs that combine with lots of circuits, wires, but provides output in a human readable format.
As an example she presented a project of MIT where an EMR machine is designed as a child park (or you can say as a dream house) specifically for the child patient. As a result, a child should not aware about the medical testing strategy of EMR.
The design level is classified into four steps. such as,
1. Empathize,
2. Ideate,
3. Prototype and
4. Iterate
There was another project to provide medical service to rural people through smart phone. She demonstrated the differences of the initial design level and final prototype that patient used to get service. There was a massive distinction. At the beginning level, we really cannot realize the original problem. When we apply the prototype in real application, the complications become clear.
At last, there was a practical designing task to the participants, designing your partner's wallet. It was totally a new experience in my life. The whole process was divided into several steps. At first, we designed a wallet in pen and pencil. Then, we shared the rough drawing with our partner. That time I checked his original wallet and talked about the pros and cons of his wallet. I asked about his demand as a client, and then I had to redraw it. The process did not stop at the designing level, we had to build the prototype using paper, cotton, tape, gum and so on. When I finished it, I just could not believe that I did it. It was not a real one, but who cares!
The seven days program schedule is given below:
Day 1: Idea generation
Day 2: Crowd sourcing
Day 3: Human computation
Day 4: Augment reality, blogging
Day 5 & 6: Project work
Day 7: Project show
(The program is arranged at ULAB campus, Dhanmondi - Dhaka. 15th July, 2015)
Kolpokoushol is a platform for students and alumni of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to engage with the young minds of Bangladesh to inspire, develop and deploy new ideas and possibilities. Inspired by the unique environment and creativity nurtured at MIT, the initiative aims to encourage its participants to acquire a variety of skills, and employ those skills towards solving local and community specific problems. We are committed to maximizing participation of females in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). We also intend to include participation from communities that are misfit and under-represented in typical higher education scenarios.
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