BME377T:Development

BME377T course development scratch pad. Feel free to use this as a repository for ideas, notes, and resources.

Course Description

Recruitment E-mail Draft

Social Entrepreneurship & Engineering is a project-based course to help bring out and build up your creativity, brainstorming, and team building skills towards social innovations.

...okay, that's all I could think of because I just incorporated those key phrases into one sentence. :( Huda, help.

Key phrases

• students teaching students
• thinking outside the box
• developing creative process
• contributing to society
  • thinking about others besides ourselves
• bme more than just med school and grad school
  • other career options?

Recruitment

Within biomedical engineering

• Cindy
• Word of mouth

Outside biomedical engineering

• Ask Cindy!
• Flyers

Resources

Websites

• TED: Ideas worth spreading
  • Dean Kamen discusses new prosthetic arm
  • Hans Rosling debunks myths with amazing graphical statistics
  • Jacqueline Novogratz reveals ways to make poverty history
• PBS The New Heroes
• SE Competition
• By SE for SE
• Uncommon Heroes Video
• MIT Press
• Social Enterprise Reporter
• MIT D-Lab
  • MIT D-Lab 2

Books

• The Myths of Innovation, Scott Berkun
• The Art of Innovation, Tom Kelley
• The Ten Faces of Innovation, Tom Kelley
• Thinker Toys, Michael Michalko
  • Social Entrepreneurship: combining two antagonistic concepts into one (making money, doing social good)
  • Einstein's Paradox (lead by following, win by losing, etc).