Ken Pickar
Visiting Professor of Mechanical Engineering

California Institute of Technology
101 Thomas, Mail Code 104-44
Pasadena, CA 91125
(626) 395-4185

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E/ME 105

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Gardener

E/ME 105: Product Design for the Developing World

Background Materials

Book Reports

  • A Path Out of Poverty - Developing Rural and Women Entrepreneurship (pdf)
  • Summary of Services for the Urban Poor, A People Centered Approach (pdf)
  • The Bottom Billion (pdf)
  • Creating a World without Poverty (doc)
  • The role of women in the conservation of the genetic resources of maize (doc)
  • Comparison of Sanitation Case Studies in Malawi and Indonesia (pdf)
  • Guatemala at a glance (pdf)
  • Out of Poverty (doc)