Homework

Week 1 HW: Principles and Practices
Open-Source, Community-Deployed Microfluidic & Smartphone Imaging Platform (Decentralized Health Science) Table of Contents Biological engineering tool Governance and policy goals Governance actions Governance actions scoring matrix Prioritization recommendation Week 2 Lecture Prep 1. Biological engineering tool Motivation My senior year of high school, my sister got diagnosed with diabetes and I switched my prospective major from CS to Chemical and Biological Engineering. Around the same time, I watched a TED talk by Dr. Manu Prakash on his paper-fuge: an accessible, affordable, and hand-powered centrifuge. The device was made from paper and string, but could separate blood into components comparably with how multi-thousand dollar equipment do. Having grown up in a State Department family, moving around the global south (and in close proximity to USAID) I saw how solutions and processes taken for granted in the west are greatly inaccessible to a vast majority of the world; and additionally the strength of local and specific solutions to technical problems (the Indian concept of “jugaad”: frugal innovation).
Week 2 HW: DNA Read Write and Edit
Currently moving from Denver to India, will get my work up as soon as I get wifi access out of the airport