Design for the Developing World (DR)

Description from DukeHub

Design of custom devices to help the specific and unique needs of developing world hospitals. Formal engineering design principles will be emphasized; overview of developing world conditions, patent issues, engineering ethics. Oral and written reports will be required. Students may elect to personally deliver their projects to a developing world hospital, if selected, in the summer following the course. Prerequisite: BME 354L; senior standing.

Skills

• designtitle: "design"
• lab workhas a lab component
• clinicaldescription: "hospitals" and 1 more
• writingAI review: "Oral and written reports will be required"
• public speakingAI review: "Oral and written reports will be required"

AI-resilient: 2 of 5 2/5

• ✓Yes: Physical, lab or field work · "laboratory"
• No: Live work with people
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "ethics"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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