Design that Matters Timothy Prestero Fellowship Awarded 2004  Design that Matters acts as bridge to bring problems identified by nongovernmental organizations and members of underserved communities into the classroom for university engineering and business students to tackle in their courses and research. Design that Matters works with NGOs, corporate partners and local entrepreneurs to ensure that promising student innovations result in products and services for communities in need. Since its launch at MIT in 2000, Design that Matters has worked with hundreds of university engineering and business students on four continents to develop dozens of prototypes that promise to improve thousands of lives. For CEO Timothy Prestero, Design that Matters combines his experiences in West Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer and at MIT as an engineering graduate student. Timothy is co-inventor on three pending patents for cholera treatment devices. He is a Martin Fellow at the MIT Laboratory for Energy and the Environment. To learn more about Design that Matters, please visit www.designthatmatters.org. |
