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How do you decide which global development challenges to take on as an engineer? This framework from MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) Professor Amos Winter breaks it down into 3 key questions: 1️⃣ Real merit — Is the problem compelling enough to affect a lot of people? 2️⃣ Technical merit — Is this actually a technical problem, or is it better solved through policy, marketing, or economics? 3️⃣ Value — Who would fund this work, and more importantly, who's positioned to disseminate and adopt it? A classic mistake in global development is assuming you know what people need. The reality: people adopt what they want, not what they need. Explore more from MIT OpenCourseWare on MIT Learn: https://bit.ly/3PKwAJ8
