Amy Smith of MIT’s D-Lab, was award Popular Mechanics 2008 Leadership Award for her continued creativity and relentless efforts in engineering for the developing world. The following is an exerpt from popularmechanics.com:
In her acceptance speech at the Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards last week, appropriate design innovator Amy B. Smith showed how she and her team took a simple machine for making charcoal briquettes and refined it to be faster, easier to use and more affordable for the communities that use it.
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