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Julia Jenjezwa

Global Health How did university makerspaces plug supply chain gaps during COVID-19? Lessons on local manufacturing from our makerspace in Tanzania.	Global Health How can locally available materials be used to plug supply chain stop gaps? Lessons from the construction of a UV mask sterilization unit in a pediatric oncology hospital in Tanzania.	Global Health How can we empower local engineers to solve problems within their own communities? Students from the DIT makerspace reinstall a patient monitor repaired using skills taught in the Lemelson Internship program.	Global Health CADed this kidney basin design that was 3D printed in the field by FieldReady workers responding to the 2015 earthquake in Nepal.
Global Health Using Solidworks modelling to redesign wear-prone parts of the Zimbabwe Type-B bushpump.	Global Health How do we provide sanitation to large populations in the immediate wake of a humanitarian crisis? Lessons from my internship at Sanergy, constructing a rapidly deployable Waste Transfer Station.

Product Design Ellen's Garden Table - collapsible steel outdoor table.	Product Design Universally compatible remote generator monitor designed in response to Hurricane Florence's impact on the USMC's Camp Lejeune.	Product Design Designed & fabricated a remote-controlled Arduino drone capable of picking & dropping a 1kg payload.	Product Design Humanitarian response in wake of Hurricanes Irma & Maria in the US Virgin Islands with FieldReady.
Product Design Beatbox haptic skill partial task trainer.	Product Design Charcuterie board with custom heat-formed brass handles.

Education Served as a TA for one of Stanford's longest running courses - ME 101: Visual Thinking where students explored the connection between seeing, imagining, drawing & making.	Education How can African makerspaces provide collaborative creative environments for artists and engineers? An experiment with finding answers in lateral thinking.	Education How can we automate makerspace processes to ensure optimal use of limited human resources time? An online platform to streamline makerspace services.	Education Annual DIT makerspace robot competition. Students applied technical skills taught in annual bootcamp to design an autonomous robot that would fight another in a sumo-ring.
Education Creating big & small opportunities for problem-based learning in education. A variety of earphone holders created after a CAD & 3D workshop.	Education How can we integrate new technology within an entire hospital system? Training cleaners, clinicians & engineers to use a custom-built UV mask sterilization unit at the pediatric oncology of Muhimbili Hospital.