The BYU Design Exploration research group creates modular housing for the developing world that is affordable, easy to assemble and weather resistant, among other things.
BYU's GEO Club worked with Design Build Bluff to help construct homes for Navajo families. The students also learned about Navajo culture from Loren Crank Sr. of the Navajo Nation.
Most children in Essam, Ghana, had never seen a merry-go-round until a BYU-led team and Empower Playgrounds arrived to install the curious device in their village.
BYU engineers worked with Care for Life, a nonprofit based in the US and Mozambique, to create a cheap building material from an unlikely source: termite mounds. The bricks they created were used to make latrines.
BYU engineers traveled to Tanzania to test their human-powered drill. Sponsored by WHOlives.org, the drill is used to drill water wells in developing countries where traditional drilling methods are too expensive.
A group of BYU students and alumni started the club and non-profit organization 2 ft. Prosthetics. Their aim is to restore dignity and self-confidence to amputees in developing countries through the production and distribution of a quality and affordable below-the-knee prosthesis.
