Technology Clinic is a two-semester program in which teams of students from each academic division work together on imaginative solutions to real-world problems for clients.
The students are nominated by professors and former Tech Clinic students and mentored by two faculty facilitators. Project teams are purposely multidisciplinary and include students and faculty mentors from the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences and Engineering. To encourage “out-of-the-box” thinking we have no requirements for prior experience, thus reducing incoming “prejudices” in order to encourage innovative solutions.
Current Projects
In their first semester:
Client: Saint Luke's University Health Network: "Encouraging Patients to Use Digital Technologies"
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Upcoming Presentations
Watch this space for announcements about ongoing project presentations
Clients and Sponsors
We are always looking for new and intellectually interesting projects. If you have an idea for a project to sponsor, please contact us.
See the list of past clients and sponsors
Past Projects
From the development of solar-powered lily pads, to greening trout farming to pandemic planning to a self-guided automobile tour to devloping nutrition programs for underserved populations, students have developed solutions for a wide variety of challenges presented by clients.
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Brief History Of the Technology Clinic
The Technology Clinic was started in 1988 by now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Dan Bauer as a continuation of a Sloan Foundation “New Liberal Arts Initiative” grant to encourage the integration of engineering into a liberal arts curriculum. At the conclusion of the grant, the Tech Clinic was founded based upon the concept that problems are best solved by multidisciplinary teams.
Since inception Tech Clinic teams have worked on over 70 different projects for entities as far ranging as local NGOs to multi-national corporations. The very first project in 1988, conducted for the Safe Harbor Water Power Corporation (client contact Don Chubb Lafayette class of 1950), resulted in a debris harvester that is now used worldwide. More recently the social entrepreneurship project on Nutrition in the West Ward done for the West Ward Neighborhood Partnership has morphed into the continuing effort “Veggies in the Community” distributing organically-grown produce to West Ward residents through the summer and fall.
Professor Malinconico (Geology and Environmental Geosciences), the current director of the Clinic, has been involved since the early 90s and took over as director in 2011.
