The D-Lab project involves a solar trajectory in Africa
Jodie Wu ’09 was questioning her path as an engineer when Jodie Wu ’09 started her freshman year after leaving a corporate internship. Participating in a D-Lab-class project in Tanzania revealed a passion for engineering to help serve emerging markets in Africa.
Wu recalled that he was naive the first time he traveled to Africa: “As a student, you think you can save the world in three weeks.” But during that visit and during his round-trip trips to the MIT Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center, he began to understand the scope of the problems facing local rural communities — which he is still trying to address a decade later.