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Contextual engineering improves success of projects in non-industrial societies

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IMAGE: Ann-Perry Witmer meets with village elders in Adu Achi, Nigeria. view more 

Credit: College of ACES, University of Illinois

URBANA, Ill. – Humanitarian engineering projects often focus on bringing western technologies to non-industrialized societies. But environmental and cultural factors in these locations may be very different from conditions in the West, and the…