Jerome Arul

Jerome Arul is an industrial designer and interdisciplinary artist. A career in design and manufacturing allowed him to work on projects in East Africa, Southeast Asia and China. He managed engineering and product design at EcoZoom and scaled up production of the Tubeho Neza cook stove program in Rwanda, enabled by the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism. EcoZoom’s products have been deployed by the World Food Programme, the International Committee of the Red Cross and Relief International. Since 2015, Jerome has co-taught a collaborative studio on product design and development with RISD Industrial Design, the MIT School of Engineering and Sloan School of Management. He has also taught design courses at the MIT D-Lab. 
 
Jerome was born in Singapore and spent portions of his childhood in Mumbai, India and Geneva, Switzerland. He once served as an operations officer in an armored engineer battalion in the Singapore Armed Forces. When he isn’t teaching, Jerome makes things at a small prototyping and fabrication shop in Providence.