Overview
Engineer, designer, and program leader with 15+ years of design experience, currently responsible for the Discovery phase of the Convergent Aeronautics Solutions project at NASA: ~40 people organized into design sprint teams exploring the intersection of aeronautics and other sectors like healthcare, agriculture, and sustainability to co-design futures with communities "for the benefit of all humankind."
Adjunct Professor and educator at heart having taught hands-on design, making, entrepreneurship, and critical inquiry courses since 2011. Developed and taught courses with roughly 750 professional, graduate, and undergraduate students at Duke, MIT, Stanford, and the University of San Diego in Mechanical Engineering, Management Science & Engineering, and a transdisciplinary Masters in Engineering, Sustainability, & Health (20+ terms of eight courses).
Researcher and ethnographer studying how people co-design across disciplinary, organizational, cultural, and human-AI boundaries with best paper awards from the Design Society, ASME Design Theory & Methodology Division, and ASEE Design Engineering Education Division.
Adjunct Professor and educator at heart having taught hands-on design, making, entrepreneurship, and critical inquiry courses since 2011. Developed and taught courses with roughly 750 professional, graduate, and undergraduate students at Duke, MIT, Stanford, and the University of San Diego in Mechanical Engineering, Management Science & Engineering, and a transdisciplinary Masters in Engineering, Sustainability, & Health (20+ terms of eight courses).
Researcher and ethnographer studying how people co-design across disciplinary, organizational, cultural, and human-AI boundaries with best paper awards from the Design Society, ASME Design Theory & Methodology Division, and ASEE Design Engineering Education Division.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Adjunct Associate Professor in the Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs
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2024 - Present
Engineering Graduate and Professional Programs,
Pratt School of Engineering
Recent Publications
Human-AI Collaboration Among Engineering and Design Professionals: Three Strategies of Generative AI Use
Conference No. DETC2024-143560 · August 25, 2024 Featured Publication Designers are increasingly using Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in design processes; however, knowing how designers use GenAI--especially in professional design practice--is under-explored. This paper presents an ethnographic study of a design ... Link to item CiteA Spectrum of Stakeholder Perspective Taking in Early-Stage Design
Conference Proceedings of the Design Society · July 1, 2023 Featured Publication Stakeholder perspective taking is a critical skill in early-stage problem exploration and framing. We examined stakeholder perspective taking within an early-stage design team of engineers at NASA to begin to understand in what ways and under what conditio ... Full text Open Access Link to item CiteObjects of Collaboration: Roles and Sequences of Objects in Spanning Knowledge Group Boundaries in Design
Journal Article Journal of Mechanical Design · March 1, 2023 Featured Publication Spanning knowledge group boundaries is both a source of and barrier to design performance and innovation. Objects - from prototypes to kanban boards - are frequently used in cross-functional design practice, but their associated outcomes appear varied and ... Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
Stanford University ·
2022
M.A.
Stanford University ·
2022
Ph.D.
Stanford University ·
2018
M.S.
Ohio State University ·
2009
B.S.