Eric Brubaker

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.