ISD and Mechanical Engineering Partner to Host NU Manufacturing Scholar at Wu Distinguished Lectureship ISD and the Department of Mechanical Engineering collaborated on Sept. 9 to host the Wu Distinguished Lectureship, welcoming Dr. Jian Cao of Northwestern University. Dr. Cao, who is the Cardiss Collins Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director, Northwestern Initiative on Manufacturing … Read more
Professor Art Hyde, Program Director for ISD’s Automotive Engineering program, was recently featured on NPR’s Morning Edition. In the segment, “To fully embrace electric vehicles, the auto industry must adjust its workforce,” Professor Hyde talks about future competition in the auto industry, and what is needed to ensure students are prepared.
Our discipline is Integrative Systems + Design. What does that mean to you? If you’re drawing out a map and you’ve got a bunch of different disciplines and you’re talking about a big multidisciplinary project, you’ve got the mechanical structure of a car, you’ve got the electrical system, you’ve got the controls, you’ve got all … Read more
Professor Miki Banu, recently recognized with the Collegiate Research Professorship Award from the U-M Office of the Vice President for Research, draws inspiration from her industrious hometown in her efforts to improve society. Professor Miki Banu, Associate Chair of Doctoral Education and Research for the division of Integrative Systems + Design, hails from the city … Read more
ISD Doctoral Candidate Jesse Velleu Pursues His Dream of Researching Rigorous New Measures to Improve Products Jesse Velleu has a simple message for consumer product designers: Design products for the right reasons. “Lots of times products are designed for the wrong reasons,” said Velleu, a doctoral candidate in the Design Science Program, Integrative Systems + … Read more
Dr. Diann Brei, Dr. Bogdan Epureanu, and Dr. Kate Whitefoot Earn Awards at the 2022 ASME IDETC/CIE Conference in August ISD was well represented during the ASME International Design and Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE), Aug. 14-17, 2022, in St. Louis, MO. Three individuals with ISD connections earned major … Read more
Our discipline is Integrative Systems + Design. What does that mean to you? Simply put, it means the ability to recognize who my real customers are. Unlike some ecosystem theories that rely on identifying all stakeholders who are touched by or play a role in a given experience, Integrative Systems + Design gives you the tools … Read more
Our discipline is Integrative Systems + Design. What does that mean to you? In Integrative Systems + Design, it’s really a mindset of how to see the world and what the world can be. I really see the integrative piece is important in terms of bringing together different ways of thinking about opportunities, and what … Read more
Our discipline is Integrative Systems + Design. What does that mean to you? The field of ISD to me means being able to design and develop a part or a component that you’re working on which will flawlessly or easily blend with the whole system or integrate with the whole system. Why is the field … Read more
Our discipline is Integrative Systems + Design. What does that mean to you? It means taking all the components of various disciplines and finding sustainable, equitable solutions for various problems. Being an engineering teacher, I teach a lot of high school students the design problem and how to really focus on solving what is the … Read more