"Embrace change...and design for it."
These words were spoken by Barbara Beskind, who at 90 years old, is working at IDEO and giving feedback in the design of new products in the Silicon Valley. I just love everything she had to say on npr here . Wow. Talk about inspiring. We all change and our situations all change, but the important thing is to problem solve and design for this change. Here is a video about IDEO "in a word…" As I begin a new semester with a new group of students, I try to emphasize from the beginning the engineering-design process and how we can use it to solve problems. I have them go online and study the myriad of engineering-design process images on Google images and then have them compare them, looking at similarities, differences, unique and outstanding characteristics. They then work in pairs to create their own version of the engineering-design process. Through this, I hope they learn that there are multiple perspectives and pathways to design and create w...