Monday, December 7: Gordon Krauss
Gordon Krauss is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Engineering Design, Harvey Mudd College. Prof. Krauss is the organizing committee chair of the Mudd Design Workshops and also a program committee member of the inaugural Canadian Design Workshop.
Tuesday, December 8: Robin Adams
Dr. Adams is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award, teaching and leadership awards, best paper awards (including Design Studies and Journal of Engineering Education), and engages broadly in multiple communities. She seeks to empirically develop “languages for learning” in areas central to engineering practice – cross-disciplinarity and design. A language of learning describes what it means to know, be able to do, or be as a professional and how these change over time and through experience. It provides tools for learners to reflect upon and self-assess their own progress, teachers to design and assess learning experiences, and leaders to take action in shaping engineering education programs and policies. As an example, she conducted engineering education research to understand pathways for developing innovation expertise in a global consumer-product Fortune 500 company, resulting in a highly successful multi-year professional development program. She also designed and hosted the 10th Design Thinking Research Symposium where researchers from around the globe and different disciplines conducted studies using a shared dataset of design review conversations in different design domains (mechanical engineering, service learning, choreography, product design, and entrepreneurship). Studies ranged from understanding design practices and design teaching to the ways instructors support students in becoming professionals. This resulted in an edited book, Analyzing Design Review Conversations, and special issues of Design Studies and Co-Design. Dr. Adams is also a leader in building capacity in engineering education. She led the Institute for Scholarship on Engineering Education as part of the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, played a leadership role in developing the first U.S. PhD program in engineering education at Purdue University, and was an invited participant to the National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Education symposium series. Currently, Dr. Adams is a Professor in the School of Engineering Education at Purdue University, and teaches graduate level courses on design cognition and learning, undergraduate courses in interdisciplinary design, and participates in an innovation, leadership, and transformation program. She received degrees in education (PhD), materials science and engineering (MS), and mechanical engineering (BS), and worked as a senior designer in industry.
Wednesday, December 9: Carlos Cardoso
Carlos is an Associate Professor at the College of Design, Iowa State University, United States. His research interests are in the area of creative thinking, design cognition, design methodology and systems thinking. He adopts an interdisciplinary approach to studying how to support and inspire designers to think more creatively about global (wicked) problems, and not just artifacts or services. Carlos teaches and coordinates design courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Prior to moving to Iowa (in 2018), Carlos was Assistant Professor of design theory and methodology at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Carlos did his Ph.D. in human-centered design at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. He has been a frequent reviewer for several scientific journals, presented his research in different conferences, and published his work in engineering and design journals.