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May 2024
It is easy for Michael Miller to recount the most important lesson he learned in Northwestern's MBA + MS in Design Innovation (MMM) program. It's a skill he leverages every day as a program manager at Google.
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May 2024
Segal Design Certificate students collaborated with scientists at the Shedd Aquarium to design 'Gastropops,' fake shells that will help researchers measure how often marine predators, like lobsters and stingrays, eat shelled creatures.
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May 2024
Courtney Welton helps guide curriculum alignment for the MPD2 program in addition to her work promoting compliance, ethics, and transformation at Allstate.
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May 2024
DTC students collaborated with Shirley Ryan AbilityLab to design a solution to prevent broken dynamometers.
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May 2024
Lindsay Lipschultz (EDI ‘24) shares how her experience as a design coach for undergraduate students enhanced her professional skill set.
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May 2024
DTC student teams work to improve Envision Unlimited’s adaptive cycling program.
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April 2024
Blending human-centered design research and methodologies with a strategic focus on creative problem solving, Dan Brown helps MaDE students seek, conceive, and create compelling solutions for the marketplace.
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April 2024
Rahul Srivathsa’s company was born just as his MMM experience began. He shares how the program helped get his business off the ground and focus it for future success.
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April 2024
Ritika Ramesh shared her experiences and knowledge with undergraduate students as part of EDI's design coaching program.
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April 2024
Author and engineering professor Deb Chachra challenges students to rethink infrastructure design.
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April 2024
The program's leadership team provides answers about the application process, the course structure, and the capstone course.
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April 2024
Akito Kashiwai credits the MMM program with giving him the needed support to create a startup aimed at changing how small food-service businesses find funding.
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April 2024
James Conley’s MPD2 class focuses on the importance for product designers to legally safeguard the thoughts and plans that lead to profitable goods and services.
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March 2024
Accenture Song global chief strategy officer Baiju Shah discusses leadership and what it takes to remain relevant in his Growth Innovation course.
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March 2024
Zach Jaffe brought his startup experience to the MMM program and is using it to foster the enthusiasm on campus for entrepreneurship and venture capital.
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March 2024
Dan Butt combined inspiration from his newborn child with skills he learned in the EDI program to chart a new course for his professional future.
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March 2024
Christina Whitehouse leaned on her MPD2 education to create the app that allows cyclists to report bike-lane hazards and has prompted city action to promote a safer environment for bikers.
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March 2024
Scott Tsangeos leans on his MMM lessons and the opportunities the program provides to build his strength-training app into a powerhouse in the fitness community.
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March 2024
Ayla Commet is applying the lessons she learned in the MPD2 program to her new job as a senior product manager at Digital Diagnostics, where she is using artificial intelligence to help diagnose eye and skin diseases.
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March 2024
EDI students Patrick Giavelli and Kallie Mingay spent their summers advancing a developing technology at startup Vaulterra that could help reduce the impact of climate change.
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February 2024
Oleg Evdokimov uses the lessons he learned from the MPD2 program to teach the pros and cons of artificial intelligence to Northwestern students — and his children.
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February 2024
Marissa Noboa shares how the MMM program set her up for what has proven to be a successful and diverse career in brand leadership.
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February 2024
Two EDI students reflect on their experience creating Summer Studio, a place for student designers working in the healthcare industry to find connection and community.
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February 2024
Will Hubbard and Marty Ringlein teach the introductory course in the MPD2 program and sharpen the entrepreneurial focus for the new students.
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February 2024
Microsoft's Mike Edmonds received the 2023 Cole-Higgins Award for Excellence in Teaching for his work teaching Mindful Product Management in Northwestern's MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program.
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February 2024
David Schatz-Mizrahi shares how the EDI program prepared him for his summer internship helping startup SteadyScrib develop its product to enable those with Parkinson’s uncontrollable tremors to once again write.
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January 2024
Sky Lalwani's internship at Amazon gave him the chance to leverage lessons learned in Northwestern's MBA + MS Design Innovation (MMM) program to help solve a financial problem.
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January 2024
Author and educator Lesley-Ann Noel breaks down her book, "Design Social Change," for Northwestern students.
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January 2024
Tamara Gutverg shares insights from her internship experience at toymaker Mattel, planning for the next generation of dolls while being immersed in a cultural tidal wave.
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January 2024
Elisa Vargas and JoEllen Kames are leading MPD2’s Customer-Driven Opportunities course for the first time, but the duo have a long-standing professional connection outside the classroom.
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January 2024
Lucas Iezzi reflects on his internship experience making animatronic characters for theme parks with LF Studios and how the EDI program is shaping his approach to design innovation.
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January 2024
Segal Design Certificate alumnus Bill Yen is the lead author on new research developing a new fuel cell that harvests energy from microbes living in dirt.
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January 2024
Karley Woods looks back on how the MMM program helped prepare her for success during her summer internship with Nike.
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January 2024
New Industry Advisory Board Member Garry Cooper shares the Northwestern roots of his company Rheaply and why he’s excited to be a part of the MPD2 program.
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January 2024
Inspired by the Bay Area Immersion program, Chicago Design Immersion marks a departure from campus-based classes, offering a hands-on exploration of Chicago’s vibrant design story and its makers.
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December 2023
The program's Alumni Group helps cultivate deeper engagement between former students and those currently in the program.
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December 2023
Kevin Petty looks back on his internship with Activision and how the MMM program helped prepare him for success with the maker of the popular video game series.
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December 2023
Patrick Giavelli leverages EDI education and Northwestern’s academic, research, and entrepreneurial resources to steer the founding and development of a promising green tech company.
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December 2023
Chris Rowe is the newest member of the MPD2 Industry Advisory Board. He shares his insights on how creating new offerings is changing and how the MPD2 program is successful at producing graduates who make a difference.
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December 2023
A quintet of summer interns brought the program’s human-centered design approach to the financial institution.
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November 2023
Intech Systems Managing Director Deval Parikh (MMM ‘99) talks about how he leveraged his MMM education to develop a business philosophy that has led to multiple massive success stories.
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November 2023
Karina Patel’s experience in Segal design courses drives her contributions in the theater world.
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November 2023
MPD2’s culminating class was updated for this school year. Learn why the change was made and what it will look like for students.
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November 2023
Discover how alumni benefited from the program's emphasis on design, product management, and business.
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November 2023
International student Maanil Dodani ’25 recounts his first few months in the design-centric MBA program, and how supportive career coaches and peers are helping him chart a career pivot.
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October 2023
Sherry Xu (EDI ‘24) discusses her EDI Design Sprint project and the importance of user research to her success working with Uber Freight.
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October 2023
Michael Chen shares how instrumental the MMM program was to his career growth and his ability to create innovative workflow products at Asana.
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October 2023
Rick Hoobler discusses the EDI class he teaches and how his own career experiences demonstrate the way the important link develops between a company and its creations.
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October 2023
Connie Meyer discusses why she finds excitement in negotiating and conflict resolution and how she will approach teaching those skills for the first time to MPD2 students.
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September 2023
Rising MaDE senior Pratham Bansal turned a design class project into an internship opportunity in the electrical vehicle industry.
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September 2023
Annie Thomas (EDI ‘23) discusses her Thesis project journey and how she arrived at the framework for a stop-motion animation kit for children.
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September 2023
A team of four MaDE students designed winter boots that can expand up to three sizes, tentatively called Sno-Gro Boots.
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September 2023
Leveraging their undergraduate experience at Northwestern Engineering, MaDE students Harrison Brooks and Cameron Briskin teamed up to create Fourth Down, a card game that recreates the excitement of the sport while promoting connection between players.
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September 2023
Adam Putterman's MMM experience made it possible to found OURS, a company financially backed by Serena Williams’ fund Serena Ventures that is trying to remove the stigma surrounding couples looking for help in their relationship.
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September 2023
Segal faculty members Mike Edmonds and Chamille Lescott were named winners of the 2023 Cole-Higgins Awards for outstanding teaching and advising.
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September 2023
Students in the MMM program’s Research-Design-Build course talked about their experience helping one of the world’s largest diamond retailers create lasting connections to its customers.
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September 2023
A collaborative event brought more than 60 EDI students and alumni together to start the school year, learn from one another, and experience the program's vibrant design innovation community.
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September 2023
MPD2 students presented their final projects to classmates, faculty, and venture capitalists.
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September 2023
Logan Groover leverages the lessons learned from the MMM program to play the role of impressionist at e-commerce giant Wayfair.
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September 2023
Summer field research trips gave Segal students a unique opportunity to practice human-centered design outside the classroom.
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August 2023
Autumn Basinger’s (EDI ‘23) thesis project aims to create a digital community to keep furniture from winding up in a landfill.
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August 2023
Geetha Somayajula (MMM '24) shares how she applied lessons learned in MMM to win the Kellogg Design Challenge and help Nissan reimagine global transportation.
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August 2023
Samantha Soloway talks about her road from teacher to product innovator and how she saw the need for human-centered design well before she started her MPD2 journey.
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August 2023
Segal students have secured spots on this year’s Chicago-specific Forbes ’30 Under 30’ list.
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August 2023
The Trees That Feed Foundation worked with first-year Design Thinking and Communication students to see how the breadfruit drying and refining process could be improved for this important culinary staple.
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July 2023
Alexandra Andreiu (EDI ‘23) talks about her thesis project and developing a framework for a digital platform to help parents going through loss from miscarriages and stillbirths.
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July 2023
David Du’s EDI thesis project aims to provide common ground among the distrust between creatives and artificial intelligence.
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July 2023
MPD2 students talk about their ongoing capstone project experience and the journey from ambiguity to a well-defined goal of creating an app to help parents of children with food allergies.
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June 2023
Bryanna Benicia (EDI ‘23) explains why doing acoustic research was a key component of her internship with office furniture company Steelcase — and how it prepared her for life after EDI.
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June 2023
NASCAR's upcoming Chicago street race will pose new challenges for race car engineers according to Mike Beltran, senior lecturer at Segal and adviser to Northwestern University's formula racing team.
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June 2023
Wilson Beebe (MPD2' 22), talks about how the MPD2 program helped accelerate his career and prepared him for his current role as manager of design for the disruptive innovation incubator at SC Johnson.
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June 2023
Paige Hendersen (EDI ‘22) talks about how her mindset and skill sets shifted during her time in the EDI program and how that prepared her to become a design researcher at Sylver Consulting.
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June 2023
Through a life cycle assessment of existing medical kits, Jennifer Dunn and Northwestern design and engineering students unlock opportunities to improve sustainability in the healthcare sector.
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June 2023
A Segal Design Certificate student team earned third place in the Natural Sciences and Engineering category for their poster presentation at the Northwestern Undergraduate Research Expo.
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June 2023
A renowned researcher, entrepreneur, educator, and alumnus, Schuh will join Northwestern from MIT.
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May 2023
Segal students and faculty launched two podcasts, "Technical Difficulties" and "To Be Designed," which amplify underrepresented voices in tech and explore the art, ethics, and psychology behind design.
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May 2023
EDI student Clark Mitchell spent the summer interning with United Airlines to help improve the company's signage system at airports across the country.
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May 2023
EDI students begin the program by getting hands-on experience with real product innovation projects sponsored by Procter & Gamble.
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May 2023
A new app from Christina Whitehouse is making bike lanes safer in urban settings.
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April 2023
Four student teams from Design Thinking and Communication proposes ideas to modernize the University Registrar’s office.
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April 2023
Get an inside look at what each EDI student created for their final Thesis projects.
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April 2023
MPD2 students’ bicycle-safety capstone project highlights the importance of following where the research leads when developing new products.
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March 2023
Elizabeth Jacobsen (MPD2 ‘20) took advantage of a unique alumni opportunity to continue developing her skills while working as a global technical sustainability director for the health and wellness platform at Mars.
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March 2023
EDI’s Design Research course helped new students learn the foundation for human-centered design and develop ideas to promote care and independence.
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March 2023
Badri worked at Apple for nine months and gained confidence during the experience.
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March 2023
Students in the MMM program’s Equity Centered Design class partnered with a Chicago group to help seal recently-digitized sensitive information.
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March 2023
MMM course’s new instructors focus on creating digital designers with the ability to build bridges to the world of software engineers and developers.
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March 2023
Segal Design Certificate student Izzy Mokotoff and biomedical engineering student Alexis Chan share story behind SteadyScrib on WGN News.
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March 2023
SteadyScrib, a startup led by Segal Design Certificate student Izzy Mokotoff and biomedical engineering student Alexis Chan, is developing a unique pen and clipboard set that negates the effects of shaking and tremors in Parkinson's patients when writing.
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March 2023
Jayadev Kalla talks about how the MPD2 program helped him find the type of job he once thought was beyond his reach.
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March 2023
Auston Ferrarer’s summer work with Johnson & Johnson led to a full-time job with the company, which he'll start after hiking the Appalachian Trail.
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February 2023
Segal Design Certificate student Izzy Mokotoff and cofounder Alexis Chan invented SteadyScrib, a special pen and clipboard set that helps people with Parkinson’s disease write again.
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February 2023
Erik Didriksen talks about how MPD2 helped him rethink product management and how he grew during his time in the program.
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February 2023
MMM program’s co-director talks about how the program is able to create graduates ready to make a difference in the business world.
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February 2023
Segal Fellow Thomas F. DeFrantz will use funding from the Mellon Foundation to explore how Black dance matters, furthering efforts to champion underrepresented voices.
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January 2023
The award, donated by the family of emeritus faculty member Masahiro “Mike” Meshii, honors excellence in design education.
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January 2023
Sydney Bernstein talks about how the EDI program helped prepare her to work at IA Collaborative and how she approaches her work through human-centered design.
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January 2023
Author Arshay Cooper told his life story in celebration of the launch of Northwestern Engineering's Personal Development StudioLab, a space where students develop and practice their life approach.
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January 2023
Thomas Gibbons helps fill MPD2 students’ conflict-resolution toolbox with a variety of skills he, himself, has needed during his career as a journalist, lawyer, and arbiter.
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January 2023
Five EDI graduates work together at Milwaukee Tool, helping create innovative tools and worksite solutions while implementing the human-centered design skills they honed at Northwestern.
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January 2023
The MPD2 Business Model Design course gives students a toolkit to create and manage the things consumers want – and are willing to pay for.
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December 2022
Alumni returned to campus this fall to interact with current students and share how the program made a difference in their lives and their careers.
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December 2022
EDI Director Amy O'Keefe looks back on the program's 15th anniversary and ahead to her hopes for the program's future.
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November 2022
Launched in 2002, when human-centered design was only beginning to pop up in academia, MaDE pioneered the idea of a design-centric degree at a top engineering school and celebrates its 20th year in 2022 as one of the nation’s few accredited manufacturing and design engineering programs – and the only one found at an elite Research I institution.
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November 2022
Saranga Arora’s summer internship helped shape her career goals for when she graduates from the MMM program.
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November 2022
The Segal Design Institute welcomed six new faculty members, advisers, and instructors to its community this fall. The group brings a range of expertise in areas including strategic design thinking, environmental design, and UX, and will support Segal’s mission of empowering the next generation of design innovators.
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November 2022
The final talks in the Design at the Intersections series encouraged participants to consider how design intersects with neuroscience and biomedical engineering, and improvisational dance performance.
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November 2022
Anna Mollenkopf (MPD2 ‘17) weaves a web connecting the ecommerce company's R&D teams to help create and launch products.
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October 2022
A new MMM course looks at an often overlooked element in human centered design in an effort to address current social inequities.
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October 2022
Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) alumni Alyssa Brown and Erica Isaacs are sharing their perspective on design research with students in EDI and the Segal Design Institute.
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October 2022
Dahlia Haynes’ credits her time in Northwestern Engineering's MPD2 program with helping get her where she is today — which happens to be working in Malaysia for SC Johnson.
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October 2022
Tobias Wyler’s summer internship allowed him to apply lessons learned in MMM to help improve the sanitation situation in slums in Nairobi.
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October 2022
Soudy Khan (MPD2 '20) has spent three decades focused on user experience, but it was his experience in MPD2 that helped him find a new appreciation for the field.
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October 2022
Rising young innovators from Segal are making a mark in Chicago’s entrepreneurship community.
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September 2022
Recent graduates from the dual-degree program thought back to their time as prospective students and explained why MMM appealed to them.
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September 2022
Jake Erichson leaned on his MMM lessons during his summer work on an app designed to make life easier for math teachers.
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August 2022
Danielle Ma (MMM '22) is applying the focus on human-centered design she learned in MMM into her work at Microsoft, where she's leading consumer insights for the Minecraft franchise.
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August 2022
René Peters talks about how his time with the MMM program helped him on the road to unveiling NVIDIA’s potentially life-changing Project Aurora.
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August 2022
MMM students helped Bank of America reimagine the post-pandemic banking experience for their Business Innovation Lab (BIL) project.
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August 2022
Kelli Palm (MPD2 ‘19) talks about how her career and graduate school lessons intersected to help make her more effective at Zimmer Biomet.
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August 2022
Roni Greenberg’s Thesis project focused on an app designed to break the downward spiral of mental illness linked to and worsened by smartphone use.
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August 2022
Director Jim Wicks explained what excites him about the program's new board and how he hopes they can help students differentiate themselves in the marketplace.
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August 2022
Georgios Skoufalos (EDI '16) turned his time in the EDI program into a pathway to help focus product designs to alleviate people’s struggles.
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August 2022
Recent EDI graduates reflect on the opportunity to work directly with Jiobit to help discover a potentially new audience segment.
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July 2022
On June 15 – 17, Northwestern hosted the 2022 Future of Design in Higher Education convening, a gathering of design innovation faculty from across the country who care deeply about making design education better.
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July 2022
In DSGN 297-1: Wireframing and App Design Basics and DSGN 297: Manufacturing Basics, students develop complex design skills in half the time.
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July 2022
Sammy Wang (MPD2 '17) leans on her MPD2 experiences to help communicate the high-tech innovation behind some of P&G’s most popular brands.
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June 2022
Former Northwestern running back Jesse Brown (EDI ‘22) talks about how his experiences as an athlete inspired him to design a product for patients to stick with their physical therapy programs.
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June 2022
In DSGN 395: Performance and Technology, students collaborate across disciplines to create technologically enhanced, movement-based performances.
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June 2022
Joshua Childs (MPD2 '20) talks about how Northwestern Engineering's Master of Product Design and Development (MPD2) program helped him kick start his career and grow as a leader with Validity Inc.
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June 2022
For her Thesis project, Kayli Fradin (EDI '22) developed a new, safer way for people to meet online.
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June 2022
Paige Hendersen (EDI '22) created an environmentally friendly subscription arts-and-crafts service for children for her Thesis in Northwestern's Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program.
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June 2022
During spring quarter Design at the Intersections talks, faculty pairs discussed challenges and opportunities facing designers across disciplines.
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June 2022
The MPD2 program helped Justin Zupnick (MPD2 '18) find new direction for his career and prepared him for his current innovative role at a progressive health benefits provider.
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May 2022
During Northwestern’s fourth annual Iron Pour, students, faculty, and staff participated in a centuries-old manufacturing process.
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May 2022
At VentureCat, Northwestern's annual student startup competition, the 2022 grand prize went to InfernoGuard LLC, founded by Segal MaDE student Kevin Kaspar.
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May 2022
Students in Northwestern Engineering’s Design, Technology, and Research (DTR) program earned top awards in the Undergraduate Category at the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) 2022 Student Research Competition held in New Orleans.
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May 2022
Ryan Lee (MMM '16) talks about how Northwestern's MMM program prepared him for his work as senior director of product management with Hologram, an Internet of Things startup.
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May 2022
Discover why the 145-year-old pasta company continues to turn to students in Northwestern's MMM program for guidance in design thinking and human-centered design.
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May 2022
Three graduates from Northwestern Engineering's Master of Product Design and Development Management (MPD2) program explain why it's important for them to help current and future students.
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April 2022
Get an inside look at what each of the EDI students created for their final Thesis projects.
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April 2022
Northwestern Engineering’s Michael Beltran is one of five Northwestern faculty members being honored with the 2022 University Teaching Awards. The annual recognition is given to professors who demonstrate excellence and innovation in undergraduate teaching.
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April 2022
Bridget McMullan (MPD2 '17) is using her MPD2 knowledge to meet member needs as director of product strategy at Anthem, America’s largest for-profit health insurer.
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April 2022
MPD2 students spend almost a year creating a product they think can impact the public and attract customer interest.
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April 2022
Director Jim Wicks talks about changes to the Master of Product Design and Development Management (MPD2) program curriculum and how they will help students thrive now and in the future.
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April 2022
Students in Northwestern’s Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program demonstrate breadth and depth of their design innovation craft through individual thesis projects that illuminate each student’s unique skills as a hybrid designer.
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April 2022
MMM Co-Director Greg Holderfield talks about the unique elements of Business Innovation Lab, the culminating course in a student's MMM experience.
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April 2022
Students in Northwestern's Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program collaborated with the company known for its Roomba® vacuum cleaner to address new business opportunities.
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April 2022
Nicole Cuervo (MMM '22) is leveraging the lessons she's learned in Northwestern's MMM program to launch Springrose, her own company that produces adaptive, attractive, and comfortable bras designed specifically for women with upper mobility restrictions.
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April 2022
EDI advisory board member Kevin Bethune’s new book, Reimagining Design, reflects the optimism he brings to design during times of exponential change.
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March 2022
Robin Soffer helps students in Northwestern Engineering's Master of Product Design and Development Management (mpd²) program understand that 'accounting is the language of business.'
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March 2022
The three co-instructors of one of the EDI program's foundational courses talk about the unique setup of their class and how it mirrors life in the design industry.
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March 2022
Embracing the lessons of design thinking and communication, Chen (BS ’24) and Medical Makers teammates are applying principles of human-centered design to developing wearable technology capable of predicting the release of bodily waste in patients with incontinence.
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March 2022
A trio of DTC students volunteered for an extracurricular project with Byline Bank. As a result, they learned more about human-centered design and themselves.
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March 2022
Yao Shi (EDI '14) shares her experience as a senior product designer at Uber Freight and the skills she believes are necessary to be effective in her role.
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February 2022
The Design Communication and Methods course helps students in Northwestern’s Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program apply design thinking to career exploration activities and assets.
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February 2022
Steph Manuel (MMM '19) shares how MMM prepared him to launch TrueFiktion in an effort to redesign how people understand and relate to American history.
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February 2022
Stephen Chang (MMM ‘21), a product manager at startup Plato, reflected on his recent experience leading a design sprint to help brainstorm new growth opportunities for the company.
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February 2022
Jim Wicks, mpd² program director, shares what inspires him about Northwestern Engineering's Master of Product Design and Development Management (mpd²) program and what has him excited for the future.
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February 2022
Adjunct lecturer Helen von den Steinen explains how a relationship between Procter & Gamble and Northwestern's Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program gives students first-hand experience with human-centered design.
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February 2022
SueSan Chen (EDI ‘18) shares how they apply human-centered design principles learned in Northwestern's Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program to large-scale projects at United Airlines.
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February 2022
Amber Hall (mpd² ‘20) is changing how we interact with our home, starting with the bath. She shares how Northwestern Engineering's Master of Product Design and Development Management (mpd²) program gave her the product development skills to inspire the future.
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February 2022
Claire Henderson (MMM ‘18) shares how Northwestern’s MMM Program prepared her to lead the innovation team at Zillow.
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January 2022
Applying his Differentiation by Design process, Segal Design Institute clinical professor Dan Brown invented a face shield, for rapid mass production, that can be clipped to any baseball cap.
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January 2022
Entrepreneur Sophia Wennstedt (MMM ‘22) shares how blip energy got started and explains the value of the company's first product, the blipOne smart battery.
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December 2021
Alumni from Northwestern's Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program hosted an informal reunion to share their own experiences with current EDI students.
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December 2021
The Design at the Intersections series, hosted by Segal Design Institute, brings together faculty from Northwestern Engineering to discuss interdisciplinary opportunities within design and engineering.
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December 2021
Adam Attas (MMM ‘18) explains how he's leveraged human-centered design principles at Fortune 100 companies and now as a product manager at a startup venture studio.
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November 2021
Current second quarter students check in about the highlights from their introduction to MMM and what they're looking forward to most about the rest of their time in the program.
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November 2021
Rohan Bhatt (MMM '22) has always been a creative person. Thanks to Northwestern's MMM program, he is learning to use that creativity to drive impact and create change.
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October 2021
First-year students in the EDI program were inspired by Alice in Wonderland as part of their Design Boot Camp orientation workshop.
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October 2021
Steelcase VP of Global Design and Product Engineering James Ludwig talks about his innovative Brand and Design Leadership course for students in Northwestern's Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program.
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October 2021
Nicholas Daniel Phillips (EDI '17) and Sergio Marquina (EDI '17) launched Studio 2133 after spending two years as classmates in Northwestern's Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program.
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October 2021
On October 20, 2021, Northwestern Engineering's Bruce Ankenman and Todd Murphey discussed how humans and machines need to communicate, sometimes using nonverbal and/or emergent aspects of communication, leaving flexibility for the human. Watch the recording.
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October 2021
EDI Co-Director Amy O'Keefe explains why collaboration is critical to the success of any service designer, whether they are working alongside their teammates or through a computer screen.
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October 2021
Segal Design Institute's Design Intersections Series is a new event series that explores the intersections between design and engineering. During the first event in the series on October 14, 2021, Northwestern Engineering's Michael Peshkin and David Gatchell spoke about their experiences with design-engineering teams and clients, what talents and engineering skills team members bring, what happened, and what went awry. Watch the event recording,
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September 2021
Leah Marcus (MMM '13) had a transformative experience as a student in Northwestern Engineering's MMM program. Today, she is a business design director at IDEO and back at MMM, where she teaches as an adjunct lecturer.
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September 2021
Kyron Whitfield (MMM '22) dreams of using technology to create innovative solutions that positively impact underrepresented communities. He turned to the MMM program to help make his dream a reality.
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September 2021
Casey Ankeny, Steven Franconeri, Victor Lefevre, Jill Wilson, and Kiki Zissimopoulos received the awards
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September 2021
Lucy Hu (EDI '20) discusses the pandemic, its impact on her EDI Thesis Project, and her professional work as a product designer for a company that created a COVID-19 PCR test.
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September 2021
Mengxue Bi (EDI '21) discusses her EDI thesis project and how she hopes to improve knowledge and understanding between clinicians in a hospital's ICU and the families of patients being cared for.
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September 2021
Five Northwestern students, including one Segal Design Certificate student, were recognized by Chicago Inno during a year of unprecedented growth in Chicago’s tech scene.
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August 2021
Shubhendra Agrawal (MMM '21) was drawn to MMM because of the intersection of business and design thinking. He recently reflected on the most important lessons he took away from the transformative program.
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July 2021
Pam Daniels, clinical associate professor at the Segal Design Institute, was recently featured during a segment of America By Design. A creative, collaborative leader with global experience in human-centered design and organizational development, Daniels spoke with designer Scott Henderson about visual measuring cups and spoons.
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July 2021
EDI Program Director Jim Wicks reflects on how COVID-19 has introduced new industries and countless leaders to the value of design thinking.
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June 2021
The Segal Design Institute congratulates the class of 2021. Read letters to graduates from Segal Co-Director Kim Hoffman, Manufacturing and Design Engineering Program Director David Gatchell, and Segal Design Certificate Program Directors Stacy Benjamin and John Anderson.
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May 2021
Arijit Nerurkar (EDI '20) reflects on reimagining the classic Playbill® product as his thesis project for Northwestern's Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program.
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May 2021
As the popularity of product managers has increased, so too has the responsibility they must take for their creations, says MMM and EDI adjunct lecturer Mike Edmonds.
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May 2021
Diana Jeong Ro (EDI '20) talks about her Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) thesis project and her attempt to help overcome anxiousness about math.
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May 2021
Stephanie Baranovic (MMM '19) talks about what appealed to her about MMM and how her experiences in the program directly influenced her role and responsibilities today.
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May 2021
Jean Jiang (EDI '20) explored why users felt discouraged from playing online games for her EDI thesis project and designed a solution that promotes fair play and inclusivity.
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May 2021
For her Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) thesis, Kelly McComas (EDI '20) explored how libraries can become better outlets for people who do not take advantage of their vast amount of resources.
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April 2021
Yifan Wu (EDI '20) brought together a passion for reptiles and knowledge learned in Northwestern's Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program to create a state-of-the-art smart home habitat for pets.
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April 2021
Courtney Weldon (MMM '21) talks about having knowledge developed in MMM be applicable to almost everything she does now.
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April 2021
Kristen Smith (EDI '20) reflects on their thesis project for Northwestern's Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program and how they are looking to reinvent the problem-solving process.
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April 2021
Chris Baggott (EDI '20) looks back on his EDI thesis project and the impact he hopes it can have on intensive care units.
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March 2021
Greater Good Studio Co-Founder George Aye shares the motivation behind this new course.
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February 2021
Bianca Deslouches (MMM '19) talks about her new role as director of innovation strategy at Daily Harvest, and how she applies the lessons learned in Northwestern Engineering's MMM program on a daily basis.
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February 2021
EDI Boot Camp invites new students to build skills and community virtually through distributed design practice.
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January 2021
Jenn Beske (MMM '15), Cam Scovil (MMM '17), and Juan Luciano (MMM '19) talk about their work at the design and innovation consultancy and the lessons they learned at Northwestern.
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January 2021
MMM students provided recommendations to Northwestern Medicine to increase ease of use of analytical dashboards.
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January 2021
Lynn Gong (MMM '18) talks about her role as a product manager at Adobe and how Northwestern Engineering's MMM program helped prepare her for the job.
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January 2021
Rei Kigoshi (MMM '21) examines why she left her job developing innovative product concepts for aircraft cabins to pursue degrees in business and design innovation.
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January 2021
The MS in Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program discusses some of the most common questions they hear from prospective students about the application process.
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January 2021
Launched in 2016, the Masahiro and Eiko Meshii Award recognizes excellence in design education. This year Professor David Gatchell, director of the Manufacturing and Design Engineering (MaDE) undergraduate degree program, was honored along with Matthew Glucksberg, professor of biomedical engineering.
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December 2020
Clinical Professor Dan Brown, director of Segal's Prototyping and Fabrication Lab and a renowned inventor, is among 175 new fellows in the 2020 class.
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September 2020
McCormick Design-A-Thon 2020, a virtual hackathon-style competition, challenged students to reimagine community in age of COVID-19. Segal students, faculty, and alumni served as mentors, moderator, and judges in the competition.
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September 2020
MMM Student Sarah Pinner (MMM ‘22) views the hybrid class experience as one that practices what MMM teaches.
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August 2020
John Hartman, clinical assistant professor in the Segal Design Institute, participated as a judge in the FourC Challenge, an international design competition sponsored by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Design. “Futurebus,” designed by an international team that includes Northwestern Engineering student Ryan Teo, won top prize.
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August 2020
Graduates of the MMM Class of 2020 share their perspectives on MMM’s impact and memories of their ‘aha’ moment in the program.
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August 2020
Dean Julio M. Ottino welcomed the new MMM cohort this summer. The following is an adaptation of his remarks.
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July 2020
The EDI alum, who currently works as Executive Design Director at Chase, recently participated in a New York City panel discussion for EDI students.
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July 2020
As the first pair of Black co-presidents to lead the Innovation and Design Association at Kellogg, Marvin Harris, Jr. (2Y 2021) and Hannah Anokye (MMM 2021) believe “that design and innovation can be leveraged to tackle societal issues that have stemmed from years of systemic inequality.”
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July 2020
McCormick students Regina Morfin and Avantika Raikar are working to help the environment via the fashion industry with sustainable textiles.
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June 2020
June 2020 Segal Graduation Newsletter
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May 2020
Three McCormick first-year students won the White Space Challenge for designing a natural air purifier that uses moss.
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May 2020
Design leaders from across industries offer guidance and input on preparing students for emerging roles in design and innovation.
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April 2020
A five-student team from Design 384 proposed a five-pile system to compost Wagner Farm’s 50-50 manure-straw waste more efficiently by introducing air through a pipe system beneath the pile.
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April 2020
Segal Design Institute faculty and staff adopt distributed design tools to deliver coursework in the wake of COVID-19.
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April 2020
Northwestern Engineering’s Design Thinking and Communication course will emphasize labor-based assessments and iteration as it transitions to remote learning this spring.
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April 2020
COVID-19 leads Segal professors Dan Brown and David Gatchell to quickly adjust the capstone project at Northwestern Engineering’s MaDE program.
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April 2020
Discover how a Northwestern EDI class helped validate the need for Chicago's new visual identity.
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April 2020
Learn more about the Thesis projects created by each graduating student from Northwestern's Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program.
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March 2020
Northwestern EDI ‘20 students recently visited Bay Area design studios and EDI alumni.
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March 2020
Northwestern EDI student Kelly McComas reflects on her experience touring startups and design studios with design innovation graduate students in NY.
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January 2020
Joanne Ting-Yu Hsu’s summer internship with Feeding America taught her to experiment and reflect more, thanks to alumnus mentor Dan Butt.
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January 2020
Working with alumna mentor Aubrey Kraft at Kaiser Permanente Design Consultancy made Alyssa Brown’s summer internship an experience to remember.
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December 2019
Northwestern University’s Master of Science in Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program celebrated the graduation of its accomplished master’s students on December 14.
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December 2019
On December 13, graduating EDI students presented their thesis projects before faculty, mentors, family, friends, and classmates at the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center.
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December 2019
The MMM Program's Design Research course taught by Amy Schwartz provides a deep dive into the human-centric element of the design thinking process.
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December 2019
Pam Daniels, a clinical associate professor with Segal Design Institute, cooks up an innovative design now sold at New York’s Museum of Modern Art store.
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November 2019
Teams representing the MMM Program took home the top prizes at the Kellogg Design Challenge in partnership with Amazon.
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November 2019
Chris Spaulding (EDI '19) interned at Milwaukee Tool over the summer where he was mentored by two EDI alumni.
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November 2019
Alumna Heather Stern discussed strategies to support gender equity in brand and design leadership as part of the Dean’s Seminar Series.
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November 2019
Morgan Lewis (MS EDI '18) designed a sneaker for her Industrial Design class and now it is available as a limited edition shoe on the Nike website.
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October 2019
To celebrate Homecoming, Segal Design Institute and the McCormick School of Engineering welcomed alumni and their families to its annual event, Prototype Purple, in the Ford Engineering Design Center.
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October 2019
A team of EDI students were honored as third place winners for an innovative menstrual cup system.
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September 2019
The Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center underwent renovations to create more spaces for collaboration and innovation.
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September 2019
The newest cohort of EDI students completed Design Boot Camp with presentations and a gallery walk in the Ford Design Studio on September 23.
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September 2019
Northwestern and Design for America alumnus Anna Blakley shares her reflection after helping to organize a panel discussion on responsible design. The event was co-hosted by LinkedIn and Design for America.
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September 2019
Fernanda Pupe Colaco (MMM '20) interned with IDEO.org over the summer. Her internship took her to Tanzania where she designed financial tools for street food vendors.
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August 2019
Visual measuring cups designed by Pam Daniels, Clinical Associate Professor with the Segal Design Institute, were featured in The New York Times.
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August 2019
Mark Carrott Odden (MMM '20) spent his summer interning with the Sephora's Innovation Lab, an opportunity that aligned with his passion for combining retail, innovation, and technology.
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August 2019
More than 100 students from schools around the country will attend the Northwestern-hosted event from August 8-11.
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July 2019
During the spring term, EDI students collaborated with 3M as part of the course DSGN 455: Design Strategy.
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July 2019
More than 100 students from schools around the country will attend the Northwestern-hosted event from August 8-11.
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July 2019
Featuring greater reliability and structural stability, NUSolar introduced its new solar car at the Formula Sun Grand Prix from July 1-6 in Austin, Texas.
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July 2019
Jim Wicks, Director of the MS EDI program, moderated a panel with representatives from Uber Health, HopeLab, and the City of Chicago before an audience of nearly one hundred people.
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July 2019
Northwestern University's MMM Program celebrated the graduation of its master's students on June 21 and 22 as part of the University's 161st Commencement.
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June 2019
Fourteen EDI students enrolled in a course called Design Sprints developed projects for industry partners, including Kraft Heinz, Lurie Children's Hospital, and Actualize Therapy.
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June 2019
The second year of the interdisciplinary class, DSGN 395-64: Leonardo, Geometry, and the Art of Manufacturing, introduced students to hands-on experiences from an iron pour to creating pieces for an art exhibit.
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June 2019
Graduates from the Manufacturing and Design Engineering (MaDE), McCormick Integrated Engineering Studies (MIES), and Segal Design Certificate programs attended a reception hosted by the Segal Design Institute.
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June 2019
Students in the MMM Program spent the winter term collaborating with Discover Global Network and Half Acre Beer Company as part of Business Innovation Lab, the program's capstone course.
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June 2019
Northwestern Engineering students continue to delight Shedd Aquarium scientists year after year with innovative, collaborative solutions to important challenges.
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May 2019
Christy Zhang, Hanna Lauterbach, and Chris Spaulding (EDI '19) will represent their startup called Maya in VentureCat, an event celebrating Northwestern's most promising student-founded startups.
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April 2019
Baiju Shah, chief strategy officer for Accenture Interactive and global lead at Fjord, gave the talk “Design and Strategy: What’s Next?” as part of the Segal Design Leadership Series on April 17.
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April 2019
Students came together for the first-ever MMM Innovation Day on April 12 to hear different perspectives about fostering design innovation in business.
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April 2019
Each graduating student from the Engineering Design Innovation program completed a thesis project with support from faculty and industry mentors.
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April 2019
Working with Professor Bill Miller and researchers, four Design 384 students helped design a power system for the Array of Things sensor network useable in a prairie setting to collect environmental information.
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April 2019
A startup created by three Northwestern students won $10,000 at the 2019 SXSW PitchTexas Competition on March 8.
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April 2019
Shah will visit campus on April 17 to discuss how design can promote the fusion of creativity and science and lead to breakthroughs.
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March 2019
Pam Daniels, a Clinical Assistant Professor with the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern, was a finalist for the 2019 Global Innovations Awards for product design at the International Home + Housewares Show earlier this month.
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March 2019
Northwestern students competed in the AbbVie Innovation Challenge on March 6, with a team consisting of three MMM students and a Kellogg MBA student placing first.
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March 2019
Twenty-four students from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Segal Design Institute’s EDI program teamed up for Design + Law, an event that focused on design thinking as a problem-solving approach for legal service delivery.
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March 2019
Master of Science in Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) students worked with the City of Chicago to explore new ways for residents to engage with city services.
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March 2019
Robbie Sutkay and Layon Costa are applying the skills they have learned from the MMM Program to the Zell Fellows Program.
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March 2019
Meet the three newest faculty members at Northwestern to have joined the Design Research Cluster: Jessica Hullman, Noshir Contractor, and Nicholas Diakopoulos.
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February 2019
In 2015, EDI students collaborated with the consumer products company to design a direct-to-consumer service called Tide Spin. Procter & Gamble announced it will roll out a version of the service to 2,000 locations by next year.
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February 2019
Twelve EDI students traveled to Boston for the annual Integrated Design Innovation (IDI) Challenge to connect with master's students from peer programs and present work to Feeding America.
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February 2019
During the fall 2018 term, students in MMM's Research-Design-Build course partnered with DICK'S Sporting Goods and Lowe's Home Improvement.
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January 2019
Multimedia art projects created in the fall 2018 ‘Data as Art’ class will be on display in the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center until late February.
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December 2018
Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science celebrated the graduation of its accomplished master’s students from the Engineering Design Innovation program on Saturday, December 15.
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December 2018
Eighteen EDI students presented their thesis projects before faculty, mentors, family, friends, and classmates at the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center.
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December 2018
The two-day event featured student work from Segal Design Institute courses and programs, including the MS in Engineering Design Innovation program, Segal Design Certificate, and first-year course Design Thinking and Communication.
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December 2018
Each graduating student from the EDI program completed a thesis project with support from faculty and industry mentors. The projects spanned multiple fields of design including product, interaction, service, strategy, and user experience.
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December 2018
Three undergraduate students from Northwestern Engineering will advance to the final round of competition in the Big Ten Student Design Challenge sponsored by Herman Miller.
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December 2018
Students in the EDI program benefit from intimate conversations with alumni about how design integrates in different fields. That's important in an industry where integrated design innovation skills don’t fall easily into one job category.
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November 2018
Thirty-six teams competed in the Kellogg Design Challenge to create solutions to reduce barriers to insulin pump therapy for Medtronic.
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October 2018
Twenty students in the winter 2018 Service Design course worked with Feeding America to create solutions to distribute rescued foods from retail stores to food insecure community members.
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October 2018
“Designing a More Authentic Life” was the first lab of Chicago Ideas Week, which focused on using the design process to create a more joyful life.
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October 2018
Founded at Northwestern in 2009, the national student group was honored during the National Design Awards Gala on October 18.
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October 2018
The Masahiro and Eiko Meshii Award recognizes excellence in design education, honoring Liz Gerber this year.
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October 2018
The EDI program welcomed 19 new students from 5 countries and 15 different schools to campus for Design Boot Camp, a pre-term session.
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September 2018
This past summer, EDI students interned at Feeding America, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Microsoft, and Procter & Gamble Ventures among others. Four students share their experiences.
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September 2018
Alyssa Lorenz is a Marketing Manager with Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices in the healthcare industry. In a Q&A, she reflects on her experience in the MMM Program and how it has impacted her career.
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September 2018
This past summer, EDI students interned at Feeding America, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Microsoft, and Procter & Gamble Ventures among others. Four students share their experiences.
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September 2018
Jeanne Gatto is Director, Innovation Strategy at Baxter Healthcare Corporation in the medical devices industry. In a Q&A, she reflects on her experience in the MMM Program and how it has impacted her career.
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August 2018
Michael Chen is a Senior Product Marketing Manager with Slack in the technology industry. In a Q&A, he reflects on his experience in the MMM Program and how it has impacted his career.
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August 2018
Richard Xie (MMM '19) spent his summer interning with the National Football League, working in Media and Business Development in both New York and Shanghai.
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August 2018
EDI students developed conceptual ecosystems for the consumer robot company iRobot as part of their course DSGN 455: Design Strategy.
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July 2018
More than 100 students from 38 universities across the nation will attend the Northwestern-hosted event from August 1-5.
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July 2018
Nearly 50 student-trainers help their fellow Wildcats with the safe and effective use of equipment in the Segal Prototyping and Fabrication Lab.
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July 2018
Northwestern University's MMM Program celebrated the graduation of 58 master's students on June 22 and 23 as part of the University's 160th Commencement.
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June 2018
Thanks to a pilot course at Northwestern's Segal Design Institute, 11 Master of Science in Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) students gained a hands-on experience with Uber Freight's efforts to transform one of the nation's most critical industries.
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June 2018
This past winter, students in the MMM Program collaborated with NorthShore University HealthSystem, McDonald's, and Hormel Foods Corporation as part of the program's capstone educational experience, Business Innovation Lab.
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June 2018
Julia Savich (EDI '17) and Northwestern students with Design For America Summer Studio work to take the stress out of air travel for wheelchair users.
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June 2018
Students in Northwestern's MMM Program combine design thinking and business expertise in a collaborative initiative with Visa.
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June 2018
With a 3,000-degree furnace melting iron before them, 10 Northwestern students enrolled in a course titled Leonardo, Geometry, and the Art of Manufacturing participated in a centuries-old manufacturing process.
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May 2018
The Design, Technology, and Research course uses a new, fast-paced teaching model to empower undergraduates to lead independent computer science research projects.
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May 2018
When Gar Waterman (EDI '18) is not busy learning about human-centered design during his courses for the MS Engineering Design Innovation program, he helps run a student-led startup called PedalCell.
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May 2018
Phoebe Evans (EDI '17) is a Breakthrough Technology Process Engineer for Mars Wrigley Confectionery. In her spare time, she has developed her EDI thesis project, Gumdrop, into a market-ready product.
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May 2018
Five MMM students are getting a chance to hone their entrepreneurship skills while competing in VentureCat, an event celebrating Northwestern’s most promising student-founded startups.
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May 2018
Founded at Northwestern in 2009, Design for America has been awarded Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Award for corporate and institutional achievement.
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March 2018
In a Service Design course, 20 EDI students developed new ways for Feeding America to get food into the hands of those who need it most.
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March 2018
Alumna Hannah Chung’s company Sproutel won the Tech for a Better World Innovation Award at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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March 2018
A part of the Segal Design Leadership Series, Gilbert revealed the critical role that human-centered design has played in IBM’s transformation to become the largest design-thinking organization in the world.
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February 2018
EDI students help solve human-centered design issues for undergraduate entrepreneurs working on startup companies.
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February 2018
On January 27, seventy-seven students from Northwestern, Illinois Institute of Technology, Purdue University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago gathered on Northwestern’s Evanston campus to kick off the White Space Design Challenge.
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February 2018
Gilbert will visit campus on February 26 to discuss how IBM uses human-centered design to develop products that address today’s complex challenges.
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January 2018
Interdisciplinary course’s five final projects on display until February 26 in the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center.
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January 2018
An interdisciplinary team of graduate students from Northwestern and Oregon Health & Science University took second place in the Student Design Challenge hosted by the American Medical Informatics Association in November 2017.
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January 2018
Each graduating student from the EDI program completed a thesis project with support from faculty and industry mentors. The projects spanned multiple fields of design including product, interaction, service, strategy, and user experience.
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December 2017
Insights and prototypes took flight in a MMM course called Research Design Build during the fall quarter as students partnered with United Airlines for a design innovation project.
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December 2017
On December 8 at the Ford Engineering Design Center, graduate students displayed their projects at the 2017 EDI Thesis Show, the culmination of the students' 18-month academic journey.
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December 2017
Walter Herbst, Mark C. Hersam, and Teresa K. Woodruff were elected by their peers for outstanding contributions to innovation.
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December 2017
The two-day event featured student work from several Segal Design Institute courses and programs, including the MS in Engineering Design Innovation program, student group Design for America, and first-year course Design Thinking and Communication.
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December 2017
The two-day event featured student work from several Segal Design Institute courses and programs, including the MS EDI program, student group Design for America, and first-year course Design Thinking and Communication.
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November 2017
Students from across the United States and Canada competed to find better ways to deliver information to millennial parents.
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November 2017
Vivien Ng, a Northwestern Engineering student in the MaDE program, conducted user research for House by Northwestern. Her research contributed to a solar-powered home designed and built by students.
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November 2017
Graduate students from Northwestern, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon presented prototypes intended to help those with disabilities navigate urban areas.
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October 2017
Walter Herbst and Amy O’Keefe work toward making design degrees more consistent among peer institutions.
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October 2017
On October 18, the Segal Design Institute received the Sr. Cecilia Fandel Award for Community and Economic Development from A Just Harvest, a non-profit organization in the nearby Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago.
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October 2017
On October 6, over 200 current students, alumni, faculty, and staff celebrated Homecoming for Northwestern at our Prototype Purple event.
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October 2017
A team of students from House by Northwestern competed in Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, a collegiate competition that challenges teams to build a solar-powered home. Vivien Ng, a junior in the MaDE program, led on interior design.
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October 2017
The EDI program has announced Jim Wicks as the new Director of the EDI program. Before joining the faculty at Segal Design Institute in 2016, Wicks was the Senior Vice President of Consumer Experience Design at Motorola.
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September 2017
The newest students in the MS in Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program completed a ten-day boot camp in design, mechatronics, and fabrication before the official start of their program.
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September 2017
This year, four more faculty members have joined the Design Research Cluster: Brent Hecht from the School of Communication, Stephen Schueller from the Feinberg School of Medicine, Eleanor O’Rourke from Northwestern Engineering and the School of Education and Social Policy, and Madhu Reddy from the School of Communication.
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August 2017
House by Northwestern’s ribbon-cutting ceremony took place Wednesday, August 23; next stop is the DOE Solar Decathlon.
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August 2017
More than 105 Design for America students tackled urban accessibility at Northwestern’s annual leadership studio.
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July 2017
The Segal Design Institute hosted the third Student Shop Managers Conference (SSMC), which fostered dialogue on combining theory and practice in education, as well as standards for training, safety, and operations in educational student shops.
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July 2017
James Kubik and Alan Besquin met as first-year students at Northwestern and they both majored in Manufacturing and Design Engineering (MaDE) through the Segal Design Institute. Now, they are co-founders of a startup called Somewear Labs.
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July 2017
Michael Beltran is the director of the 3D Printing and Rapid Prototyping Lab in the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center at Northwestern. He teaches design as a concept integrated within product development, engineering and manufacturing.
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June 2017
During Intersect CPG: Transformative Product and Business Model Innovation, a multidisciplinary course offered by the Segal Design Institute, graduate students from Northwestern Engineering, Medill and Kellogg work with coaches from Procter & Gamble.
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June 2017
As part of a Segal Design Institute course, students collaborated with Northwestern’s men’s soccer team to develop a soccer trainer that improves field awareness and passing accuracy.
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June 2017
Segal Design Institute hosted an open house during at Northwestern's campus in downtown San Francisco on June 20.
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June 2017
Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering celebrated the graduation of students from the MMM Program on June 17 as a part of the University’s 159th Commencement.
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June 2017
Graduate students in the Master of Product Design and Development program presented their capstone projects at the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center in June.
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June 2017
Students enrolled in the MS in Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program participate in summer internships at a variety companies, including Autodesk, IDEO, Medtronic, and Procter & Gamble.
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June 2017
The Segal Design Institute will be opening the doors of Northwestern's new campus in downtown San Francisco on June 20 as part of San Francisco Design Week. This casual open house will give the Bay Area design community a chance to get to know our faculty, students and alumni.
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May 2017
Northwestern Engineering junior Sarah Lim won the ACM CHI 2017 Student Research Competition earlier this month. Lim has been working in Northwestern's Delta Lab, an interdisciplinary research lab and design studio led by Segal research faculty, to make web design more accessible for beginners.
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May 2017
Julie Hui, a Segal Design Cluster Fellow working at the Delta Lab at Northwestern, spoke to American Public Media's Marketplace about her research on crowdfunding.
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May 2017
Elaine Chen is a second-year in the MMM Program and happens to be one of four co-founders behind the RompHim, a romper designed for men, that has drawn attention from the media and many backers on Kickstarter.
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May 2017
Northwestern student Jason Yuan created his own redesign of Apple Music and published it on Medium. In just a few days, his posted received over 250,000 views and attention from Fast Company Design.
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May 2017
A team of MMM students that included military personnel identified cost-effective channels to improve user experience with Code Platoon, a Chicago vocational school that trains veterans through an intensive coding program. The student team tackled this project as part of Design 480: Business Innovation Lab, a unique experiential course for MMM students.
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May 2017
With newly redesigned cars, Northwestern’s Baja and Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) teams are gearing up to speed past the competition. Both teams will race in three competitions this quarter.
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May 2017
Anil Divakaran, a student in the MMM Program, explains how he leveraged design innovation skills in a more traditional management consulting role during a summer internship.
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April 2017
Northwestern Engineering has several facilities for fabrication and prototyping. But how do you know which one is best for your project? Head to MAKE Northwestern, the University’s new one-stop information hub for all of its fabrication facilities and resources.
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April 2017
The automated lighting system Luna Lights, led by Northwestern alumnus Donovan Morrison, won the Audience Choice prize on March 30 at Cupid's Cup, an entrepreneurship competition sponsored by Under Armour's CEO. Luna Lights began as a student project in Design For America's Northwestern studio. Design for America is housed within the Segal Design Institute.
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April 2017
Held on April 1-2, the Rotman Design Challenge recognized a team of four students in the MMM Program with the best business and design solution on behalf of wireless telecommunications company and challenge sponsor TELUS.
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April 2017
Held on March 2-4, the Innov8 Marketing Case Competition recognized a team with three MMM students for their response to a marketing challenge issued by competition sponsor Adobe.
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April 2017
Students in the Engineering Design Innovation program collaborated with Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a Northwestern-based food allergy researcher, to address the vulnerability of students with life-threatening food allergies on college campuses.
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March 2017
On February 6, the start-up Luna Lights, which began as a Design for America project at Northwestern, was named a finalist for Cupid’s Cup, an entrepreneurship competition started by Under Armour founder Kevin Plank. Northwestern will host the finals March 30 at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. Design for America is housed within the Segal Design Institute.
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March 2017
MMM student Adam Attas chronicles how the New Venture Discovery design practicum has taught him to tackle a problem using a lightweight solution.
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March 2017
Anthony Jakubiak, an Engineering Design Innovation alumnus and Senior Experience Designer at SAP Labs, comes full circle. This quarter, Jakubiak is a co-instructor with faculty member Liz Gerber at Northwestern's inaugural Bay Area Immersion Program where they emphasize experiential learning.
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March 2017
Milan Samuel is a junior in the Manufacturing & Design Engineering (MaDE) program. This past quarter, Milan participated in the inaugural Bay Area Immersion Program. Here is her perspective on the program.
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February 2017
IA Collaborative’s Rebecca Gimenez spoke about critical and emerging trends impacting companies in the travel and hospitality space and offered advice on how to become champions of meaningful innovation.
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December 2016
Four Northwestern students picked up the top award from the P.A.C.E. annual forum sponsored by General Motors, HP, and Siemens for their work as part of an international design team.
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December 2016
MMM alumnus and Harley-Davidson President and CEO Matt Levatich worked with students to solve a challenge presented by the renowned motorcycle company.
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December 2016
Thirteen students presented their individual thesis projects, efforts that touched on topics ranging from education and healthcare to food and travel.
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December 2016
Each graduating student from the Engineering Design Innovation program completed a thesis project with support from faculty and industry mentors. The thesis projects spanned multiple fields of design including product, interaction, service, strategy, and user experience. Browse each student’s final thesis project below.
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December 2016
Segal Design Institute celebrated the newest graduates from the MS EDI program.
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December 2016
The MMM program at the Segal Design Institute welcomed Josh Lucas-Falk and John Devanney of Moment for an event called “Integrate: Business + Design: How to get the most from your degrees in the corporate world.”
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December 2016
Proctor & Gamble challenged student teams to design a new foot care routine. The winning team included Nick Anastasiades, Natasha Singh, and Tom McIntyre from the MMM program.
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November 2016
MMM students organized “Hoot for the Homeless,” a fundraiser for Kellogg School of Management students. Proceeds were donated to Connections for the Homeless, a local non-profit organization.
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November 2016
Students in "Designing Product Interactions" took a workshop in sound design led by Steve Milton, founder and CEO of Listen. Listen helps clients such as Microsoft, Tinder, Spotify, Virgin, and Audi shape user experience.
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November 2016
Nearly 80 graduate students from four Integrated Design Innovation programs – Northwestern, University of Pennsylvania, MIT and Carnegie Mellon – were tasked to inject innovative design into medicine.
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November 2016
Two students enrolled in MMM, a dual-degree program between Segal Design Institute and the Kellogg School of Management, were named 2017 Seibel Scholars.
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November 2016
Engineering Design Innovation students targeted food allergy risks on college campuses with Dr. Ruchi Gupta from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
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November 2016
Five students in the 2017 class at Kellogg — including MMM students Jonathan Goldstein and Bo Gustafsson — will each receive a $35,000 award for their final year of graduate studies.
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October 2016
Three Northwestern students formed a multidisciplinary team and took the AMITA Health Design Challenge, a 24-hour design marathon for the next generation of problem solvers.
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October 2016
Students in the “Design Communication and Methods” course created posters for a non-profit organization while learning typography, color theory, and layout.
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October 2016
Segal Design Institute celebrated Homecoming at Northwestern University by playing one-of-a-kind games during "Prototype Purple."
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October 2016
Chicago Ideas Week inspired city residents to think, dream and connect during October 17-23. Eleven students enrolled in courses at the Segal Design Institute were among the crowd, thanks to support provided by the Norman Fund.
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October 2016
Based at the Northwestern educational space in downtown San Francisco, 24 students – 12 each from the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science – will learn from and contribute to the Bay Area’s entrepreneurial culture.
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September 2016
Incoming students to the EDI program participated in Design Boot Camp before the start of the fall term.
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August 2016
An undergraduate pursuing a BS in Manufacturing & Design Engineering developed informational road signs that promote bikers’ use of hand signals.
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August 2016
Design for America's national Leadership Studio was attended by 110 students representing 33 DFA chapters. Students explored ways to improve the voting experience.
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August 2016
Chicago innovation website features the start up and DFA project Luna Lights, a lighting system that ensures the safety of the elderly at night.
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July 2016
In the wake of IKEA recalling a popular furniture piece over safety concerns, Fast Company features projects by students from the Segal Design Institute. Students focused on making dressers "tip-proof" for children.
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June 2016
Family of emeritus faculty member Masahiro “Mike” Meshii (PhD ’59) have pledged more than $250,000 to endow the Masahiro and Eiko Meshii Award, which will be given by the Segal Design Institute to one or more faculty members.
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June 2016
Jim Wicks, senior vice president of consumer experience design at Motorola, joins the Segal Design Institute as a full-time faculty member. Wicks is responsible for the design of many of the top mobile products of the last decade.
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May 2016
DFA and Luna Lights were recently featured on "Big Shoulders" for their work in the civic technology space.
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May 2016
The MMM Innovation Council visited campus for its annual meeting, offering students the unique chance to connect with council members and gain their perspective on how innovation is shaping today’s business world.
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May 2016
Segal's David Gatchell and Liz Gerber are among five faculty members being honored with this year's Charles Deering McCormick Teaching Excellence Awards.
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March 2016
This quarter-long program in San Francisco is intended for sophomores and juniors in McCormick and Medill, with a focus on design innovation, digital communication, and the intersection of technology, media, and culture.
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March 2016
EDI alumnus and SAP Experience Designer Matt Glibbery helped design Super Bowl 50's Super Bowl City. Read this Q&A to learn more about his experience working on the project.
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March 2016
EDI alumnus and SAP Experience Designer Matt Glibbery helped design Super Bowl 50's Super Bowl City. Read this Q+A to learn more about his experience working on the project and what it was like getting to go to the Super Bowl.
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March 2016
Segal's first session of "Leadership through Design Innovation" ended last week, and according to the data, learners were very pleased.
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March 2016
JDF awards yearly scholarships to students who demonstrate a commitment to engineering and the development of new ideas. Meet this year's three scholars from Segal.
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March 2016
First-year MMM student Vandana Sathpathy explains how the "Research Design Build" course simplifies the design thinking process.
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February 2016
Bruce Ankenman spoke with the Wall Street Journal about "Design Thinking and Communication," a course for freshman offered by the Segal Design Institute.
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February 2016
First-year MMM student Kristen Zhou describes how she used design thinking to solve a challenge in the consumer healthcare market.
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January 2016
MMM student Alyssa Lorenz shares how she leveraged design thinking during an internship with Johnson & Johnson.
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January 2016
MMM student Caio Dimov describes how his MMM coursework helped him during summer internships at Maserati and ABInbev.
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January 2016
Starting on January 18, Northwestern Engineering will broaden its design curriculum by offering a massive open online course (MOOC) called “Leadership through Design Innovation,” which will teach participants about the process and power of design.
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December 2015
EDI class of 2015 graduated this week, moving the program's alumni count into the hundreds. Family, friends and faculty celebrated the students and all of their accomplishments in Ford prior to the ceremony.
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December 2015
EDI class of 2015 culminates their 15-month program with final thesis project presentations with projects ranging from products to services to strategies.
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December 2015
Segal hosted its biannual Design Expo in a new location this year: The Garage. Students displayed innovative designs and polished portfolios that they worked on all quarter.
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December 2015
Segal's Ed Colgate and Michael Peshkin continue to lead the way in haptics technology. Their most recent technology, The TPad, allows users to feel textures on a touchscreen.
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December 2015
In its eighth volume, Northwestern Research publishes a piece on the robust relationship between Chicago's Shedd Aquarium and the Segal Design Institute.
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December 2015
Between their first and second year, MMM students take on challenging internships. Read about their experiences in this ongoing blog series.
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November 2015
Segal's new course Design Thinking and Doing introduces students outside of McCormick to the design process.
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November 2015
Segal Advisory Board member Robb Olsen talks about his role at P&G, the company's six-yearlong partnership with EDI, what it's like working with his wife and more in this Q+A.
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November 2015
Due to popular demand, Segal is offering additional quarters of some of its most popular DSGN courses, as well as adding a couple of new classes!
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November 2015
Students from Northwestern and the University of Pennsylvania participated in the third annual EDI+IPD 24-hour Design Challenge with this year's focus on emergency epinephrine access.
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November 2015
Students from Northwestern and the University of Pennsylvania participated in the third annual 24-hour Design Challenge. This year's focus was emergency epinephrine access.
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October 2015
Segal celebrates its third annual homecoming event Prototype Purple with students, alumni, friends, family and faculty.
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October 2015
Segal celebrates two Research Council Members for their entrance into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame and another for her esteemed Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award.
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September 2015
Answer this: What is design to you?
That’s a pretty open-ended question, but that’s Professor Erin Huizenga’s intention when she asks her 60 MMM students the first day of class.
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August 2015
This year's DFA Leadership Studio attracted the news team from ABC7 Chicago. This year students focused on finding solutions to make life easier for people living with Down syndrome.
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August 2015
EDI alumni are finalists for INDEX: Award 2015, a global design award focused on "Designing to Improve Life." The winners will be revealed August 27 in Denmark.
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August 2015
DFA has two new fellows! Learn more about them here.
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August 2015
Doblin co-founder and MMM adjunct professor Larry Keeley hosted MMM students at Doblin’s Chicago office for a crash course on what innovation looks, feels, tastes, smells and sounds like.
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August 2015
EDI student and James Dyson Foundation scholar Torey Kocsik talks about her influencers and what it's like to be a female in a male-dominated industry.
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August 2015
NU and DFA alumni Hannah Chung and Aaron Horowitz show off their product Jerry the Bear at the first-ever White House Demo Day.
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July 2015
MMM kicks off its orientation RSG by welcoming its new class of 60 with a bang!
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July 2015
We're excited to congratulate three of our faculty members on huge successes!
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July 2015
Segal Design Certificate student Jenn Murphy was listed as one of NU's outstanding seniors making "The Innovators" list.
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July 2015
McCormick Engineering had a booth at Chicago's techweek this year where Segal promoted its professional masters programs.
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April 2015
During this year’s DESIGN: Chicago, professionals from Doblin Inc., Audi, frog and IA Collaborative spoke about how design can be used as a strategic tool across industries.
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March 2015
Greg Holderfield is director of the Segal Design Institute, clinical associate professor and co-director of the MMM program. In this interview Holderfield discusses what makes design thinking so valuable.
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February 2015
Liz Gerber debuts her quick-paced design-thinking game Mockups to Segal students during event.
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January 2015
MMM students share their reactions to IDEO chief creative officer Paul Bennett’s recent presentation on design thinking to the Kellogg community.
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January 2015
MMM co-director Greg Holderfield examines ten traits he believes are essential to be an effective design thinker.
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January 2015
A team of four Kellogg students that included MMM classmates David Ufford and Justin Saeheng won second place in UC Berkeley’s 2014 Haas Tech Challenge held in November.
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December 2014
The MS-EDI class of 2014 recently presented their final thesis projects.
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December 2013
The EDI class of 2013 has completed their thesis work.
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