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Panel Sessions
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• What are the must have elements of a fabrication space for schools that Robert Nagel
are planning to design and or renovate their maker space? Should
traditional shops rethink their tools and equipment to supplement maker James Madison University
spaces?
Biography: Since joining James Madison University, Nagel has helped to
• What is the maker space beyond making? How do we design for this? develop the Department’s six course engineering design sequence, and
• How do we encourage and develop an inclusive and welcoming he is lead instructor of the two-course, client-based sophomore design
experience. Nagel earned his Ph.D. from Oregon State University, his M.S.
environment that fosters learning and engagement for all students? from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and his B.S. from
• Other topics that the panelists would like to share. Trine University—all three in mechanical engineering. Nagel, a strong
• Questions from audience. proponent of undergraduate research, performs research related to
understanding how interventions impact students’ abilities to design and
Program Moderator understand systems. Currently, Nagel is investigating the impact of
functional modeling on students’ ability to understand, represent, and
Daniela Faas design systems, and the impact of student engagement in university maker
spaces on students’ design self-efficacy and student learning.
Olin College
Biography: Daniela Faas, Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, Jesse Austin-Breneman
Director of Design and Fabrication Operations, Olin College Prior to joining
Olin College, Dr. Faas was the senior preceptor in design instruction at the University of Michigan
John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard
University. Dr. Faas was a Shapiro postdoctoral fellow in the Mechanical Biography: Austin-Breneman earned his PhD from MIT and was a
Engineering Department at MIT after receiving her Ph.D. in Mechanical postdoctoral research associate in the MIT Ideation Lab and the MIT Global
Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction from Iowa State University. Engineering and Research Lab. His research focuses on system-level
Dr. Faas graduated from Bucknell University with her M.S. in Mechanical approaches to difficult engineering design problems, such as large-scale
Engineering and joint B.S./B.A. in Mechanical Engineering and International complex system designs and product design for emerging markets. His
Relations. Dr. Faas is currently a research affiliate in the Department of work uses empirical studies, practitioner interviews and simulations to gain
Mechanical Engineering at MIT. Her research focuses on developing low insight into issues facing multi-disciplinary design teams working in these
cost immersive Virtual Reality applications for products and systems, early fields. He is particularly interested in how teams manage competing
stage design process and methodology and engineering education. objectives throughout the design process and formal strategies for helping
them do so. Austin-Breneman leads the Global Design Laboratory and he is
PANELISTS the faculty advisor for BLUElab, a sustainability engineering student
organization.
Sunand Bhattacharya
Autodesk, Inc.
Biography: As part of the Autodesk Education Experience Group, Sunand
Bhattacharya manages its Learning Futures team. In this role, he is
responsible for the strategy, management and evangelization of
Autodesk’s future influence advocacy in global academia. Sunand is a
graduate in Industrial Design from the National Institute of Design (NID) in
India and holds his terminal graduate degree in Industrial Design and
Human Factors from The Ohio State University.
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