Engineering for Change in Hampton Roads provided students the opportunity to be tourists in their own community, introducing them to the engineering challenges and opportunities of Hampton Roads, shifting their perspective, and deepening their understanding of the importance and relevance of …
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The Design Process: Ideate
Blog post by Frances Harrington, ’19 For the past few weeks, the two separate groups of the Engineering, Design, and Innovation Fellows have focused on researching their problem and using problem demarcation to get to the ideate phase of the …
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The Design Process: Problem Definition
Fellows are engrossed in a detailed study of each phase of the Design Cycle. Blog post by Sebastian Singh, ’19 A few months ago, we began our research and problem-demarcation phase. Both groups, team Lunch-Room, Connor, Nathan, and Frances and …
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The Design Process: Empathy Phase, Part II
Fellows are engrossed in a detailed study of each phase of the Design Cycle. Students deepened their understanding of the empathy stage through studying and practicing the art of interviewing. Blog post by Connor Holland, ’19 Over the past few …
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The Design Cycle: Empathy Phase, Part I
Fellows are engrossed in a detailed study of each phase of the Design Cycle. Students deepened their understanding of the empathy stage through understanding the role of observation in the engineering design process. Blog post by Nathan Williams ’19 During …
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Goal Setting
By Patrick McElroy In order to achieve the goals that EDI, a regimen must be satisfied. Both in and out of meetings, the Fellows has worked to set, complete, and reflect on meaningful objectives. In a way, finding and completing …
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EDI’s First Design Palooza
By Kevin Smedley On Friday’s, about once every three weeks, the Engineering, Design, and Innovation fellows get together and have a 3-5 hour meeting with dinner and creativity guaranteed. These meetings are called Design Paloozas and are looked forward to …
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Redesigning the Gift Giving Experience
By Francis Harrington In mid-September, the EDI Fellows group of 2019 conducted a gift-giving experiment. We were put into pairs of two. First, Partner 1 conducted an interview to Partner 2 asking about the last gift-giving event they had been …
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EDI Trip: Day 4
Today was our first morning in our NY hotel, the Comfort Inn. Although some people overslept, we eventually got down to breakfast. This food was not quite as good as in the hotel in Washington D.C. , but it still …
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EDI’s 19 2015 Trip! (Day 3)
After waking up early in order to be able to catch the train to New York, we ate at the hotel buffet. At precisely 6:20 A.M. we left the hotel and began our hectic quest to the train station. However, …
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