Learning front end design.
Undergraduate students work with the students to engage in human-centered design, placing value on front end stages including ethnographic observation and interviews.
Identifying user needs.
Elementary students identifying the needs of their teacher after a client interview.
Prototyping based on client needs.
Elementary students prototyping their solution for their client, one of their teachers, to help organize her school day.
EEP is an organization I co-founded in 2014 that is dedicated to introducing elementary students to engineering through a human-centered design approach facilitated by undergraduate engineering students. Elementary students learn and engage in ethnographic observations and interviews, prototyping, and presentations.
Learn more at https://elementaryengineeringpartnerships.weebly.com/
Presenting solutions.
Elementary students rehearse their presentation with undergraduate students preparing to reveal their product to the class.
Recycled and reused materials.
Prototypes are created using recycled materials.
Undergraduate engineering facilitators.
Undergraduate students review the design process stage and goals for today's activity.
Photo credit: Joseph Xu