Heliotropic SmartSurfaces
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(Fall 2009) offered a collaborative, project-based learning experience in which
undergraduate artists, designers, architects and engineers came together
to build physical systems and structural surfaces that have the
capability to adapt to information and environmental conditions.The
course was broken into two phases: an introductory / skill building
phase, and the final project. For the first part of the course,
participants focused on problem and constraint definition, structured
brainstorming and skill building. Final teams were assigned in week six
and the rest of the semester involved the production of the fully
realized, funded projects shown below. Both phases focused on
multidisciplinary, collaborative teams to carry out the assignments and
projects. An important aspect of this course was the manner in which
useful cross-fertilization emerged in the application of different
disciplinary methodologies in response to concrete problems in practice.
Course
participants had the opportunity to gain experience with using diverse
tools and processes. Where possible, learning made use of practical
problem solving through experimentation. All participants were
challenged beyond their usual intellectual and disciplinary boundaries
and had to negotiate and manage differences between the cultures of
three university units (Art & Design, Architecture and Materials
Science Engineering).
Each team was required to design, build, program and test a
‘heliotropic smartsurface’ that makes use of:
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Solar energy harvesting•
Microcontroller programming (Arduino) and circuit building
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Parametric modeling (Digital Project)
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Digital fabricationTeams
had to consider and negotiate what makes a surface smart, and why we
would be interested in a smart surface that follows the Sun. They had
to engage a methodology of defining explicit relationships, complex
behaviors, and unforeseen responses in a context of distributed
authorship.
University of Michigan, Fall 2009
3 Credits
Fridays, 11am-5pm
Design Lab 1, Duderstadt Center
Tasks
Fall2009_Task1 - Introduction: Deposit sand in specified locations using only the provided materials and tools.
Max Shtein sets up the topic for the
semester.
Fall2009_Task2 - Arduino: Design, build, program and test a device that tracks a handheld flashlight.
John Marshall reviews Arduino workflow.
Fall2009_Task3 - Digital Project: Make a heliotropic field that is responsive to the movement of the sun.
Karl Daubmann introduces parametric modeling with Digital Project.
Fall2009_Task4
- Two-week Heliotropic SmartSurface: Propose, develop, deconstruct and
implement an idea based on the principles of an interactive,
heliotropic smartsurface.
Fall2009_Task5 - Advanced Arduino: A grab bag of exercises that extend what can be done with Arduino, motors and sensors.
Fall2009_Task6
- Seven-week Heliotropic SmartSurface: Design, build, program and test
a ‘heliotropic smartsurface’.
Julian Bleecker helps set up the scope of the final project.
Fall2009_Task6a -
Eugene Shteyn talks about finding high quality problems that are implementable and diffusable.
Fall2009_Task6b -
Michelle Addington talks about discrete systems and technology transfer.
Fall2009_Final - Presentations and reviews.
The Shy Solar Array: An Adaptive Solar Array That Responds To Weather
Arrays of solar cells are vulnerable to their surroundings, do not
maximize the sunlight-collecting surface area, and are unattractive.
Inspired by the Mimosa Pudica plant and its tendency to shy away from
external stimuli, our shy solar array was created. Our solar array
protects itself from damaging elements such as snow or rain by flipping
away from them. This will allow the solar array to be implemented in
less than ideal weather locations, such as Michigan. Our solar array
also maximizes the sun collecting surface area through its unique
shape. The form of the array lends itself to a more efficient use of
surface area by avoiding shadowing when the cell is rotated towards the
sun. Also, the array stands out as a more desirable object that can
serve as a stand-alone artifact as well as a useful solar array.
Outside of the gallery this solar array would be implemented onto the
rooftop of Michigan Engineering buildings as an alternative energy
source. To further maximize the collected energy, the solar array
should contain solar cells that are specially shaped to the design.
Team Fabric + Super J
Alyssa Ackerman – School of Art and Design
Johanna Brand – Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Yuming Jiang – Material Science and Engineering
Chris Johnson – Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Mat Schwartz - School of Art and Design
Michelle Svetkoff - Material Science and Engineering
The iWall Modular Light-Filtration System
The wall you see here is a modular, scalable, self-adjusting
multi-aperture window, designed to optimize light flow into a room by
manipulating the position of rotating wood panels. You could call it
an 'automatic venetian blind', as that is the gist of the purpose. The
system consists of 30 individual modules, with one panel per module,
which allow a variable amount of light to pass through. The structural
elements are built modularly, but circuitry elements - such as wiring -
are set up in a non-modular fashion. Individual module apertures open
and close in reaction to the intensity of the light that passes through
the wall as detected by light-dependent resistors (LDRs), seen on the
projection side, holding a relatively constant light level on the
‘interior’ of the wall at all times - this gives 'heliotropic' and
'smart' characteristics to the wall - 'surface', fitting it into the
premise of the SmartSurfaces course. The actual actuation is by a grid
of servos powered externally and controlled through inputs from an
Arduino Mega and the LDRs. The materials used in the assembly of the
individual modules were 3/16" cast acrylic cut by laser and 3/16" 6061
aluminum sheet cut by water jet.
Team iWall
Westley Josiah Burger - Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Peter Hall - School of Art and Design
Brieana MacDonald - Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Michael Mathieu - Material Science and Engineering
Taylor McKenzie-Veal - School of Art and Design
Neil Poulin - Material Science and Engineering
Simon
Simon is a heliotropic, feel-good machine. He interacts with a user
through motion and LED color mixing and enters a default solar-tracking
mode when not in use. Face recognition technology, a simple joint
system, and a flexible LED array make possible a wide range of movement
and interaction while photovoltaic panels provide the power. By fusing
emotional connections with the user, we hope to transform the concept
of sustainability from a condition of sacrifice to that of pleasure.
Team Softcore
Rachel Boswell - School of Art and Designn
Eric Harman - School of Art and Design
Marc Maxey - Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Lindsey May - Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Damien Stonick - Material Science and Engineering
Zilin Wang - Material Science and Engineering
Exposure
Rather than using solar cells to convert sunlight into electrical
energy, we are concerned with using the power of the sun in a more
direct way. Exposure is a biological, heliotropic lighting system
powered by photosynthesis. Living inside the piece are several
Dinoflagellates, Pyrocystis fusiformis, aka bioluminescent algae. The
bioluminescence of the organisms are set to a biological clock quite
similar to our sleep cycle. During 12 hours of daylight Pyrocystis use
the available light to photosynthesize, producing their own food and
oxygen. At sunset the cells produce the chemicals that cause the
luminescent reaction. If agitated during their 12-hour dark cycle, the
algae give off a glowing blue light. In Exposure we have harvested
several bioluminescent algae organisms, and embedded them into an
architectural array. Within the array, varying panel heights correspond
to the density of algae organisms contained in each unit. Infrared
sensors located below the panels detect human presence, and trigger a
motor. Attached to the motors, a cam makes contact with the panels
creating enough motion to agitate the algae and expose their
bioluminescent glow.
Team Slime
Ivan Adelson - Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Aidan Feldman - Computer Science Engineering & Department of Dance
Isaac Krauss - School of Art and Design
Laura Ligeski - Material Science and Engineering
Allison Sturm - School of Art and Design
David Theisz - Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
Students
Alyssa
Ackerman is junior at the School of Art and Design. She is intrigued
with the problem-solving aspect of design and explores both graphic and
industrial design. She is also studying the Programs in the
Environment, with a focus on agriculture. She hopes to fuse these
topics and use design to help solve environmental problems of today and
the future.
Alyssa is taking this class to better her
understanding of Design. She loves the multi-discipline aspect of the
class and time spent working in groups filled with very different
perspectives, backgrounds, and ideas.
Alyssa will be studying
this following semester at the Shrishti School of Art, Design, and
Technology in Bangalore, India. Here, she will again be working in a
multi-discipline setting, with a great emphasis on design and
technology.
Ivan
Adelson is a senior in the undergraduate architecture program at
University of Michigan’s TCAUP. He is interested in exploring
functional and practical solutions to design problems, while
experimenting with different ways to create social engagement and
proactive resolutions. It is about creating a specific experience for
a specific space, and to understand the relationships between the ways
people interact within. Architecture, to Ivan, is meant to generate
change; change the way people live, the way people gather information,
the way the world looks, the way we function.
Over the years
Ivan has worked for a couple architecture firms. During his senior
year of high school and parts of his freshman year of college, Ivan was
an intern at Neumann Smith Architects in Southfield, Michigan.
Following this Ivan was offered the opportunity to intern at a smaller
architecture firm in New York City, Guerin Glass Architects. Both
provided valuable experiences, exposure to immense knowledge and
encouragement to pursue the field of architecture.
Rachel
Boswell is a senior at the School of Art & Design. With a focus on
product design, specifically furniture, she has been exploring aspects
of sustainability and the conscious use of materials.
Rachel
spent the whole of last year studying Scandinavian product design and
sustainable design at the Norwegian University of Science and
Technology, where much of the work was collaborative and team oriented.
Because this kind of learning environment was so enriching and fun, she
decided to join the Smartsurfaces team to further her design and
real-world cooperative experience.
This year, Rachel hopes to
hone her 3D design skills and expand her knowledge of environmentally
friendly construction methods and materials. Smartsurfaces seems to be
the perfect way to do this and to exchange ideas, skills, and working
methods with fellow students and other disciplines.
Johanna
is a senior in the undergraduate architecture program. She is
interested in interdisciplinary design problems relating to cultural
and environmental issues. She is interested in the way that people from
different fields approach various problems and how different methods of
problem solving achieve a final result.
Over the last summer,
Johanna interned at an architecture firm in Germany. She has also
worked in the testing department of an automotive supplier.
After
graduating, Johanna plans to get go to grad school abroad in Germany or
Switzerland or taking some time off to travel and/or volunteer.
(Westley)
Josiah Burger is a senior at TCAUP. He is interested in interactive and
responsive architecture, and in form creation. Josiah is currently
working for Clark Construction Company in order to better understand
building construction and structure. He is planning on working for an
architecture firm for a few years before returning to school for his M.
ARCH.
Aidan
Feldman is currently a super-senior at University of Michigan, pursuing
a double-major in Computer Science and Dance. Originally from Chicago,
he is interested in human computer interaction, artificial
intelligence, physical theater, web design and dance choreography,
performance and improvisation.
He is the Co-Outreach Chair for
BLUElab,
an engineering student group focusing on sustainable design, where he
is working on a hybrid-hydraulic bicycle with regenerative braking.
Currently, Aidan is choreographing the musical
Hair, performing in
Wild Swan Theater's Hawk, I'm Your Brother for children throughout Southeast Michigan.
He hopes to someday get a master's degree in New Media, and get a job teaching interdisciplinary courses just like this one.
Pete
Hall is a junior in the School of Art & Design studying industrial
design and is interested in multi-use, collapsible and space saving
design. He has a background studying mechanical engineering at Michigan
Engineering before discovering his calling in the design field. He is
taking Smartsurfaces because of his belief that engineering and design
are not mutually exclusive and must collaborate for both fields to move
forward.
During his junior year of study, Pete is focusing on
sustainable design and has catered his course selection around design,
technology and the environment and is specifically using less and
more-renewable materials for prototyping.
Eric
Harman is a junior in the School of Art and Design, focusing in
Industrial Design, and dislikes speaking of himself in the third-person.
I
want to change the world. I am in the SmartSurfaces studio because I am
interested not only in "what" we will do to save the planet from
environmental cataclysm, but "why" and "how"? What makes our ways of
thinking superior to the natural order nature has established vis-a-vis
Evolution? I hope to observe and partake in solutions to lessen our
environmental impact, as well as the processes that lead to group
innovation and essentially, the justification of human existance when
we appear to be at the root of our own growing catastrophe.
Yuming
Jiang (friends also call him Jason) is a senior in Materials Science
and Engineering with a dual degree program in mechanical engineering at
Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He works in Prof. Goldman’s research
group on nano-semiconductor materials which have novel applications in
solar energy, thermoelectric (from heat to electricity) and invisible
materials (negative refractive index). Publications on nanostructure
evolution under ion irradiations are in progress.
Having
investigated the growth mechanism and synthesis of novel materials in a
nanometer scale, he is interested in implementing sustainable energy
solutions in a level of commercial devices. Also, based on his
education experience in China, Germany and US, he believes energy
crisis should be addressed internationally, which is what he wants to
learn and get inspired from Smartsurfaces.
Other internships
and research experiences are expected to be helpful in Smartsurfaces,
including testing superhard composite material (artificial diamond
based), working on credit loans at a small financial institution, 3D
modeling and analysis of carotid divarication.
Christopher
is a senior in TCAUP working towards his Bachelors of Science in
architecture. His explorations have shifted during his tenure in Ann
Arbor from writing and journalism to architecture and interactive
design. He currently works in the 3D lab at the Duderstadt and enjoys
working with a multitude of 3D modeling programs as well as digital
fabrication practices. He is currently learning parametric modeling and
hopes to explore more computational design during his final year.
Chris took
Malcolm McCullough's
responsive surfaces course last winter and chose to enroll in
Smartsurfaces to further his education in this interesting arena. By
adding students from multiple disciplines, there is an incredibly
dynamic conversation that can be had during the course of the
semester. Chris wants to utilize interactive design while creating
some pretty cool stuff.
Isaac
Krauss is a senior in the School of Art and Design and is largely
interested in fabrication, design and sculpture. Isaac spends most of
his academic time sketching, working with clay, and 3D modeling. He
watches a lot of movies, South Park, Mad Men and the crap circling the
Internet. Isaac is interested in designing for himself as fine artist
in the future, but would love to work in set design or special effects
for entertainment.
Laura
Ligeski is a senior in the Materials Science and Engineering
department. She has been doing research in Professor Jones and
Pollock's research group focusing first on ultrasonic fatigue testing
of ductile cast iron during the Winter '09 semester. Currently, she is
working with AZ61L magnesium sheets that have been through a variety of
processes including as molded, rolled and annealed. The material is
going through a special process of called thixomolding, which is done
in order to decrease particle size and make the sheet more uniform. For
both metal research projects, she preformed fractography and
microstructural anaylsis.
There are two reasons that Laura
decided to take this class. To begin with, this class allows her to
learn how to use a variety of new tools and machines in order to
accomplish the task at hand. However, the main reason is that she loves
working with people, not only for the social aspect but for the
difference in opinions. Over her past three years of schooling, she has
come to realize that different opinions and points of views are what
make a truly good concept great. Having this opportunity to work with
not only other students, but students from different majors, will allow
her to truly experience what it is like to work in a more real world
atmosphere and will allow her to better understand and appreciate how
other people think and work towards the same goal.
Brieana
is a senior in TCAUP's undergraduate architecture program. She began
her collegiate education in engineering, switching to architecture
after finding that her interests lean more toward visual rather than
virtual concepts of space. At first being frustrated with the
differences she found in the way engineering and architecture teach
designers to think, she has learned to begin to hone this difference as
a mediator between pragmatic and conceptual thinking.
Her
reasons for taking this course are many, but her main interests lie
within documenting and experimenting with the process in which
engineers, artists, and architects learn to work together as well as
observing how the educators learn to teach and control the dynamic of
such a mixture. More actively in this course, she is interested in
collaborating to design original strategies of solving problems that
perhaps haven't been re-thought or reinvented since their original
construct.
Michael
Mathieu is a senior in the Materials Science and Engineering
department, focusing primarily on metallurgy, though with a strong
interdisciplinary interest in the mineral resources industry. He also
has a minor in Classical Civilization, specifically the Roman Empire,
and is meshing his interests into survey of the history of ancient
Roman mining for his senior year research. He is an active member in
the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, as well as various
materials-oriented societies.
Mathieu has spent the past two
summers working as a metallurgical intern at ArcelorMittal Riverdale, a
steel mill in Riverdale, IL. His primary projects there involved
process improvement, working with both liquid and solid steel. He felt
that the experience was vastly rewarding, both technically and from
learning to interact with union and non-union employees, and he is
considering a career in the steel industry.
Mathieu’s reasoning
for joining SmartSurfaces was twofold. First, the idea of
multidisciplinary education intrigued him, and the opportunity to work
with people from other walks of life was not one to pass up. Second,
he felt that he lacked significant experience in solar and open-source
technology, and that the experience he will gain will be important in
the future, with the evolution of modern industry towards
sustainability.
Marc
Maxey completed TCAUP’s undergraduate architecture program in 2009. He
received several awards for his academic work in the Wallenberg
competition, Wilike Portfolio competion, and the 2009 Taubman College
student show.
He is currently studying an additional year as an
Undergraduate to pursue a curriculum outside the lens of accreditation.
Marc is focusing on digital technology and fabrication, as well as land
art and product design.
Marc studied auto mechanics after
high school at Universal Technical Institute in Illinois. After
apprenticing for a year at a small import repair shop, he was accepted
into BMW of North America’s Service Training Excellence Program (STEP)
in New Jersey. Marc worked as technician for several years, lastly at
BMW of Manhattan. His interest in mechanical things still persists
through his love for vintage cars and scooters.
Marc’s
professional design work has consisted of several design-build
projects, most recently he and his partner completed a set of
home-office
furniture for a resident in Detroit’s Lafayette Park. Other projects inlcude an office and retail interior for
Être Design in Kerrytown, and
custom cabinetry.
Lindsey
May is a senior in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban
Planning. She is interested in networked systems and the management of
programatic fields. This results in work that pursues evolving and
opportunistic understandings of place, boundary, and the role of the
individual. The interdisciplinary structure of Smartsurfaces explores
the notions of role and exchange through the deconstruction of
antiquated ideas of segregated interdisciplinary work.
This past
summer she studied in Beijing at Beijing Architecture Studio Enterprise
(B.A.S.E.) and worked in Shanghai at Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects.
After graduation, she hopes to work in the architecture or
design industry and develop her skills and interests.
Taylor
McKenzie-Veal is a senior in the School of Art & Design where he
has focused his studies on Industrial Design. He is interested in how
design can affect people’s lives and create change. He believes that
environmental responsibility is a criterion of good design
Taylor
is taking this class because he believes that working in an
interdisciplinary environment is a crucial component to progress. This
approach will be necessary in a future where all people and their
respective disciplines must work towards mutual goals of sustainability
and innovation.
Neil
is a senior in the Materials Science and Engineering department at the
University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is interested in biomaterials
and would like to work on making medical devices such as artificial
organs or other prosthetics. He is also interested in metamaterials
after he worked with them for the miniaturization of patch antennas for
micro radio applications at his internship with BAE Systems in
Merrimack, NH, this past summer.
Mathew
Schwartz is a junior in the School of Art and Design. He is interested
in 3D technology with a focus on human and computer interaction.
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Damien
Stonick is a senior in the Materials Science and Engineering program at
the University of Michigan. Throughout her college curriculum she has
had a strong interest in the development of solar energy technologies,
particularly solar cells. She has participated in research with Max
Shtein in developing a solar cell system involving polar CdTe quantum
dots.
As an individual who is more of a multi-disciplinary
student than most engineers seem, with a lifetime of art, theater,
writing, and scientific interest, Damien felt this was a course that
applied very strongly to her interests and would hopefully provide the
opportunity to collaborate with other disciplines to create products
and systems that have the potential to change and improve the way our
society looks at solar energy.
Allison Sturm is a senior in the School of Art and Design.
Michelle
Svetkoff is a senior in the Materials Science Engineering department.
She loves knowing about and creating the cutting edge of things. She
became a Materials engineer because all technology has physical
limitations and its expansion is highly dependent upon the progression
of materials, both in the discovery of materials and in the design of
materials. A famous saying of materials is ‘the structure affects the
properties’. She considers materials to be the epicenter of all
technology.
Svetkoff joined this class for various reasons. The
first is that she realizes how important this class is for the
evolution of technology. No problem can be solved with one type of
thinking, and so being able to communicate and work cross-disciplinary
is vital to effective solutions to match the world’s growing
technological demands. Another reason she joined this class was so she
could physically make something. All of our engineering classes teach
us the concepts, but very few classes actually use these concepts to
construct anything. As everyone knows, the theoretical and the actual
results are VERY different, and she believes that to be a good engineer
you need to be aware of both. In class when you learn that Al has an
elastic modulus of 70 GPa, what does this really mean for real-life
use? There are many more reasons, but the reasons are less important
when compared to what else is on this website (i.e our experiences and
our projects).
Last summer Svetkoff interned at IMRA America.
IMRA is a highly technical research company that creates femtosecond
lasers and metal nanoparticles (using a non-chemical method). She
thoroughly enjoyed this internship because her primary project was to
find how these metal nanoparticles could be applied to real-life. So
she got to study the feasibility of hundreds of different cutting-edge
possibilities. This was very exciting to see because in the classroom
we aren’t ever asked to think about how materials can be
manipulated/utilized for the real world.
David
Theisz is a senior at The Taubman College of Architecture and Urban
Planning. His disciplinary interests polarize between architectural
design as a process of rigorous drawing buttressed by theories of
representation and as a medium for utilizing emerging technologies for
progressive cultural production; two areas of focus often considered to
be in conflict. Having originally planned to pursue a career in fine
arts, David is an advocate of inter-disciplinary work and is excited to
be working in a collaborative setting utilizing not only the talents,
but different methods of conceptualization and implementation that are
used to define professional boundaries.
Zilin
Wang is a senior undergraduate student studying Materials Science and
Engineering at University of Michigan. Zilin is also an entrepreneur
who co-founded a web 2.0 startup:
http://www.skoogo.com/ in 2007.
From
his working experience at Microsoft, MySpace, Nano-mechanical
Engineering lab at Northwestern University, to his own company, Zilin
realizes what multidisciplinary collaboration means to a successful
commercial product, which not only depends on technology but also on
excellent design, concept, marketing, etc. His reason to participate in
project Smartsurfaces is to collaborate with experts from different
fields to solve real world problems and to better understand how to
transform a cutting edge technology into a humane product that really
solve customers' problems and make people's life better.
Having
been worked as a marketer, product designer, research assistant and
entrepreneur, Zilin is very familiar with solving problems under real
world scenarios and acquainted with what factors, pressures from real
world market must be considered.
Guests
Julian
Bleecker is a designer, technologist and researcher at the Design
Strategic Projects studio at Nokia Design in Los Angeles and co-founder
with Nicolas Nova of the
Near Future Laboratory,
their design-to-think studio. He lectures and leads workshops on the
intersections of art, design, technology and the near-future
possibilities for new social-technical interaction rituals. He has
taught interactive media at Parson’s School of Design and the
University of Southern California. Julian has given talks and exhibited
many of his emerging technology projects, designs and concepts in
venues such as SIGGRAPH, LIFT, Xerox PARC, O’Reilly Emerging Technology
Conference and Where 2.0 Conference on Location-Based Technology,
Ubicomp, Ars Electronica, ACM SIGCHI, ACM Advances in Computer
Entertainment, Banff New Media Institute, American Museum of the Moving
Image, Art Interactive, Boston Cyberarts Festival, SHiFT, Reboot,
Eyebeam Atelier, and SK Telecom’s Art Center Nabi.
He
has a
Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, a
Master’s Degree from the University of Washington, Seattle, in
Computer-Human Interaction, and a Ph.D. from the University of
California, Santa Cruz where his dissertation is on technology, culture
and entertainment. He was formally a Professor of Interactive Media at
the University of Southern California. He serves as an adviser to the
US Pavilion for the Shanghai 2010 World Expo, and is on the board of
advisors the Lift Conference and can often be found jurying
international art-technology conferences. He is presently conducting a
research study on the relationships between art, technology and
innovation practices under a grant from the University of Southern
California’s Provost’s Office and completing a book on “New Interaction
Rituals” and a pamphlet for the Architectural League on urban networks.
His current interests include: Design, Science Fiction, Film, Urban
Space, Future Things and
strategies for thinking about and creating conversations that lead to
more habitable near future worlds.
Eugene
Shteyn is Director of Intellectual Property and Standards, at
Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, California. He also teaches model-based
invention and innovation at Stanford University. Shteyn holds
twenty-four US patents and is a named inventor on more than forty
patents pending (in software architecture, digital entertainment,
internet services, nanotechnology, and other areas). At
Hewlett-Packard, Shteyn works on identifying potential markets for
technology transfer and intellectual property licensing strategies. His
experience includes invention development, establishing standards
alliances with major global companies, guiding and motivating
high-impact interdisciplinary teams. Much of his work is represented in
high-tech products and industry standards. Shteyn received degrees in
mechanical engineering and computer science. He is the author of the
forthcoming book 'How to Invent: A Guide for Technologists, Innovators,
and Engineers'.
Prior
to teaching at Yale, Ms. Addington taught at Harvard University for ten
years and before that at Temple University and Philadelphia University.
Her background includes work at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, where
she developed structural data for composite materials and designed
components for unmanned spacecraft. Ms. Addington then spent a decade
as a process design and power plant engineer as well as a manufacturing
supervisor at DuPont, and after studying architecture, she was an
architectural associate at a firm based in Philadelphia. She researches
discrete systems and technology transfer, and she serves as an adviser
on energy and sustainability for many organizations, including the
Department of Energy and the AIA. Her chapters and articles on energy,
environmental systems, lighting, and materials have appeared in many
books and journals and she recently co-authored Smart Materials and
Technologies for the Architecture and Design Professions. She received
a B.S.M.E. from Tulane University, a B.Arch. from Temple University, a
M.Des.S. and a D.Des. from Harvard University.
