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Joaquin Moeller-Luzio, EDI '23Design Engineering, Consumer Products, Entrepreneurship

About

Throughout Joaquin's undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering, he has developed a passion for product design and usability. Joaquin is constantly observing everyday products and wondering what the designers had in mind as well as how the they can be improved. Joaquin's interest in product design and usability began when he interned at the Ford Motor Company researching human factors and ergonomics. Joaquin believes that design is what differentiates good from great products.

Portfolio

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Why EDI?

Joaquin's exposure to human-centered design was during his first internship where he worked for the human factors and ergonomics department at the Ford Motor Company. He worked on design research for the front row occupant ingress and egress experience. This internship gave him insight into how important it is to keep the user-product interaction in mind when designing any product. Since then, he has tried to approach all design challenges he has faced with a human centered approach. His experience with engineering design has gravitated him toward innovative human-centered product development, a topic he is now extremely fond of. When he began looking for graduate programs, he knew he wanted to focus on something related to mechanical engineering, but he also wanted a program that allowed him to merge the technical side of engineering with the human centered design aspects of product design. When he found the EDI program he knew he had struck gold.

Education

BS, Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Experience

Dual project internship at Argonne National Laboratory: R&D for the Interfacial Mechanics and Materials Group on wind turbine shaft bearings, and research for Carnegie Mellon and NASA titanium additive manufacturing joint project.

Internship at Argonne National Laboratory: R&D for the Interfacial Mechanics and Materials Group on wind turbine shaft bearings and blades, and designed a wind turbine blade fretting test rig that will be used for future research at NREL.

Internship at The Ford Motor Company, Human Factors and Ergonomics Department. Researched passenger vehicle ingress and egress movement.

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