Engineering Design Innovationat the SEGAL DESIGN INSTITUTE, McCORMICK SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING

Seth chose to pursue the EDI program because of his desire to be more involved in new product development in order to solve consumers' problems. 

Experience before EDI: BS, Communication & Leadership, Business, Entrepreneurship. The University of Texas at Austin. Quake Capital Partners Junior Venture Associate. co:collective Summer Intern

Sydney chose EDI because everyone involved is as equally passionate as she is in their particular areas of study. She is excited to be surrounded by these people in order to keep learning and develop her skills as a human-centered designer.

Experience before EDI: BS, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University
Research Intern, Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Center for Bionic Medicine
Operations Fellow, GlobeMed Executive Offices

Jesse was drawn to the EDI program because he saw it as a great opportunity for him to strengthen his undergraduate engineering foundation with high level design topics.

Experience before EDI: BS, Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University
Segal Design Certificate
Design Team Intern, Segal Design Institute Internship

Kevin chose the EDI program and its thesis projects because they will allow him to carry out extensive research and development on a topic about which he is passionate.

Experience before EDI: BFA, Product Design and minor in Computer Programming, University of Southern California
Product Designer, LavaLab
Teaching Assistant, USC Viterbi School of Engineering
UI/UX Design Intern, Circle for Roommates

Vanessa chose the EDI program because she wants to put people at the forefront of the design process.

Experience before EDI: Design Intern, Burro

Kayli believes that engineering and design are inseparable. After studying manufacturing and design engineering, in addition to psychology, Kayli knows that understanding the user comes first.

Experience before EDI: BS, Manufacturing and Design Engineering, Northwestern University.
Graphic and UX Design Intern, Spokin.
Design and Operations Intern, creative werks.
Manufacturing Engineer Intern, creative werks. 

Jeremy intends to leverage the EDI program to deepen his focus as a design engineer across the mechanical and electrical domains while building expertise in product management and design strategy.

Experience before EDI: BS Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University; BS Manufacturing and Design Engineering, Northwestern University; Hardware Design Intern, Bossanova Robotics; Technology Intern, Maui Greens

Miranda chose EDI because of its one of a kind focus on the human-centered approach and the iterative process of engineering design. It gives her the chance to immerse herself within the design world and find the exact aspect of device design with which she wants to center herself.

Experience before EDI: BS, Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Paige chose EDI because she wants to expand her skillset in design and build upon her mechanical engineering background. She hopes to gain a “Swiss Army Knife” of design tools to have in her back pocket.

Experience before EDI: BS, Mechanical Engineering, Northeastern University
Project Engineering, Hasbro
Project Management, The Walt Disney Company
Mechanical Engineering, Beyond Design
Research and Development Engineer, Loop 

Diana chose EDI to take her passion for design further and to better understand our collective creativity through human-centered design.

Experience before EDI: Packaging R&D Intern, General Mills

What drew Jean to EDI is the program's utilization of various disciplines with a user-centered focus to improve real-world services.

Experience before EDI: Product Quality Engineer, Ebco Inc

Sophie is excited that EDI will augment her technical background and give her the skills necessary to create change in the form of user-centered products and interfaces. 

Experience before EDI: BS, Computer Science, University of Notre Dame

Marisa chose EDI because she wants to better understand the interactions between humans and products. EDI also provides the opportunity to improve her technical and creative skillsets while exploring various forms of design.

Experience before EDI: BE, Mechanical Engineering, Dartmouth College
BA, Engineering Sciences, Dartmouth College

Yoonjie is passionate about human-centred design and creating services and products that make a lasting social impact.

Experience before EDI: BS, Manufacturing and Design Engineering, Northwestern University 

Liying chose EDI because it concentrations on Human-Centered Design. She is excited about the various disciplines offered in this program, which boots her passion for pursuing knowledge from multiple fields.

Experience before EDI: BFA, Visual Communication Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Digital Experience Design Intern, The Art Institute of Chicago

Julia believes that EDI is special because it offers the flexibility to choose on which skills and areas of the design process she would like to focus in her career.

Experience before EDI: B.S, Product Design Engineering, Stanford University 

Nic believes the opportunity to study multiple aspects of design from some of the best faculty in the world made the EDI program a natural choice for him.

Experience before EDI:  BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado
Engineering/R&D Intern, Specialized Bicycle Components

Justin hails from a business background, and he's interested in building technical skills in the field of design innovation.

Experience before EDI: BBA, Finance (Minor in Collaborative Innovation), Notre Dame. Finance Leadership Program, GE. Recent Startup Founder, Common.

Caroline has a strong interest in user-experience research and design, and believes that EDI will help her explore this field in more depth.

Experience before EDI: BS, Interactive Media Studies, Miami University
BS, Psychology, Miami University
Certificate in Human-Computer Interaction for UX Design, MIT

Elizabeth believes that, when you can truly see and experience the user's perspective, you can engineer the best solution for them.

Experience before EDI: BS, Multidisciplinary Engineering, Purdue University

Patricia is excited to take a deep dive into all areas of design after discovering multiple aspects during her undergraduate classes at Northwestern.

Experience before EDI: BA, Computer Science, Segal Design Certificate, Northwestern University

Caitlin chose EDI because she appreciated the curriculum developed for engineerings with an emphasis on solving the right problem and keeping the user at the center of design.

Yiwen chose EDI because it's a program that teaches students both human centered design and technical skills.

Experience before EDI: BS, Design and Environmental Analysis, Cornell University

Remy feels EDI will afford her the opportunity to anchor her academic discipline in human-centered design ecology and challenge her to become a better innovator through its interdisciplinary nature and uniquely diverse cohort.

Experience before EDI: BS, Neuroscience, University of Michigan

Gretchen learned of EDI while seeing the students during her job in the Rapid Prototyping Lab. Seeing them develop creative, useful, and sometimes wacky projects made her realize that EDI was the place for her.

Experience before EDI: BS, Mechanical Engineering and English (Creative Writing) Northwestern University