May 2019 Christy Zhang, Hanna Lauterbach, and Chris Spaulding (EDI '19) will represent their startup called Maya in VentureCat, an event celebrating Northwestern's most promising student-founded startups.
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April 2019 Baiju Shah, chief strategy officer for Accenture Interactive and global lead at Fjord, gave the talk “Design and Strategy: What’s Next?” as part of the Segal Design Leadership Series on April 17.
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April 2019 Students came together for the first-ever MMM Innovation Day on April 12 to hear different perspectives about fostering design innovation in business.
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April 2019 Working with Professor Bill Miller and researchers, four Design 384 students helped design a power system for the Array of Things sensor network useable in a prairie setting to collect environmental information.
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April 2019 A startup created by three Northwestern students won $10,000 at the 2019 SXSW PitchTexas Competition on March 8.
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April 2019 Shah will visit campus on April 17 to discuss how design can promote the fusion of creativity and science and lead to breakthroughs.
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March 2019 Pam Daniels, a Clinical Assistant Professor with the Segal Design Institute at Northwestern, was a finalist for the 2019 Global Innovations Awards for product design at the International Home + Housewares Show earlier this month.
March 2019 Northwestern students competed in the AbbVie Innovation Challenge on March 6, with a team consisting of three MMM students and a Kellogg MBA student placing first.
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March 2019 Twenty-four students from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and Segal Design Institute’s EDI program teamed up for Design + Law, an event that focused on design thinking as a problem-solving approach for legal service delivery.
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March 2019 Master of Science in Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) students worked with the City of Chicago to explore new ways for residents to engage with city services.
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March 2019 Meet the three newest faculty members at Northwestern to have joined the Design Research Cluster: Jessica Hullman, Noshir Contractor, and Nicholas Diakopoulos.
February 2019 In 2015, EDI students collaborated with the consumer products company to design a direct-to-consumer service called Tide Spin. Procter & Gamble announced it will roll out a version of the service to 2,000 locations by next year.
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February 2019 During the fall 2018 term, students in MMM's Research-Design-Build course partnered with DICK'S Sporting Goods and Lowe's Home Improvement.
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January 2019 Multimedia art projects created in the fall 2018 ‘Data as Art’ class will be on display in the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center until late February.
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December 2018 Eighteen EDI students presented their thesis projects before faculty, mentors, family, friends, and classmates at the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center.
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December 2018 The two-day event featured student work from Segal Design Institute courses and programs, including the MS in Engineering Design Innovation program, Segal Design Certificate, and first-year course Design Thinking and Communication.
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December 2018 Three undergraduate students from Northwestern Engineering will advance to the final round of competition in the Big Ten Student Design Challenge sponsored by Herman Miller.
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December 2018 Students in the EDI program benefit from intimate conversations with alumni about how design integrates in different fields. That's important in an industry where integrated design innovation skills don’t fall easily into one job category.
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November 2018 Thirty-six teams competed in the Kellogg Design Challenge to create solutions to reduce barriers to insulin pump therapy for Medtronic.
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October 2018 Twenty students in the winter 2018 Service Design course worked with Feeding America to create solutions to distribute rescued foods from retail stores to food insecure community members.
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October 2018 “Designing a More Authentic Life” was the first lab of Chicago Ideas Week, which focused on using the design process to create a more joyful life.
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October 2018 Founded at Northwestern in 2009, the national student group was honored during the National Design Awards Gala on October 18.
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October 2018 The Masahiro and Eiko Meshii Award recognizes excellence in design education, honoring Liz Gerber this year.
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October 2018 The EDI program welcomed 19 new students from 5 countries and 15 different schools to campus for Design Boot Camp, a pre-term session.
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September 2018 This past summer, EDI students interned at Feeding America, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Microsoft, and Procter & Gamble Ventures among others. Four students share their experiences.
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September 2018 Jeanne Gatto is Director, Innovation Strategy at Baxter Healthcare Corporation in the medical devices industry. In a Q&A, she reflects on her experience in the MMM Program and how it has impacted her career.
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August 2018 Richard Xie (MMM '19) spent his summer interning with the National Football League, working in Media and Business Development in both New York and Shanghai.
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August 2018 EDI students developed conceptual ecosystems for the consumer robot company iRobot as part of their course DSGN 455: Design Strategy.
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July 2018 More than 100 students from 38 universities across the nation will attend the Northwestern-hosted event from August 1-5.
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July 2018 Nearly 50 student-trainers help their fellow Wildcats with the safe and effective use of equipment in the Segal Prototyping and Fabrication Lab.
July 2018 Northwestern University's MMM Program celebrated the graduation of 58 master's students on June 22 and 23 as part of the University's 160th Commencement.
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June 2018 Thanks to a pilot course at Northwestern's Segal Design Institute, 11 Master of Science in Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) students gained a hands-on experience with Uber Freight's efforts to transform one of the nation's most critical industries.
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June 2018 This past winter, students in the MMM Program collaborated with NorthShore University HealthSystem, McDonald's, and Hormel Foods Corporation as part of the program's capstone educational experience, Business Innovation Lab.
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June 2018 Julia Savich (EDI '17) and Northwestern students with Design For America Summer Studio work to take the stress out of air travel for wheelchair users.
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June 2018 Students in Northwestern's MMM Program combine design thinking and business expertise in a collaborative initiative with Visa.
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June 2018 With a 3,000-degree furnace melting iron before them, 10 Northwestern students enrolled in a course titled Leonardo, Geometry, and the Art of Manufacturing participated in a centuries-old manufacturing process.
May 2018 The Design, Technology, and Research course uses a new, fast-paced teaching model to empower undergraduates to lead independent computer science research projects.
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May 2018 When Gar Waterman (EDI '18) is not busy learning about human-centered design during his courses for the MS Engineering Design Innovation program, he helps run a student-led startup called PedalCell.
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May 2018 Phoebe Evans (EDI '17) is a Breakthrough Technology Process Engineer for Mars Wrigley Confectionery. In her spare time, she has developed her EDI thesis project, Gumdrop, into a market-ready product.
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May 2018 Five MMM students are getting a chance to hone their entrepreneurship skills while competing in VentureCat, an event celebrating Northwestern’s most promising student-founded startups.
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May 2018 Founded at Northwestern in 2009, Design for America has been awarded Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum’s National Design Award for corporate and institutional achievement.
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March 2018 In a Service Design course, 20 EDI students developed new ways for Feeding America to get food into the hands of those who need it most.
March 2018 Alumna Hannah Chung’s company Sproutel won the Tech for a Better World Innovation Award at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
March 2018 A part of the Segal Design Leadership Series, Gilbert revealed the critical role that human-centered design has played in IBM’s transformation to become the largest design-thinking organization in the world.
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February 2018 EDI students help solve human-centered design issues for undergraduate entrepreneurs working on startup companies.
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February 2018 On January 27, seventy-seven students from Northwestern, Illinois Institute of Technology, Purdue University, and the University of Illinois at Chicago gathered on Northwestern’s Evanston campus to kick off the White Space Design Challenge.
February 2018 Gilbert will visit campus on February 26 to discuss how IBM uses human-centered design to develop products that address today’s complex challenges.
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January 2018 Interdisciplinary course’s five final projects on display until February 26 in the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center.
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January 2018 An interdisciplinary team of graduate students from Northwestern and Oregon Health & Science University took second place in the Student Design Challenge hosted by the American Medical Informatics Association in November 2017.
January 2018 Each graduating student from the EDI program completed a thesis project with support from faculty and industry mentors. The projects spanned multiple fields of design including product, interaction, service, strategy, and user experience.
December 2017 Insights and prototypes took flight in a MMM course called Research Design Build during the fall quarter as students partnered with United Airlines for a design innovation project.
December 2017 On December 8 at the Ford Engineering Design Center, graduate students displayed their projects at the 2017 EDI Thesis Show, the culmination of the students' 18-month academic journey.
December 2017 Walter Herbst, Mark C. Hersam, and Teresa K. Woodruff were elected by their peers for outstanding contributions to innovation.
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December 2017 The two-day event featured student work from several Segal Design Institute courses and programs, including the MS in Engineering Design Innovation program, student group Design for America, and first-year course Design Thinking and Communication.
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November 2017 Students from across the United States and Canada competed to find better ways to deliver information to millennial parents.
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November 2017 Vivien Ng, a Northwestern Engineering student in the MaDE program, conducted user research for House by Northwestern. Her research contributed to a solar-powered home designed and built by students.
November 2017 Graduate students from Northwestern, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon presented prototypes intended to help those with disabilities navigate urban areas.
October 2017 Walter Herbst and Amy O’Keefe work toward making design degrees more consistent among peer institutions.
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October 2017 On October 18, the Segal Design Institute received the Sr. Cecilia Fandel Award for Community and Economic Development from A Just Harvest, a non-profit organization in the nearby Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago.
October 2017 On October 6, over 200 current students, alumni, faculty, and staff celebrated Homecoming for Northwestern at our Prototype Purple event.
October 2017 A team of students from House by Northwestern competed in Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon, a collegiate competition that challenges teams to build a solar-powered home. Vivien Ng, a junior in the MaDE program, led on interior design.
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October 2017 The EDI program has announced Jim Wicks as the new Director of the EDI program. Before joining the faculty at Segal Design Institute in 2016, Wicks was the Senior Vice President of Consumer Experience Design at Motorola.
September 2017 The newest students in the MS in Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program completed a ten-day boot camp in design, mechatronics, and fabrication before the official start of their program.
September 2017 This year, four more faculty members have joined the Design Research Cluster: Brent Hecht from the School of Communication, Stephen Schueller from the Feinberg School of Medicine, Eleanor O’Rourke from Northwestern Engineering and the School of Education and Social Policy, and Madhu Reddy from the School of Communication.
August 2017 House by Northwestern’s ribbon-cutting ceremony took place Wednesday, August 23; next stop is the DOE Solar Decathlon.
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August 2017 More than 105 Design for America students tackled urban accessibility at Northwestern’s annual leadership studio.
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July 2017 The Segal Design Institute hosted the third Student Shop Managers Conference (SSMC), which fostered dialogue on combining theory and practice in education, as well as standards for training, safety, and operations in educational student shops.
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July 2017 James Kubik and Alan Besquin met as first-year students at Northwestern and they both majored in Manufacturing and Design Engineering (MaDE) through the Segal Design Institute. Now, they are co-founders of a startup called Somewear Labs.
July 2017 Michael Beltran is the director of the 3D Printing and Rapid Prototyping Lab in the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center at Northwestern. He teaches design as a concept integrated within product development, engineering and manufacturing.
June 2017 During Intersect CPG: Transformative Product and Business Model Innovation, a multidisciplinary course offered by the Segal Design Institute, graduate students from Northwestern Engineering, Medill and Kellogg work with coaches from Procter & Gamble.
June 2017 As part of a Segal Design Institute course, students collaborated with Northwestern’s men’s soccer team to develop a soccer trainer that improves field awareness and passing accuracy.
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June 2017 Segal Design Institute hosted an open house during at Northwestern's campus in downtown San Francisco on June 20.
June 2017 Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering celebrated the graduation of students from the MMM Program on June 17 as a part of the University’s 159th Commencement.
June 2017 Graduate students in the Master of Product Design and Development program presented their capstone projects at the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center in June.
June 2017 Students enrolled in the MS in Engineering Design Innovation (EDI) program participate in summer internships at a variety companies, including Autodesk, IDEO, Medtronic, and Procter & Gamble.
June 2017 The Segal Design Institute will be opening the doors of Northwestern's new campus in downtown San Francisco on June 20 as part of San Francisco Design Week. This casual open house will give the Bay Area design community a chance to get to know our faculty, students and alumni.
May 2017 Northwestern Engineering junior Sarah Lim won the ACM CHI 2017 Student Research Competition earlier this month. Lim has been working in Northwestern's Delta Lab, an interdisciplinary research lab and design studio led by Segal research faculty, to make web design more accessible for beginners.
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May 2017 Julie Hui, a Segal Design Cluster Fellow working at the Delta Lab at Northwestern, spoke to American Public Media's Marketplace about her research on crowdfunding.
May 2017 Northwestern student Jason Yuan created his own redesign of Apple Music and published it on Medium. In just a few days, his posted received over 250,000 views and attention from Fast Company Design.
May 2017 A team of MMM students that included military personnel identified cost-effective channels to improve user experience with Code Platoon, a Chicago vocational school that trains veterans through an intensive coding program. The student team tackled this project as part of Design 480: Business Innovation Lab, a unique experiential course for MMM students.
May 2017 With newly redesigned cars, Northwestern’s Baja and Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) teams are gearing up to speed past the competition. Both teams will race in three competitions this quarter.
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April 2017 Northwestern Engineering has several facilities for fabrication and prototyping. But how do you know which one is best for your project? Head to MAKE Northwestern, the University’s new one-stop information hub for all of its fabrication facilities and resources.
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April 2017 The automated lighting system Luna Lights, led by Northwestern alumnus Donovan Morrison, won the Audience Choice prize on March 30 at Cupid's Cup, an entrepreneurship competition sponsored by Under Armour's CEO. Luna Lights began as a student project in Design For America's Northwestern studio. Design for America is housed within the Segal Design Institute.
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April 2017 Held on April 1-2, the Rotman Design Challenge recognized a team of four students in the MMM Program with the best business and design solution on behalf of wireless telecommunications company and challenge sponsor TELUS.
April 2017 Students in the Engineering Design Innovation program collaborated with Dr. Ruchi Gupta, a Northwestern-based food allergy researcher, to address the vulnerability of students with life-threatening food allergies on college campuses.
March 2017 On February 6, the start-up Luna Lights, which began as a Design for America project at Northwestern, was named a finalist for Cupid’s Cup, an entrepreneurship competition started by Under Armour founder Kevin Plank. Northwestern will host the finals March 30 at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. Design for America is housed within the Segal Design Institute.
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March 2017 Anthony Jakubiak, an Engineering Design Innovation alumnus and Senior Experience Designer at SAP Labs, comes full circle. This quarter, Jakubiak is a co-instructor with faculty member Liz Gerber at Northwestern's inaugural Bay Area Immersion Program where they emphasize experiential learning.
March 2017 Milan Samuel is a junior in the Manufacturing & Design Engineering (MaDE) program. This past quarter, Milan participated in the inaugural Bay Area Immersion Program. Here is her perspective on the program.
December 2016 Four Northwestern students picked up the top award from the P.A.C.E. annual forum sponsored by General Motors, HP, and Siemens for their work as part of an international design team.
December 2016 Thirteen students presented their individual thesis projects, efforts that touched on topics ranging from education and healthcare to food and travel.
December 2016 The graduating Engineering Design Innovation students presented their thesis projects at EDIT, a public expo held at the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center.
December 2016 Segal Design Institute celebrated the newest graduates from our Master of Science Program in Engineering Design Innovation.
December 2016 The MMM program at the Segal Design Institute welcomed Josh Lucas-Falk and John Devanney of Moment for an event called “Integrate: Business + Design: How to get the most from your degrees in the corporate world.”
December 2016 Proctor & Gamble challenged student teams to design a new foot care routine. The winning team included Nick Anastasiades, Natasha Singh, and Tom McIntyre from the MMM program.
November 2016 MMM students organized “Hoot for the Homeless,” a fundraiser for Kellogg School of Management students. Proceeds were donated to Connections for the Homeless, a local non-profit organization.
November 2016 Students in "Designing Product Interactions" took a workshop in sound design led by Steve Milton, founder and CEO of Listen. Listen helps clients such as Microsoft, Tinder, Spotify, Virgin, and Audi shape user experience.
November 2016 Nearly 80 graduate students from four Integrated Design Innovation programs – Northwestern, University of Pennsylvania, MIT and Carnegie Mellon – were tasked to inject innovative design into medicine.
November 2016 Two students enrolled in MMM, a dual-degree program between Segal Design Institute and the Kellogg School of Management, were named 2017 Seibel Scholars.
November 2016 Engineering Design Innovation students targeted food allergy risks on college campuses with Dr. Ruchi Gupta from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
October 2016 Three Northwestern students formed a multidisciplinary team and took the AMITA Health Design Challenge, a 24-hour design marathon for the next generation of problem solvers.
October 2016 Students in the “Design Communication and Methods” course created posters for a non-profit organization while learning typography, color theory, and layout.
October 2016 Segal Design Institute celebrated Homecoming at Northwestern University by playing one-of-a-kind games during "Prototype Purple."
October 2016 Chicago Ideas Week inspired city residents to think, dream and connect during October 17-23. Eleven students enrolled in courses at the Segal Design Institute were among the crowd, thanks to support provided by the Norman Fund.
October 2016 Based at the Northwestern educational space in downtown San Francisco, 24 students – 12 each from the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science – will learn from and contribute to the Bay Area’s entrepreneurial culture.
August 2016 An undergraduate pursuing a BS in Manufacturing & Design Engineering developed informational road signs that promote bikers’ use of hand signals.
August 2016 Design for America's national Leadership Studio was attended by 110 students representing 33 DFA chapters. Students explored ways to improve the voting experience.
August 2016 Chicago innovation website features the start up and DFA project Luna Lights, a lighting system that ensures the safety of the elderly at night.
July 2016 In the wake of IKEA recalling a popular furniture piece over safety concerns, Fast Company features projects by students from the Segal Design Institute. Students focused on making dressers "tip-proof" for children.
June 2016 Family of emeritus faculty member Masahiro “Mike” Meshii (PhD ’59) have pledged more than $250,000 to endow the Masahiro and Eiko Meshii Award, which will be given by the Segal Design Institute to one or more faculty members.
June 2016 Jim Wicks, senior vice president of consumer experience design at Motorola, joins the Segal Design Institute as a full-time faculty member. Wicks is responsible for the design of many of the top mobile products of the last decade.
May 2016 DFA and Luna Lights were recently featured on "Big Shoulders" for their work in the civic technology space.
May 2016 Segal's David Gatchell and Liz Gerber are among five faculty members being honored with this year's Charles Deering McCormick Teaching Excellence Awards.
March 2016 This quarter-long program in San Francisco is intended for sophomores and juniors in McCormick and Medill, with a focus on design innovation, digital communication, and the intersection of technology, media, and culture.
March 2016 EDI alumnus and SAP Experience Designer Matt Glibbery helped design Super Bowl 50's Super Bowl City. Read this Q+A to learn more about his experience working on the project and what it was like getting to go to the Super Bowl.
March 2016 Segal's first session of "Leadership through Design Innovation" ended last week, and according to the data, learners were very pleased.
March 2016 JDF awards yearly scholarships to students who demonstrate a commitment to engineering and the development of new ideas. Meet this year's three scholars from Segal.
February 2016 Bruce Ankenman spoke with the Wall Street Journal about "Design Thinking and Communication," a course for freshman offered by the Segal Design Institute.
January 2016 Starting on January 18, Northwestern Engineering will broaden its design curriculum by offering a massive open online course (MOOC) called “Leadership through Design Innovation,” which will teach participants about the process and power of design.
December 2015 EDI class of 2015 graduated this week, moving the program's alumni count into the hundreds. Family, friends and faculty celebrated the students and all of their accomplishments in Ford prior to the ceremony.
December 2015 EDI class of 2015 culminates their 15-month program with final thesis project presentations with projects ranging from products to services to strategies.
December 2015 Segal hosted its biannual Design Expo in a new location this year: The Garage. Students displayed innovative designs and polished portfolios that they worked on all quarter.
December 2015 Segal's Ed Colgate and Michael Peshkin continue to lead the way in haptics technology. Their most recent technology, The TPad, allows users to feel textures on a touchscreen.
December 2015 In its eighth volume, Northwestern Research publishes a piece on the robust relationship between Chicago's Shedd Aquarium and the Segal Design Institute.
December 2015 Between their first and second year, MMM students take on challenging internships. Read about their experiences in this ongoing blog series.
November 2015 Segal's new course Design Thinking and Doing introduces students outside of McCormick to the design process.
November 2015 Segal Advisory Board member Robb Olsen talks about his role at P&G, the company's six-yearlong partnership with EDI, what it's like working with his wife and more in this Q+A.
November 2015 Due to popular demand, Segal is offering additional quarters of some of its most popular DSGN courses, as well as adding a couple of new classes!
November 2015 Students from Northwestern and the University of Pennsylvania participated in the third annual EDI+IPD 24-hour Design Challenge with this year's focus on emergency epinephrine access.
October 2015 Segal celebrates its third annual homecoming event Prototype Purple with students, alumni, friends, family and faculty.
October 2015 Segal celebrates two Research Council Members for their entrance into the Chicago Area Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame and another for her esteemed Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award.
September 2015 A new class of EDIs started orientation this month, learning new skills and creating projects that embodied this year's theme of Wabi Sabi.
September 2015 Answer this: What is design to you? That’s a pretty open-ended question, but that’s Professor Erin Huizenga’s intention when she asks her 60 MMM students the first day of class.
August 2015 This year's DFA Leadership Studio attracted the news team from ABC7 Chicago. This year students focused on finding solutions to make life easier for people living with Down syndrome.
August 2015 EDI alumni are finalists for INDEX: Award 2015, a global design award focused on "Designing to Improve Life." The winners will be revealed August 27 in Denmark.
August 2015 DFA has two new fellows! Learn more about them here.
August 2015 EDI student and James Dyson Foundation scholar Torey Kocsik talks about her influencers and what it's like to be a female in a male-dominated industry.
August 2015 NU and DFA alumni Hannah Chung and Aaron Horowitz show off their product Jerry the Bear at the first-ever White House Demo Day.
July 2015 MMM kicks off its orientation RSG by welcoming its new class of 60 with a bang!
July 2015 We're excited to congratulate three of our faculty members on huge successes!
July 2015 Segal Design Certificate student Jenn Murphy was listed as one of NU's outstanding seniors making "The Innovators" list.
July 2015 McCormick Engineering had a booth at Chicago's techweek this year where Segal promoted its professional masters programs.
April 2015 During this year’s DESIGN: Chicago, professionals from Doblin Inc., Audi, frog and IA Collaborative spoke about how design can be used as a strategic tool across industries.
March 2015 Greg Holderfield is director of the Segal Design Institute, clinical associate professor and co-director of the MMM program. In this interview Holderfield discusses what makes design thinking so valuable.
February 2015 Liz Gerber debuts her quick-paced design-thinking game Mockups to Segal students during event.
December 2014 The MS-EDI class of 2014 recently presented their final thesis projects.
December 2013 The MS-EDI class of 2013 recently presented their final thesis projects.
