
January 2021
Launched in 2016, the Masahiro and Eiko Meshii Award recognizes excellence in design education. This year Professor David Gatchell, director of the Manufacturing and Design Engineering (MaDE) undergraduate degree program, was honored along with Matthew Glucksberg, professor of biomedical engineering.
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Northwestern Engineering

December 2020
Clinical Professor Dan Brown, director of Segal's Prototyping and Fabrication Lab and a renowned inventor, is among 175 new fellows in the 2020 class.
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Northwestern Engineering

September 2020
McCormick Design-A-Thon 2020, a virtual hackathon-style competition, challenged students to reimagine community in age of COVID-19. Segal students, faculty, and alumni served as mentors, moderator, and judges in the competition.
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Northwestern Engineering

August 2020
John Hartman, clinical assistant professor in the Segal Design Institute, participated as a judge in the FourC Challenge, an international design competition sponsored by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Design. “Futurebus,” designed by an international team that includes Northwestern Engineering student Ryan Teo, won top prize.
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Northwestern Engineering

July 2020
McCormick students Regina Morfin and Avantika Raikar are working to help the environment via the fashion industry with sustainable textiles.
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Northwestern Engineering

June 2020
June 2020 Segal Graduation Newsletter

May 2020
Three McCormick first-year students won the White Space Challenge for designing a natural air purifier that uses moss.
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Northwestern Engineering

April 2020
A five-student team from Design 384 proposed a five-pile system to compost Wagner Farm’s 50-50 manure-straw waste more efficiently by introducing air through a pipe system beneath the pile.
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Northwestern Engineering

April 2020
Segal Design Institute faculty and staff adopt distributed design tools to deliver coursework in the wake of COVID-19.
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Northwestern Engineering

April 2020
Northwestern Engineering’s Design Thinking and Communication course will emphasize labor-based assessments and iteration as it transitions to remote learning this spring.
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Northwestern Engineering

April 2020
COVID-19 leads Segal professors Dan Brown and David Gatchell to quickly adjust the capstone project at Northwestern Engineering’s MaDE program.
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Northwestern Engineering

December 2019
On December 13, graduating 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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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

December 2019
The MMM Program's Design Research course taught by Amy Schwartz provides a deep dive into the human-centric element of the design thinking process.
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the MMM Program

December 2019
Pam Daniels, a clinical associate professor with Segal Design Institute, cooks up an innovative design now sold at New York’s Museum of Modern Art store.
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Northwestern Engineering

November 2019
Teams representing the MMM Program took home the top prizes at the Kellogg Design Challenge in partnership with Amazon.
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Northwestern Engineering

November 2019
Chris Spaulding (EDI '19) interned at Milwaukee Tool over the summer where he was mentored by two EDI alumni.
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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

November 2019
Alumna Heather Stern discussed strategies to support gender equity in brand and design leadership as part of the Dean’s Seminar Series.
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Northwestern Engineering

November 2019
Morgan Lewis (MS EDI '18) designed a sneaker for her Industrial Design class and now it is available as a limited edition shoe on the Nike website.
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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

October 2019
To celebrate Homecoming, Segal Design Institute and the McCormick School of Engineering welcomed alumni and their families to its annual event, Prototype Purple, in the Ford Engineering Design Center.

October 2019
A team of EDI students were honored as third place winners for an innovative menstrual cup system.
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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

September 2019
The Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center underwent renovations to create more spaces for collaboration and innovation.
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Northwestern Engineering

September 2019
Northwestern and Design for America alumnus Anna Blakley shares her reflection after helping to organize a panel discussion on responsible design. The event was co-hosted by LinkedIn and Design for America.
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LinkedIn

September 2019
Fernanda Pupe Colaco (MMM '20) interned with IDEO.org over the summer. Her internship took her to Tanzania where she designed financial tools for street food vendors.
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the MMM Program

August 2019
Visual measuring cups designed by Pam Daniels, Clinical Associate Professor with the Segal Design Institute, were featured in The New York Times.
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New York Times

August 2019
Mark Carrott Odden (MMM '20) spent his summer interning with the Sephora's Innovation Lab, an opportunity that aligned with his passion for combining retail, innovation, and technology.
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the MMM Program

August 2019
More than 100 students from schools around the country will attend the Northwestern-hosted event from August 8-11.
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Northwestern Engineering

July 2019
More than 100 students from schools around the country will attend the Northwestern-hosted event from August 8-11.
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Northwestern Engineering

July 2019
Featuring greater reliability and structural stability, NUSolar introduced its new solar car at the Formula Sun Grand Prix from July 1-6 in Austin, Texas.
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Northwestern Engineering

July 2019
Jim Wicks, Director of the MS EDI program, moderated a panel with representatives from Uber Health, HopeLab, and the City of Chicago before an audience of nearly one hundred people.

June 2019
Fourteen EDI students enrolled in a course called Design Sprints developed projects for industry partners, including Kraft Heinz, Lurie Children's Hospital, and Actualize Therapy.
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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

June 2019
The second year of the interdisciplinary class, DSGN 395-64: Leonardo, Geometry, and the Art of Manufacturing, introduced students to hands-on experiences from an iron pour to creating pieces for an art exhibit.
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Northwestern Engineering

June 2019
Graduates from the Manufacturing and Design Engineering (MaDE), McCormick Integrated Engineering Studies (MIES), and Segal Design Certificate programs attended a reception hosted by the Segal Design Institute.

June 2019
Students in the MMM Program spent the winter term collaborating with Discover Global Network and Half Acre Beer Company as part of Business Innovation Lab, the program's capstone course.
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the MMM Program

June 2019
Northwestern Engineering students continue to delight Shedd Aquarium scientists year after year with innovative, collaborative solutions to important challenges.
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Northwestern Engineering

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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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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the MMM Program

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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the MMM Program

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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the MMM Program

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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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

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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the MMM Program

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Digital Learning at Northwestern

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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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

October 2018
The Masahiro and Eiko Meshii Award recognizes excellence in design education, honoring Liz Gerber this year.
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Northwestern Engineering

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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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

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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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

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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the MMM Program

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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the MMM Program

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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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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the MMM Program

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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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

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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the MMM Program

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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Northwestern Engineering

June 2018
Students in Northwestern's MMM Program combine design thinking and business expertise in a collaborative initiative with Visa.
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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

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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the Engineering Design Innovation Program

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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the MMM Program

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

February 2018
EDI students help solve human-centered design issues for undergraduate entrepreneurs working on startup companies.
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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Now

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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Northwestern Engineering

August 2017
More than 105 Design for America students tackled urban accessibility at Northwestern’s annual leadership studio.
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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Engineering

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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Northwestern Now

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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Northwestern Now

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
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.