Turn your research into a product or service

Fall 2014
Mon 5:15p – 7:15p
Studio 1
ME 350A
1 Unit
Credit/No Credit
Launched 2013

This 1 credit class is for graduate students who are passionate about turning their research into a product or service. This is a chance to explore the potential impact of your work beyond your lab or research group. We are looking for students from the sciences, engineering, or mathematics, or students who have business acumen or start-up experience focused on technology driven companies. If you want to get out of your lab, away from your machine, and start to design your future come join us. The class will begin your journey from research to product conceptualization and user centered design through exercises and group activities.

We’ll meet once a week over the quarter in 10 self-contained 2 hour workshops where students will focus on their own work as well as explore the practical applications of fellow students’ ideas, experience team formation and collaboration, and begin to explore product and service design. Aside from class time you will need to commit up to one hour per week outside the class on customer and market exploration. Advisors from industry and academia will mentor student teams. The class will be structured for individuals with team formation optional.

Apply
Enrollment limited to 40 graduate students. To apply: fill out the online application here: http://bit.ly/designxfall2014 and attend the first day of class on Sep. 22. The online portion of the application will close on Monday, Sept 22 at 11:59pm.

Teaching Team
Dave Blakely, IDEO
Jon Feiber, d.school and Mohr Davidow Ventures

Questions
jdfeiber@stanford.edu, dblakely@dschool.stanford.edu

Fall 2014
Tue/Thu 10:00a – 11:50a
Studio 1
MS&E 177
4 Units
Letter Grade
Launching This Year

Open to undergraduates from across the university, this course offers an immersive set of experiences related to creative problem solving. Sessions include workshops, field trips, virtual reality experiences, and movement exercises that reinforce lessons related to reframing problems, challenging assumptions, creative collaboration, risk taking, and building a culture of improvisation.

Apply
Enrollment limited to 24 undergraduate students. To apply:

1. Sign up in Axess for MS&E 177 Engineering Innovation
2. Fill out the application here: http://bit.ly/enginnovfall2014
3. Come to the first day of class at the d.school: Sep. 23, 10:00-11:50am in Studio 1. Applications close at 1 PM on Tuesday, Sept 23, right AFTER the first class. Students will be notified with admissions decisions by 5 PM on Sept 23.

Teaching Team
Tina Seelig, Stanford Technology Ventures Program
Aleta Hayes, Theater and Performance Studies

Questions
tseelig@stanford.edu

Investigating User-Centric Vehicle Design

Fall 2014
Mon/Wed 3:15p – 5:05p
Studio 1
ME 292
3 Units
Letter Grade
Launching This Year

Humanize My Ride is vehicle design targeting the extreme user. We will explore the relationship between specialized vehicles and their user’s needs, to inform a deep dive into designing and prototyping a unique purpose-modified ride for a new type of user. Using the design thinking approach, student teams will interview drivers and users of specific-purpose cars and trucks, and then build a deployable environment-vehicle for the new user. Teams will work collectively on different elements of one vehicle to test for their users needs. This project-based course is accessible to students of all backgrounds, interested in exploring and transforming the intersection of user centric design, automotive technology, creative customization and hands-on building. Class sessions will be held at the d.school and VAIL (Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab).

Apply
Enrollment limited to 20 students. Class is open to undergraduates and graduate students. Applications close September 22 @ 11:59pm. To apply fill out the online application here: http://bit.ly/humanizemyride2014 and attend the first day of class on Sep. 22 at the d.school.

Teaching Team
Michael Sturtz, ME Design
Mike Serpe, G Wagen Preserve Inc.
with special guest industrial designers from GoogleX, the PRL, the d.school, Tesla, Google’s autonomous car project, and the FBI automotive unit.

Questions
msturtz@stanford.edu

Movie Design. Take 2 weeks. Make 3 films.

Fall 2014
Oct. 23 – Nov. 2
Thusdays 6:00p – 9:00p
Fri/Sat/Sun* 11:00a – 4:00p
*Nov. 2, Sun 11:00a – 9:00p
Studio 1
ME 207
1 Unit
Credit/No Credit
Launching 2014

Apply design techniques to movie-making. Learn the ins and outs of high-speed filmmaking in the digital age, from writing & casting to directing, shooting, & editing. These techniques are useful whether you plan to move to Hollywood or create a video for the web. Project-based: students design, write, shoot, edit, and screen a short film in the span of one week.

Students should be prepared to spend significant amount of out of class work-time creating movies: especially during the week of Oct 26 and the weekend of Nov 1-2.

Apply
Enrollment limited to 24. Admission by application. Apply here: http://bit.ly/moviedesign2014 Applications close Sep. 22 at 11:59pm.

Teaching Team
Bill Guttentag, Oscar winning filmmaker and Lecturer, Stanford GSB
Scott Doorley, d.school Creative Director
Seamus Harte, d.school Storytelling and Media Curriculum Designer

Questions
sdoorley@dschool.stanford.edu