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CITRIS MacroLab: Societal-Scale Teaching & Service Studio. Project-based teaching facilities that draw on CITRIS research innovations to foster a multidisciplinary approach to service learning and multidisciplinary design "in the interest of society". CITRIS MacroLab Objectives.
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CITRIS MacroLab:Societal-Scale Teaching & Service Studio Project-based teaching facilities that draw on CITRIS research innovations to foster a multidisciplinary approach to service learning and multidisciplinary design "in the interest of society"
CITRIS MacroLab Objectives • Educate leaders & serve society. • Develop students' skills in team-work, communication, creativity and designing for human needs. • Promote excellence in the practice of multidisciplinary design and new media. • Expose students to real-world design problems, bringing concepts to reality, and making a positive impact on the world. • Create a generation of designers who lead product development and nonprofit initiatives.
Multidisciplinary Engineering/ Business/ SIMS Courses • Freshman design & analysis (E10) • New product realization: capstone design, social ventures, prototyping, testing, entrepreneurship. (e.g., IEOR 170, ME110, E110, BUS/SIMIS/ME290P)
Engineering, Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities Courses • Community-based design and service learning (e.g., K-12 “Communicating Engineering”, “Digital Kids”, organic architectures and forms, “Green Design”, sustainability course being developed by Engineers for a Sustainable World). • New Media Institute courses (e.g., Human Factors & Existential Phenomena, Dreyfus, Goldberg) • Film-Video Images of Communities of Color: Analysis and Video Production (Ethnic Studies 128/190)
CITRIS MacroLab • Instrumented facilities, Computational design & prototyping (CAD, imaging, multimedia, storyboarding) • Prototyping area and tools (rapid prototyping FDM/SLA, laser cutting, hand tools, sewing, breadboards, water/mud labs • Video-conferencing/ remote collaboration • Customizable design team space, modular movable furniture, partitions. • Plotter, color printers, drafting tables, art supplies • Contiguous outdoor space for organic materials, plants, fountains, wind, mud, sand etc.
Criteria for Use of MacroLab • Focus on developing students' skills in team-work, communication, leadership, creativity and designing for human needs. • Focus on real-world design problems, bringing concepts to reality, and making a positive impact on the world. • Involvement of multiple disciplines, particularly outside of engineering. • Priority for undergraduate courses or student initiatives that apply innovative CITRIS technologies in the interest of society.
