Let me offer some supporting, positive words to Filippo
In response to my comment that engineering design is primarily about
optimization, Filippo wrote
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 9:21 AM, Filippo Salustri <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>
> Ouch. That hurts.
> Honestly, we (engineering designers in academia) are trying. My teaching
> and research in design intentionally excludes all optimization. I see
> relatively little work on optimization in our design curriculum generally
> in Canada. I also see very little reported on optimization within The
> Design Society and the Canadian Engineering Education Association.
>
> Industry is a different matter.
>
> But I hope that in a generation or two, our investments in education and
> training will pay off.
>
>
It is starting to. The Design Lab at UC San Diego is not a department, so
it cannot hire. Nonetheless, we have been given faculty positions that we
can fill if we can find some existing department who will hire the person
-- someone who meets both our needs and theirs. This year, we are
asking every department chair on campus if they are willing to take part.
Ten departments said yes. We have talked with all department chairs and all
of them understand that we will only approve human-centered designers.
Some chairs said that not all of their faculty were convinced, but a
sufficient number were that they wished to proceed.
One department was Structural Engineering. I was convinced that this could
not possibly meet our requirements. To my great surprise (and pleasure)
they made a wonderful argument about how important it has become to design
the entire system, not just the structural elements: the people who must
maintain it, service it, install it, and live within it (when the structure
is a ship or airplane hull, a building).
In engineering, the departments are bioengineering, computer science,
electrical, mechanical, and structural engineering. In social science, it
is anthropology and ethnic studies. (We already have faculty from
communications and cognitive science). And the department of medicine.
(Both Anthropology and Medicine also work in Global Health).
In other words, design is finding a foothold in many areas of the
university.
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*Faculty Jobs at UC San Diego*. To those of you who might wish to apply,
we are still getting permission for the exact wording of the advertisements
-- which is trickier than usual because the campus has never had this kind
of a search before. We hope to have the announcements posted in late
September or early October. When that happens, I will send a copy to this
list.
You can also check our website (designlab.ucsd.edu)
Don
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Don Norman
Prof. and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego
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