Ibrahim Mohedas is currently a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the design of medical devices for resource-limited settings, particularly related to the use of design ethnography in developing these technologies. He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas, Austin in 2011.
Shanna Daly is an assistant research scientist and adjunct assistant professor in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in chemical engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in engineering education from Purdue University. Her research focuses on idea generation, design strategies, design ethnography, creativity instruction, and engineering practitioners who return to graduate school. She teaches design and entrepreneurship courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her work is often cross-disciplinary, collaborating with colleagues from engineering, education, psychology, and industrial design.
Kathleen H. Sienko is a Miller Faculty Scholar and associate professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at the University of Michigan (UM). She earned her Ph.D. in 2007 in medical engineering and bioastronautics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, and holds an S.M. in aeronautics & astronautics from MIT and a B.S. in materials engineering from the University of Kentucky. She directs both the Sensory Augmentation and Rehabilitation Laboratory (SARL) and the Laboratory for Innovation in Global Health Technology (LIGHT). SARL focuses on the design, development, and evaluation of medical devices, especially for balance-impaired populations such as individuals with vestibular loss or advanced age. LIGHT focuses on the co-creative design of frugal innovations to address healthcare challenges in resource-limited settings. Prof. Sienko has led efforts at the University of Michigan to incorporate the constraints of global health technologies within engineering design at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is the recipient of a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, a Teaching Innovation Prize from the UM Provost, and a UM Undergraduate Teaching Award. While at MIT, she was a winner of the MIT $50K Entrepreneurship Competition.
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