Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

As I like to tell my engineering students, most of today’s wicked problems aren’t optimization problems; they are system and design problems. Data helps us figure out to eliminate unnecessary steps, improve productivity, reduce costs, etc. Think of the remote controls on your den table!

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In the early weeks we learn that our product won’t stand up to the sanitation requirements of the industry and we’re presented with real engineering problems in design and materials, but these are problems we know how to solve. So into the “Scoping” stage we go and the learning begins.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

Can you find some products or services that are over-engineered, over-complicated where high quality and ease of use could trump features? Dan Pink, known for his fabulous books A Whole New Mind and Drive , talked about 2010’s two Physics Nobel Prize winners, Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov, breakthrough in extremely thin graphene.

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