Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Ian Gonsher does research and teaches at Brown University focused on the design process and creative practice, including Design Studio and Entrepreneurship Engineering Design projects in the School of Engineering and Designing Humanity-Centered Robots in Computer Science with Michael Littman where Legos are prototyping tools.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Ian Gonsher does research and teaches at Brown University focused on the design process and creative practice, including Design Studio and Entrepreneurship Engineering Design projects in the School of Engineering and Designing Humanity-Centered Robots in Computer Science with Michael Littman where Legos are prototyping tools.

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Engineering Workshop Magazine Creativity 70

Mills Scofield

JANUARY 28, 2014

Anish Sarma , a volunteer at SpeakYourMind Foundation (SYMF) and research engineer at Braingate , tells us. As an engineer, I''m as enthusiastic about innovation as anyone. If you ever wondered about the power of innovation to radically change lives, wonder no more. Disclosure: I''m a volunteer and unabashed shill for SpeakYourMind.).

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 24, 2013

The latest post , co-authored with Ian Gonsher , Associate Director of the Brown Creative Mind Initiative and on the faculty in the School of Engineering at Brown University, in Harvard Business Review. Adjacent Possibles Brown University Culture Ian Gonsher Innovation Lateral Thinking Leadership'

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Mills Scofield

MAY 13, 2019

The class was called Iterative Design of Retail Value Propositions and Experiences - a blend of design and engineering. May 2019 : It has already been a year since I was persuaded to take a class Deb introduced to me my second semester senior spring [2018].

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 27, 2014

At the start of the year, Whatsapp had more than 450 million users, all built and supported with a team of just 32 engineers. A young startup, Whatsapp, figured out that we have changed the way we communicate and want to share images, video and audio media over the internet across multiple platforms.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

My mentee, Sarah, was a Mechanical Engineering major from the Boston area and leader on the Women's Crew Team. Last year, I volunteered to participate in Brown University's Women's Launchpad Program which pairs women alumni in industry (me) with senior women for mentoring in career and graduate school planning.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In true Brown fashion, we had an astrophysicist, a philosopher, two biomedical engineers, and an international development major (me). Our group formed simply by where we were sitting around the design table and spoke to the diverse array of backgrounds in the class. Our initial reaction was to go large scale.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In 1938, a Category 5 hurricane, “ The Great New England Hurricane ”, literally reshaped the coastline of Rhode Island…so much so that the US Army Corp of Engineers had to redraw the national maps of New England. It killed about 700 people, cost about $39.2B

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Mills Scofield

MAY 13, 2012

What was a ‘job shop’ is now a high-tech and biomedical design and engineering company with rapid prototyping/additive manufacturing up to full-scale injection molding capabilities. 3 rd Generation Matt Hlavin decided to create a 61yr old startup. He reinvented the entire business model and the company is growing exponentially.

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 31, 2014

1] Former Chilean engineer, entrepreneur, cabinet minister of Salvador Allende and political prisoner. Assertion Assessment Authenticity Culture Fernando Flores Integrity Leadership Strategy'

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Mills Scofield

DECEMBER 10, 2013

In one of my first projects at Bell Labs, I was the system engineer on three different messaging services. We can see clearly today how the walls are crumbling. My husband tells me I ask Why too often. Why is how we learn, discover, and challenge the Status Quo.

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Human Capital Constraint Media Banking 141

Mills Scofield

JUNE 24, 2013

design and engineering), and experiment and iterate instead of perfect. That binary world doesn’t exist anymore and actually, never did. It was an illusion that lasted a century. Increasingly, we define our jobs, blur lines of responsibility, integrate once discrete disciplines (e.g.,

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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

MARCH 5, 2015

This exceptionally well-engineered automobile is both ready for the high-speed straightaway as well as the curves, redirections and sudden changes of speed required to drive the rocky road to tomorrow. That does not mean that what’s needed is a new car and a new driver.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

My uncle pushes engineering. Not exactly resounding support. As a college student in this technological era, I’ve felt the constant burden of having to pursue a “practical” degree. My brother insists I take computer science.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 5, 2015

My uncle pushes engineering. Not exactly resounding support. As a college student in this technological era, I’ve felt the constant burden of having to pursue a “practical” degree. My brother insists I take computer science.

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 23, 2015

Computer science and engineering students caught the spark, developing tools to track and repair equipment so it could be up and running to save and heal lives. Jayson Marwaha and Han Sheng Chia started MED-International as sophomores in college providing medical equipment and tools for maintenance in emerging markets.

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 5, 2015

This exceptionally well-engineered automobile is both ready for the high-speed straightaway as well as the curves, redirections and sudden changes of speed required to drive the rocky road to tomorrow. That does not mean that what’s needed is a new car and a new driver.

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Mills Scofield

MARCH 23, 2015

Computer science and engineering students caught the spark, developing tools to track and repair equipment so it could be up and running to save and heal lives. Jayson Marwaha and Han Sheng Chia started MED-International as sophomores in college providing medical equipment and tools for maintenance in emerging markets.

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Mills Scofield

MAY 29, 2013

I told my Middle Eastern parents that I wouldn''t be pursuing the traditional routes of doctor, lawyer, or engineer and left home to pursue a degree and work in education. Their influence was so great that I wanted my career path to follow their footsteps. student community center, complete with a theatre, cafe, and hangout space.

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Mills Scofield

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

We run a summer fellowship that immerses young diaspora leaders in Manila’s social sector - then launches them back into their global communities to engineer this reconnection at scale. Our program is part of the service learning field, which is in midway through a quiet but significant shift in identity.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

Additional support turning great ideas into actual products can play a big part in strengthening our innovation engine. We’d look to the incubator to further sponsor ideas originating from Genecians.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 15, 2013

He was an experienced forestry engineer who had managed a number of different cacao and coffee projects in the region. This analogy for me is the most concrete rationale for the true value of diversity I’ve encountered. Our first hire in Ecuador was a great man named Fausto. We met Fausto through a friend of a friend of a friend.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 26, 2014

Springsteen has always been insistent and clear--with his band, producers, engineers, and audiences--about the sounds inside his head that he’s trying to recreate. The skill of clarifying expectations involves both advocacy for your own point of view and inquiry about what others want.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

Brown has shown us that the very engine of discovery and insight, of progress and justice, of our future and the world's is our fearless, relentless questioning. Every day, we’ve challenged each other to take no observation, no dominant narrative, no established truth at face value. This is our greatest power.

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 23, 2015

Brown has shown us that the very engine of discovery and insight, of progress and justice, of our future and the world's is our fearless, relentless questioning. Every day, we’ve challenged each other to take no observation, no dominant narrative, no established truth at face value. This is our greatest power.

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Class Education Construction McKinsey 70

Mills Scofield

JUNE 30, 2015

It's Science, Technology, Engineering (how the body works in the case of biological systems) and Math. No matter what your profession or passion, design is a part of it, even the most STEM'y ones. Allison Chen , RISD '15, believes that scientific illustration is a definition of STEAM. and she's right!

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Mills Scofield

JUNE 30, 2015

It's Science, Technology, Engineering (how the body works in the case of biological systems) and Math. No matter what your profession or passion, design is a part of it, even the most STEM'y ones. Allison Chen , RISD '15, believes that scientific illustration is a definition of STEAM. and she's right!

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Film Definition Transportation Video 70

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? Lesson 2: Teach your tongue to say “I don’t know” and we will progress. Experiment : More is not always better. Where you could provide real benefit for your customers?

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