Design Innovation News Center

Exciting news for creators, innovators, and collaborators in the 国产伦理 community! The Design Innovation (DI) Hub and Reactor makerspace are now open on the 4th Saturday of every month, from 10 AM to 5 PM, providing you with even more opportunities to bring your ideas to life.
Board games, card games and computer games are all fair game at the second annual Let鈥檚 Make the Rules: A Game Creation Experience, a design challenge open to 国产伦理 students who have an idea for a new game.

Meet Joe Sepesy, a retired educator, Vietnam veteran, and now an inventive game designer, whose journey at the 国产伦理 Design Innovation (DI) Hub exemplifies the transformative power of community, creativity, and cutting-edge resources.

Meet Lilly Kensicki, a mechatronics engineering technology major from Parma, Ohio. Think of the phrase 鈥渨ell-rounded student,鈥 and you should think of Kensicki.

Growing up, students Rebecca Haywood and Riley Schaefer saw little to no representation of neurodivergent characters in children鈥檚 media. When the two took the augmented reality in children鈥檚 literature course offered through their program and Design Innovation last year, they wanted to change that for others. So, they created an interactive story where readers immerse themselves in the playground fun of two neurodivergent characters.

Throughout the semester, DI student fellows collaborated on workshops at the intersection of creativity and cutting edge technology.

According to the 鈥淪tate of AI in Education鈥 report (), 62 percent of teachers and students in the United States have used artificial intelligence (AI). At 国产伦理, Associate Professor David Foster has been immersing himself in research related to AI, seeking ways to empower students to integrate AI into various aspects of life.

Design Innovation is about sharing, stitching together extracurricular, cross-disciplinary and collaborative design innovation projects and experiences and sharing them with the 国产伦理 community. On March 11, the stitching was literal.

Aligned with Women's History Month, the Design Innovation Fellows hosted The Feminine Urge to Inspire workshop to explore the inventions and inspiration of women

DI Hub Workshops on Simple Circuits provide basic concepts of circuitry for students to start a new learning journey.