Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design

Last night, we partnered with .on.ecosia for a moisture sensing planter workshop! CEID design aides first taught participants how to program a microcontroller that lights an LED when plants need watering. Then, participants learned how to make and decorate their own upcycled planters!

CEID members making cement lamps at yesterday’s concrete workshop! Hope to see you at next week’s Wednesday Workshop!

Coming up next week is a discussion panel on Positive Sum Design. Join us at the CEID for an open discussion about the ways we might develop new design strategies that transcend zero-sum assumptions about the immutability of constraints, and the perception of scarcity that zero-sum bias produces! Discussants include Joseph Zinter, Assistant Director at the Yale Center for Engineering Innovation and Design; Ruth Schmidt, Associate Professor at the Institute of Design at Illinois Tech; Arthi Krishnaswami, Adjunct Professor of Practice at the School of Design, Carnegie Mellon; Will Rutter, MA ‘21 in Design from the Carnegie Mellon School of Design; and Ian Gonsher, Assistant Professor of Practice in Engineering and Computer Science, Brown University.

We hope you’re all having a lovely spring break! For everyone still around: the CEID will continue to be open 24/7 this week with shortened staffed hours 10am-6pm. No workshop this week, but here are some photos from last week’s polymer clay study break/workshop!

Thank you to everyone who attended last night’s workshop! We hope you had a blast learning about tools and making your own planter boxes! Stay tuned for more programming :)