2011 results:
- you are: half undergraduate, half masters, with a few phds thrown in for sauce :)
- your areas include (of 34 respondents)
- CIT (7)
- Design (11)
- Art (4)
- H&SS (2)
- CS/etc (3)
- HCI (6)
- Other (9)
- Majors include everything from Engineering and public policy to creative writing to art industrial design to electronics and robotics
- Your skills include:
- 62% graphic design/visual design
- 53% programming (matlab/java/c/c#/embedded systems/hardware/flex/actionscript/python/arduino/python/processing/rails/css/perl/and many more)
- 41% industrial design/product design
- 33% woodwork/metal; engineering
- 27% installation/art/sculpture
- 21% arduino/hardware; education
- 18% matlab; fabrication
- less/other ... architecture; life cycle analysis; mapping; behavioral economics; leadership; photography; CAD; korean; sewing; beekeeping; hydroponics; ...
- Your programming classmates have done things including: made softwood projects with embedded electronics; built web apps; written a processing fabricator; created games; visualized music; written facial recognition software; written a stock watching application; written a linux kernel module; classified youtube videos by acoustic scene analysis; and written mobile applications.
- Your artistic classmates have done things including: implemented a solar micro pump for drip irrigation; managed a green non-profit in india; developed an environmental sensing map for Pittsburgh's live water sensor network; organized major park cleanups; designed instruments for using LiDAR (laser imaging and radar) to measure atmospheric variables; worked on sustainable transportation; founded a non-profit focused on sub-saharan clean water; have been developing a process for creating hybrid systems which layer the poetic and actual agencies of organisms, technologies, and humans; and worked on a project involving campus carbon calculation.
- Your interests include:
- 70% work in multidisciplinary groups
- 65% eco art & design; information visualization
- 62% use of local resources/recycled materials
- 47% behaviors & behavior change; sensing environmental impact
- 44% urban issues
- 38% lifecycle analysis; online information design; arduino/hardware projects;
- less: politics; green IT; citizen science; supply chain management; wind & solar; energy storage
- Your reasons for taking the course reflect your diverse backgrounds:
- more hacking tech.!
- Have content for my portfolio
- Marketing and promoting environmental ideas and projects
- a deeper understanding (less cursory, less conventional wisdom) understanding of human behavior and decision making as it relates to environmental issues
- a freakin' sweet project that addresses environmental decision making in a fun and unique way
- experience in interdisciplinary projects with students in other majors
- learn about urban environment issues and ways to address them through design
- I am looking forward to go outside my comfort zone and learn something different.
- To learn different ways/forms in which ideas can be expressed in art
- One aspect of this course that excites me the most is the diversity among students. Not since my freshman seminar classes have I been able to take a class with a wide array of majors, and I miss that kind of collaborative thinking and discussions brought by people with varying backgrounds.
- i don't really know what to expect, except to be thrown outside of my comfort zone and hopefully finish the course learning lots of valuable material.
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2010 results: Based on the survey results:
- your majors include:
- 8 Human Computer Interaction/Communications Design/Tangible Interaction Design
- 3 Civil and Environmental Engineers
- 2 Computer Science
- 2 Engineers (Materials Science & Engineering/Mechanical Engineering)
- 2 Art/Architecture
- 1 Public Policy
- 1 Chemistry
- 1 Product Development
- your skills include:
- 8 programming
- 4 LCA
- 3 graphic design/visual design
- 2 installation/art/sculpture
- 2 woodwork/metalwork
- 2 industrial design/product design
- 1 fabrication
- 1 education
- 1 engineering
- 1 architecture/urban planning
- 1 matlab
- 1 arduino/other hardware
- some of your many interests (possible course topics) include:
- 6 behaviors & behavior change
- 4 politics
- 4 life cycle analysis
- 3 online information design
- 3 working in multidisciplinary groups
- 2 arduino/hardware projects
- 2 green IT
- 1 information visualization
- 1 citizen science
- 1 use of local resources/recycled materials
- 1 sensing environmental impact
- 1 urban issues
- 1 supply chain management