Timeline:

📆 Jan ‘22 - Apr ‘22

Location:

📍 Pittsburgh, PA 🇺🇸

Position(s)/Work:

👨🏽‍🔧 Technology Support Associate 🎛

Description of work:

For a long time, I have wanted to know if Innovation can be dealt with as if it were a process. Being at CMU, I thought I should be able to learn it somewhere right? Arguably one of the most innovative schools on the planet. Post some research, I found out Prof. Jason was teaching, one last time, his famous Grand Challenge Innovation class in the spring of 2022 at CMU. I had to take it. Unfortunately, I had already overbooked myself for the spring and could not have taken his class. Rather, I applied to help him with Technology setup throughout the semester! I got paid to attend his brilliant class. What more could I ask? What I learned:

• The formal process for innovation and ideation.
• User Research Methodologies
• Product Conceptualization Techniques (Importance/Difficulty, Decision Matrix, etc.)
• How to apply emerging technologies to solve grand challenges through a physical system
• How to set up dependable Zoom Sessions for large classrooms