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Just Released: Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding Report

12/31/2013

 
All,

During my time as a  Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellow and a J. Herbert Hollomon Fellow within the National Academy of Engineering (NAE),  I was able to work on the Roundtable on Technology, Science, and Peacebuilding that was jointly sponsored by the NAE and the United States Institute of Peace (USIP).

I am happy to report that the NAE and the USIP just release the Harnessing Operational Systems Engineering to Support Peacebuilding report this month.

I am so glad that I was able to contribute some chapter introductions for Kenya and Haiti within this report.

Click the link to download the report!!

Opening Ceremonies of the Co-designed Homes at the Pinoleville Pomo Nation (PPN) on Sept. 21

9/18/2012

 
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I'm pleased to announce that the grand opening of the co-designed homes at the Pinoleville Pomo Nation
will featured in an Open House next Friday, Sept. 21 in Ukiah, CA at 10 am.  

Please come if you can!!!

Since March 2008, the Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES) has been partnering with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation (PPN) near Ukiah, CA to co-design culturally-inspired, sustainable housing and renewable energy power systems that utilize sustainability best practices, renewable energy technology, and reflect the long-standing culture of the Pinoleville Pomo Nation.

During that time, this partnership has secured roughly $1.5 million via CITRIS, DOE, HUD, and EPA for construction and funded 2 PhDs and 2 MS projects in the College of Engineering and the Department of Architecture.

Two of the co-designed homes have been built and the PPN conducted “green jobs” training sessions on strawbale construction materials, grey water, and renewable energy systems for its citizens and local labors participating in their construction.  

This partnership has been honored with the 2010 Chancellor’s Award for Public Service in the Civic Engagement and has also been featured in UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering's Innovations (October 2008), College of Engineering's Engineering News (December 2008), College of Engineering's ForeFront (Spring 2009), and the University Relations’ Promise of Berkeley (Fall 2009). 

Also see Luce video of the project here.

Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES) and Pinoleville Pomo Nation Forefront Article Released Today

5/19/2009

 

UC Berkeley's Forefront magazine released an article today that describes the work that the Community Assessment of Renewable Energy and Sustainability (CARES) is doing with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation.

CARES has partnered with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation (PPN) to co-design culturally inspired, sustainable homes for the PPN. 

The homes resemble a yurt and will utilize grey water capture systems, rainwater capture systems, natural lighting, solar water heaters, PV systems, and geothermal heat pumps. 

The yurt design will also incorporate passive heating and cooling systems such as high thermal mass and solar heating as well.

The construction of the home is set to begin this summer.


Native American & Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA) May 21-23, 2009

5/13/2009

 

I will be presenting at this conference in a few days.  The full program can be found here.

The focus of the talk will be on The Pinoleville Pomo Nation – UC Berkeley Partnership to Co‐Design Culturally Informed, Sustainable Housing.

Contextual inquiry and Ethnography

4/23/2009

 

Today in my Qualitative Research Methods class, we were discussing to role of ethnography in new product development (NPD).

We read an interesting paper from Paul Dourish entitled "Implications for Design" that I really loved because it started a discussion about what is contextual inquiry (CI) and ethnography (EG).

In my view, CI and EG are both tools that can be used by engineers to design, invent, and implement new products.  These tools are used to understand the needs/requirements of end user groups, the relationships that end user have between products, and the importance of these relationships.

Understand user needs is important because at the end of the day engineers have to build something that works and can be sold to a target end user group. 

If the product that has been created works, but is not marketable than that is a failure.  Likewise, if you sell a product and it does not work that is a failure.   I will get into what "work" means in another blog.

There is, however, a difference between CI and EG and I always struggle with understanding where CI and EG begin and end.  

Both contextual inquiry and ethnography can be used to build new products, the difference it seems is  that the end goal of CI is to solely aid in new product develop while EG's end goal is to understand the relationships, dynamics, and importance between people and products.

It just seems that EG is just a more in depth study and analysis of the interaction people have with an object, people, and/or an environment.

I will be trying to further refine my understanding of CI and EG as the semester comes to a close, but I am really glad I took that Qualitative Research Methods class. :)

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