Joran Booth
Joran is a D-PhD student in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue. He received his bachelor's in mechanical engineering from the Brigham Young University. His research focuses on how students abstract and solve complex problems in early design phases, with a special emphasis on functional decomposition and sketching/visualization. Other research interests include prototyping, engineering history, education, family science, and history. Joran spends his free time volunteering, playing board games, hiking, playing music, or spending time outdoors. His past projects include starting the Purdue Maker's club, various sketching workshops, and simple robots. He recently finished an internship at IMMI, a top automotive safety products company. Joran is a member of ASME and the Order of the Engineer. You can find more information at http://joranbooth.wordpress.
The Design For Additive Manufacturing Worksheet
Interventions for Teaching Sketching Skills and Reducing Inhibition for Novice Engineering Designers
Empirical Studies of Functional Decomposition in Early Design
Comparing Functional Analysis Methods for Product Dissection Tasks
Magoon Award for Teaching Excellence
Art Meets Engineering Design: An Approach for Reducing Sketch Inhibition in Engineers During the Design Process
Evaluating the Bottom-Up Method for Functional Decomposition in Product Dissection Tasks
Understanding Abstraction In Design: A Comparison of Three Functional Analysis Methods for Product Dissection
Makers’ Faire 2012
NERF Blaster Dissections
