Prof. Julie Linsey
Dr. Julie Linsey is an expert in design cognition, design theory and methods, idea generation, and design methods evaluation. She is the director of the Innovation, Design Reasoning, and Engineering Education Methods (IDREEM) Lab and has developed new methods and evaluated existing approaches (Linsey, 2012a; Lucero, 2016; Lucero, 2014; Tsenn, 2016a; Tsenn, 2014; Tsenn, 2016b). She also has leveraged interview methods to identify learning in makerspaces and the pathways for women students into these spaces (Nagel, 2019; Tomko, 2019; Tomko, 2021a; Tomko, 2018a; Tomko, 2018b; Tomko, 2021c). The goal of Dr. Linsey’s research is to discover new knowledge about how engineers think and leverage this knowledge into design methods and tools to improve the engineering design and education process.
Dr. Michael Helms
Dr. Michael Helms is the Co-Director of the Center for Biologically Inspired Design at GT and has been working with industry partners implementing BID projects in industrial R&D settings since 2007. He is an industry liaison for the Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics, an NSF ERC now in its 7th year of funding (NSF #1449501), and performs a similar role for the Engineering Research Center for Biologically Inspired Realizable Building Energy Eco-systems, an NSF ERC in planning (NSF 1936903). Dr. Helms is a regular invited speaker at NASA’s annual Biocene Conference, a conference intended to bridge academic, industrial, and government practices in bioinspired design.
Kristoffer Sjolund
Kristoffer is a PhD student who has been working in Dr. Linsey’s IDREEM lab since 2021. He was the team lead for Georgia Tech’s student team that competed in NASA’s 2021 BIG Idea Challenge, where he developed a novel tool for astronauts to use to mitigate lunar dust for the future Artemis missions. Kristoffer is currently researching new models to forecast the evolution of technology ecosystems through the application of biological ecosystem models.