Graduate Design Research

NASA Grad Researcher

NASA design research work with the Convergent Aeronautics Solutions division, focused on identifying new aviation opportunity spaces. The experience included healthcare and food-insecurity design efforts, 90+ stakeholder interviews, co-design sessions, synthesis, and opportunity-area mapping.

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Research Frame

NASA design research work with the Convergent Aeronautics Solutions division, focused on identifying new aviation opportunity spaces. The experience included healthcare and food-insecurity design efforts, 90+ stakeholder interviews, co-design sessions, synthesis, and opportunity-area mapping.

  • Mission-facing problem space
  • Human and system constraints
  • Research-to-design translation

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Design Methods

Show how qualitative research, synthesis, mapping, and prototyping helped make complex technical needs easier to understand.

  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Journey or system maps
  • Concept generation

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Engineering Context

Connect the design story to constraints like reliability, environment, operations, safety, or maintainability.

  • Operational requirements
  • Failure modes
  • System-level tradeoffs

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Deliverables

This slide can hold final diagrams, design principles, prototypes, or presentation outputs from the research work.

  • Research synthesis
  • Concept boards
  • Final recommendations

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Impact

The research translated interviews, site visits, trends, and co-design sessions into opportunity areas that could guide later benchmarking and concept development.

  • Decision support
  • Cross-disciplinary communication
  • Future research path