Sticky Innovation ENED | DAAP 3040
Class Final Project
During the Fall Semester of 2019, in addition to a study tour, I participated in a Sticky Innovation Engineering and Design Combination Course. Through the course, I was able to learn about the problem of colony collapse disorder affecting bees, learn and discuss multidisciplinary, approaches to complex “wicked problems”, and attempt both hypothetical and improbable projects geared towards producing a solution to this serious issue facing honeybees and the world’s agriculture and nature.
The multidisciplinary approach of the course gave me the opportunity to try approaches to problem solving I was quite unfamiliar with, meanwhile sharing the approaches I was more versed in with my classmates. I was able to interact and cooperate with peers from different backgrounds and walked away with a broader appreciation of professional backgrounds and their problem solving approaches.
This particular course was so enjoyable because it built upon a previously existing passion for beekeeping while also exposing me to completely different skills. I was able to study bees and colony collapse disorder in detail and share my own background knowledge. In addition, I was able to color and paint for the first time in close to 10 years. The Honors experience helped build existing passions, and perhaps even ignite new more unfamiliar joys.
I have linked my course web page as my artifact for this experience. It highlights all of the course projects, reflections, and lessons I was able to document throughout the semester.
The multidisciplinary approach of the course gave me the opportunity to try approaches to problem solving I was quite unfamiliar with, meanwhile sharing the approaches I was more versed in with my classmates. I was able to interact and cooperate with peers from different backgrounds and walked away with a broader appreciation of professional backgrounds and their problem solving approaches.
This particular course was so enjoyable because it built upon a previously existing passion for beekeeping while also exposing me to completely different skills. I was able to study bees and colony collapse disorder in detail and share my own background knowledge. In addition, I was able to color and paint for the first time in close to 10 years. The Honors experience helped build existing passions, and perhaps even ignite new more unfamiliar joys.
I have linked my course web page as my artifact for this experience. It highlights all of the course projects, reflections, and lessons I was able to document throughout the semester.
