About a year ago I received tenure. It was an unusual time, and I didn’t properly thank the people who put me on this path and made my success possible. This is a long, personal thread to express my gratitude. There are so many people I want to acknowledge. The thread is way too long. It mixes worlds. I’m not sure how to order things. I am sure I’ve missed people. A tweet seems trite compared to the acts of selflessness that benefitted me. But I wanted to say something anyhow.

Here are materials for a Junior-level course on mechanical design that we've developed over the past decade. It teaches a design process that combines technical and creative skills, using carefully scoped projects, without fancy equipment:

biomechatronics.stanford.edu/mechanical-sys…

Thread: The focus of the course is learning how to incorporate both creative and technical skills into design, in a process that combines intuition, ideation, simple mathematical models, computational analysis, prototyping, technical writing, and iteration.

biomechatronics.stanford.edu/sites/g/files/…