Before I became the department head of the TAC here, I developed this digital fabrication and design program. A key hope when we designed the curriculum was that every piece of it has the thought process of, “Why? What material? Is there a better material? Is there something we can think about in design for reuse, recycling or recirculation?” For the manufacturing processes as well, we ask, “Is it clean? What are we doing with the waste?” It's all of those types of things.
I think that this core concept is a really cool opportunity to be able to share and export to other educational institutions.