Human-centered Design
From: McCormick Magazine - Fall 2010
By: Emily Ayshford

Undergraduates are finding whole-brain solutions for those who need them most 

From the first-year Engineering Design Communication sequence to upper-level
courses and certificates in the Segal Design Institute, Northwestern
University's McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science encourages
students to take on special client-based projects in which they diagnose
design problems and find solutions. Not every project is an immediate
success; some take years and several different groups attempting different
solutions. But many have the right mix of student motivation, analysis, and
creativity that gives clients -- whether an autistic child, a scuba diver who
was born without arms, or employees at a nonprofit botanical garden --
practical ways to make things easier. 

Read the entire article at:
http://magazine.mccormick.northwestern.edu/fall2010/humandesign.html

Links:
Engineering Design and Communication
http://www.segal.northwestern.edu/undergraduate/edc/

Bruce Ankenman
http://www.segal.northwestern.edu/people/2/