peopleid=getQueryVariable("pid"); var pic_name; var name; var title; var school; var phone; var eaddress; var bio; var txt; if(peopleid =="0") { pic_name = "Team.jpg"; name="The Team"; title="Diversity Drives Innovation"; bio = 'Students, faculty, and industry coaches from around the world come together to form the ME310 community. While many of us come from different backgrounds, expertise, and industries, we all share the desire to design and help each other learn. Some of us have been part of ME310 for decades continuing the core design values, and some of us joined just this year bringing fresh ideas and new tools to the course. Our team is always evolving to adapt to the ever changing world we live in. Interested? Join us!

Select a team member to find out what makes them unique.'; } else if(peopleid =="1") { pic_name = "Stanford_Larry_Leifer.jpg"; name="Larry Leifer"; title="Course Instructor"; school="Stanford University"; phone=""; eaddress="leifer@cdr.stanford.edu"; bio = 'Larry Leifer has taught ME310 for over 20 years and continues to redesign the course ever year with new methodologies and technologies. Once a design student himself at Stanford University, he has started many design initiatives at Stanford including the Smart-Product Design Program, Stanford-VA Rehabilitation Engineering Center, Stanford Learning Laboratory, and most recently the Center for Design Research (CDR). A member of the Stanford faculty since 1976, his research themes include: 1) creating collaborative engineering environments for distributed product innovation teams; 2) instrumentating that environment for design knowledge capture, indexing, reuse, and performance assessment; and 3), design-for-wellbeing, socially responsible and sustainable engineering.'; } else if(peopleid =="2") { name='Mark Cutkosky'; title='Course Instructor'; school='Stanford University'; eaddress='cutkosky@cdr.stanford.edu'; phone='+1 (650) 725-1588'; bio='Mark Cutkosky decided to teach at Stanford after watching the ME310 final presentations in 1985. In addition to coaching the student teams on rapid prototyping and mechatronics, Mark heads the Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory where he designs haptic systems and bio-inspired robots such as the Stickybot. Mark is also the co-director of the Center for Design Research and has been awarded the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Fulbright Distinguished Faculty Chair, a JSPS fellowship in Japan, and the Charles M. Pigott Professorship. He can sometimes be spotted driving his 1974 Jensen-Healey convertible.'; pic_name='Stanford_Mark_Cutkosky.jpg'; } else if(peopleid =="3") { name='George Toye'; title='Course Coach '; school='Stanford University'; eaddress='toye@cdr.stanford.edu'; phone=''; bio='George Toye has been professional engineer, designer, researcher, consultant, entrepreneur, manager, and executive. Having worked on a diverse range of projects ranging from nuclear power plant control systems to digital libraries, he is a self-professed technology junkie — a perpetual misfit who enjoys mixing it up. In mechanical engineering circles, he is often labeled the "information technology" guy; amongst computer science folks, he is the "computer hardware" person; or to electrical engineers, he is the "mechanical" person. More often than not, he is simply one with a holistic systems perspective.

At Stanford, George has been senior research associate, associate director at Stanford Center for Design Research, and associate director of technology at Stanford Learning Lab. He returns to Stanford in recent years as Consulting Professor, while also continuing to do consulting and work on new startups.'; pic_name='Stanford_George_Toye.jpg'; } else if(peopleid == "4") { name='Luis Equihua'; title='Professor, Center for Industrial Design Research (CIDI)'; school='Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)'; eaddress='equihua@unam.mx'; phone='+(52) 5556220841'; bio='Luis graduated as an Industrial Designer and got his master\'s degree at UNAM, where he has been a teacher since 1976. His multidisciplinary workshop-studio at CIDI is focused on the design and development of products, addressed to students of industrial design, mechatronics, mechanical and industrial engineering.

He is the founder of CIDI\'s Laboratory of Object Kingdom, committed to study the way in which objects have changed; or by comparison with Animal Kingdom\'s members, the way in which they evolve.

Another one of his obsessions is silver. He teaches a workshop on the use of silver for making utilitarian objects.

Luis has designed several products ranging from spoons to urban furniture, sun clocks and LED lighting objects. He has also been a professional consultant to both private and public organizations in Mexico.'; pic_name='UNAM_Luis_Equihua.jpg'; } else if(peopleid == "5") { name='Elliot Motato'; title='Engineering Professor'; school='Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali'; eaddress='emotato@javerianacali.edu.co'; phone='+(572) 321.8200 ext.150'; bio=''; pic_name='PUJ_Elliot_Motato.jpg'; } else if(peopleid == "6") { name='Pia Helminen'; title='Course Instructor'; school='Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)'; eaddress='pia.helminen@tkk.fi'; phone='+358 50 919 5484'; bio=''; pic_name='TKK_Pia_Helminen.jpg'; } else if(peopleid == "7") { name='Maria F. Camacho'; title='ME310 Program Coordinator & Industrial Design Professor'; school='Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali'; eaddress='mfcamacho@javerianacali.edu.co'; phone='+57 +2 892 2664 or +57 +2 +3218200 ext. 136'; bio='Originally an industrial designer, Maria is now a designer, design promoter and professor of product, graphic and engineering design.

She divides her time between managing the newly created undergraduate program in Visual Communication Design at PUJ, coordinating and teaching ME310 at PUJ, and managing her own design consultancy, Camacho & Asociados, while Also having fun with music and photography!

She has travelled extensively, resided in London for 3 years completing her Master\'s degree and working at the Royal Mail, and lived in Barcelona for 5 months studying packaging design and having a great time.

One of the most challenging and enriching experiences in her life was working for a month with UNESCO on a design workshop in Uganda, Africa, with African designers and artists.'; pic_name='PUJ_Maria_Camacho.jpg'; } else if(peopleid == "8") { name='Carlos Serrano'; title='Engineering Professor'; school='Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali'; eaddress='cserrano@javerianacali.edu.co'; phone='+(572) 892.2664'; bio='Carlos obtained his degree in Chemical Engineering from Universidad del Valle, Cali and M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Notre Dame University, Indiana. He\'s had the opportunity to work as a teacher, researcher and engineer in the United States, Bosnia and Colombia. For 23 years and until very recently, he was the Head of Research & Development for the Rigid Plastics Packaging Division of Carvajal, S.A. Carlos is now an independent consultant for industry, academia and research organizations. He\'s also an undergraduate Art student!'; pic_name='PUJ_Carlos_Serrano.jpg'; } else if(peopleid == "9") { name='Lindsey Sunden'; title='Course Assistant '; school='Stanford University'; eaddress='sunden@stanford.edu '; phone='+1 (972) 900-2345'; bio='Lindsey originally took the course in 2007-08 and returned as a course assistant in 2008-09. After originally matriculating from GeorgiaTech, Lindsey spent 3 years working at Texas Instruments working for their DLP Emerging markets team. She spent her time with the Texans working on everything from developing thin RPTVs to industrial design of handheld projectors. After being enticed away from her job by the world of design thinking at Stanford, she was sucked into the delightful world that is the ME310 community, where she happily remains.

When not consumed by design activities in the loft, she enjoys spending her free time designing eccentric furniture and running long distances really slowly.'; pic_name='Stanford_Lindse_Sunden.jpg'; } else if (peopleid == "10") { name='Sushi Suzuki'; title='Program Developer'; school='Stanford University'; eaddress='sushis@stanford.edu '; phone='+1 (650) 567-1880 '; bio='Sushi took the course (2004-05), taught the course (2005-06), and after a short stint at DaimlerChrysler, now walks the world spreading the ideas behind and the fun that is ME310. Artist by nature, Engineer by training, and Designer by desire, Sushi is always thinking of new ways to do the old things better.

As a Ph.D. student at the Center for Design Research, he studies how designers design to design better design tools and improve design education (Say that ten times fast). When not worrying about making the world a better place, he likes to travel to esoteric corners of the world to work on his decade-long Street Photography project. Sushi once attended Rice University where he held the e-mail address sushi@rice.

If you are interested in taking the course or becoming a corporate partner, you should contact Sushi.'; pic_name='Stanford_Sushi_Suzuki.jpg'; } else if(peopleid == "11") { name='Dr. Alexander Zeier'; title='Course Instructor '; school='Hasso Plattner Institute'; eaddress='alexander.zeier@hpi.uni-potsdam.de'; phone='+49 (0)331 97992 561'; bio='Dr. Alexander B. Zeier graduated from the University of Würzburg with a degree in business management focused on information systems and successfully completed his studies in information technology at the Technical University of Chemnitz. He gained his doctorate in the faculty of information systems at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He has 15 years experience with SAP/IT Systems, started working for SAP in 2002 e.g. as director strategic projects for RFID. He is now Deputy Professor of Prof. Hasso Plattner at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Berlin/Potsdam focusing on Enterprise Platforms, Integration and RFID Technologies. He is the author of numerous publications, including four books on IT and SAP. In addition he is the Executive Director of the European Section of the MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation.'; pic_name='HPI_Alexander_Zeier.jpg'; } else if(peopleid == "12") { name='Vicente Borja, Ph.D'; title='Course Instructor'; school='Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)'; eaddress='vicenteb@servidor.unam.mx'; phone='+(52) 5556223007 and 08'; bio='Vicente began his studies on engineering at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in 1982 and …, he is still there. During this time he has obtained academic degrees, done research, become a lecturer and a professor, and has visited some of the most important universities in the word. During one of these visits he had the fortune of meeting with Larry who introduced him to ME310.

Vicente and three other faculty members integrated the UNAM Teaching Team and have led five teams of Mexican students on the ME310 adventure since 2006. During these three years, Vicente has had the opportunity to complement his experience and research on design with the ME310\'s approach to product innovation and education, to open new research areas at UNAM and undertake academic collaboration on product design with other universities.'; pic_name='UNAM_Vicente_Borja.jpg'; }else if(peopleid == "13") { name='Lauri Repokari'; title='Course Instructor '; school='Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)'; eaddress='lauri.repokari@tkk.fi'; phone='+358 50 367 5979 (FI) or +1 650 644 6003 (US)'; bio=''; pic_name='TKK_Lauri_Repokari.jpg'; } else if(peopleid == "14") { name='Greg Kress'; title='Course Assistant'; school='Stanford University'; eaddress='glkress@stanford.edu'; phone=''; bio='Greg Kress is a native of New York City with an interest in art, music and a strong DIY streak. After reading The Dancing Wu Li Masters the summer after high school, he decided to pursue a degree in Engineering Physics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His primary research was in the field of dynamics, in which he applied nonlinear feedback excitation methods for use in high-senstivity damage detction for the USAF. His lifelong passion for jazz and experimental music lent itself well to a three-year stint as an on-air personality at the freeform radio station WCBN 88.3 FM. Greg is also self-taught on several instruments and is regularly involved in dozens of other artistic media. Greg\'s scientific background, engineering intuition and experimental personality are well-suited to the culture of "rapid prototyping" in the ME310 community.

Greg is a second-year graduate student at Stanford in the M.E. Design group. Currently, he is involved in several research and prototype development projects, all employing or examining the Stanford design methodology. As a student of ME310 07-08, Greg worked with Audi to develop a "smart handbook" for the car of the future; now, he is a course assistant helping students to learn the process for themselves. The possibilities for the coming year are endless, and they include a cooperative development effort with the School of Education, an internship at Luidia, and ongoing product development.'; pic_name='Stanford_Greg_Kress.jpg'; } else if (peopleid == "15") { name='Denise Curti'; title='Course Administrator '; school='Stanford University'; eaddress='dcurti@stanford.edu'; phone='+1 (650) 723-9233'; bio=''; pic_name='Stanford_Denise_Curti.jpg'; } else if (peopleid == "16") { name='Octavio Narvaez'; title='Course Assistant'; school='Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)'; eaddress='ocnaar@gmail.com'; phone=''; bio='As if he was inspired by the 1984 Olympic Games, the year he was born, Octavio practiced Olympic gymnastics for fourteen years until he became student at the UNAM. Choosing the Mechatronics Engineering program seemed a natural step to take for a compulsive science fiction reader interested in the synergy of robotics, biomechanics, automation and control.

Octavio took ME310 in 2007-2008 and plays the role of UNAM\'s course assistant during the 2008-2009 academic year. He is convinced that working in multidisciplinary teams is a fundamental condition for reaching design innovation.

Ocnaar (Skype contact) is currently developing the control algorithm of a lower limb orthosis for gait rehabilitation as part of his master studies.

He considers music a polytheist religion, with Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Dream Theater and Frank Zappa among its gods. After exploring keyboards for two years or so, Octavio switched to electric guitar, his current approach to human spirituality.'; pic_name='UNAM_Octavio_Narvaez.jpg'; } else if (peopleid == "17") { name='Matthias Uflacker'; title='Course Coach'; school='Hasso Plattner Institute'; eaddress='matthias.uflacker@hpi.uni-potsdam.de'; phone='+49 (0)331 97992 566'; bio='In addition to coordinating the HPI portion of ME310, Matthias Uflacker is a member of the HPI research school on "Service-oriented Systems Engineering" and working for the research group "Enterprise Platform and Integration Concepts". After studying computer science at German and Australian Universities, he relocated to Potsdam to start research in the area of information management in knowledge-intense design projects.'; pic_name='HPI_Matthias_Uflacker.jpg'; } else if (peopleid == "18") { name='The Students'; title=''; school=''; eaddress=''; phone=''; bio='The students in ME310 come from all around the world and all walks of life: Engineers, Industrial Designers, and Economists are just the beginning. Some students have years of corporate experience while others just completed their undergraduate degrees. Equally varying are their passions: videography, globe trotting, toy design, rock climbing, wine tasting, etc. When so many people with diverse backgrounds and various perspective create a community, breakthrough design innovation is possible.'; pic_name='Students.jpg'; } else if (peopleid == "19") { name='Martin Carvajal'; title='Director of Design'; school='Mepal Carvajal, Cali Colombia'; eaddress='martin@carvajal.com.co'; phone=''; bio=''; pic_name='PUJ_Martin_Carvajal.jpg'; } else if (peopleid == "20") { name='Carlos Rincón'; title='Teaching Assistant'; school='Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali'; eaddress=''; phone='+(573) 17.645.3890'; bio='I was born in Buenaventura, Colombia and I\'m currently the 310 Teaching Assistant at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ) Cali, Colombia. My major is Systems Engineering and Computer Science and my minor is in product design. I have a deep passion for the innovation and creativity, this being my motivation to work with Bioinformatics since it is very important to analyze and understand biological problems from a computational perspective in order to improve the organism and life itself. I participated in the IGEM 2006 and 2007(International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition) at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

I\'m very excited with ME310, I think that it is an opportunity to show all the things that I have learned, in the university, in the IGEM, in last year\'s ME310 course and all the things that I have done.

I\'m very interested in the combination of the biology and the Product Design.'; pic_name='PUJ_Carlos_Rincon.jpg'; } else if (peopleid == "21") { name='Arturo Treviño'; title='Professor, Center for Industrial Design Research (CIDI)'; school='Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)'; eaddress='arqatrevino@yahoo.com.mx'; phone=''; bio='Architect by training, meddler by nature, Arturo Treviño for the fun of it, has developed three activities during his career. They complement each other and are related to communication and design: architectural design, museum design, which led him around the world, and industrial design teaching. As a teaching team member in 310 he enjoys working with teams whose design relies on global collaboration through the challenge of communication.

Arturo considers himself lucky as he has always been paid for having fun.'; pic_name='UNAM_Arturo_Trevino.jpg'; } else if (peopleid == "22") { name='Senni Kirjavainen'; title='Course Assistant'; school='Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)'; eaddress='senni.kirjavainen@taik.fi'; phone='+358 40 776 0449'; bio=''; pic_name='TKK_Senni_Kirjavainen.jpg'; } else if (peopleid == "23") { name='Mathias Domschke'; title='Course Assistant'; school='Hasso Plattner Institute'; eaddress='Mathias.Domschke@student.hpi.uni-potsdam.de'; phone=''; bio='As a Ph.D. scholar Mathias is with the chair of Prof.Plattner/Dr.Zeier "Enterprise Platform and Integration Concepts" and concurrently part of the "Design Thinking Research Program" in cooperation with the Center for Design Research at Stanford University. His special interest lies in the business viability and entrepreneurial strength of design led innovation.

He is an alumnus, coach, and research fellow of the global "ME310 Design Innovation" partner course, has studied in Potsdam and Stanford, and is a designated Master of Science in IT Engineering. Inter alia he worked with HP Ventures, Siemens, and SAP.'; pic_name='HPI_Mathias_Domschke.jpg'; } else if (peopleid == "24") { name='Evan Earnest'; title='Course Assistant'; school='Stanford University'; eaddress='eearnest@stanford.edu'; phone='+1 (717) 471-3222'; bio='After arriving at Stanford, Evan liked taking ME310 so much as a student (07-08), that he stuck around as a teaching assistant in 08-09. Evan is interested in applying and teaching the ME310 design mindset to problems outside of the scope of product development such as: cooking as a design problem, organizing a closet as a design problem, dealing with your in-laws as design problem, and the list goes on...

Outside of class, you can find Evan spiking on the sand volleyball court, triple bogeying on the golf course, or tossing a football with a few friends. During his undergrad at Johns Hopkins, Evan leveraged his personal interest in exercise to design a device that allows the users to propel baby strollers while running naturally (moving their arms), as opposed to pushing the strollers with their arms. Evan plans to continue designing his life experience by working at the biotech giant, Genentech. Maybe design thinking can help find the cure for cancer.'; pic_name='Stanford_Evan_Earnest.jpg'; } else if (peopleid == "25") { name='Alejandro Ramírez-Reivich, PhD'; title='Professor, Engineering Design Department. (DIMEI)'; school='Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)'; eaddress='areivich@unam.mx'; phone='+ (52) 5556223007 and 08'; bio='It all started in the Christmas of 1958, when out of the blue, 3 months before expected, Alejandro was born, giving no chance for his parents to even get to a hospital.

As a boy living in the countryside, there was no toy, animal or plant safe from his curious hands. His favorite game was to climb trees and discover the bio-mechanics of all sorts of bugs. Since age 9, he was surrounded by machines since his father owned a dairy company which later became his training floor.

Alejandro\'s formal studies began in 1979 looking for answers at the School of Engineering. He found not only answers, but also more questions and opportunities regarding Mechanical Design. He completed his Masters at UNAM and his PhD at Lancaster with Prof. Michael French. He has always been in deep contact with the industry, so the natural step was for him to become his own boss while never quitting his academic passion. Alejandro has had the opportunity to develop more than 250 projects for companies in Mexico, Germany, Australia, USA, Canada, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Argentina. Working in multinational projects has always been an enriching experience.'; pic_name='UNAM_Alejandro_Ramirez.jpg'; } else if (peopleid == "26") { name='Lynda Osorio'; title='Teaching Assistant'; school='Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali'; eaddress='lyndaop@javerianacali.edu'; phone='+(572) 892.2664'; bio=''; pic_name='PUJ_Lynda_Osorio.jpg'; } else if (peopleid == "27") { name='Ilkka Järstä'; title='Course Assistant'; school='Helsinki University of Technology (TKK)'; eaddress='jarsta@gmail.com'; phone='+358 40 873 4527'; bio=''; pic_name='TKK_Ilkka_Jarsta.jpg'; } if(phone != ""){ phone = " | " + phone; } if(eaddress != "Email address not available") { eaddress="" + eaddress + ""; } else { eaddress=eaddress; } if(name=="The Students") { txt="" + name + "

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