"Could you respond . please" or "Could you please respond . " -- which sounds less "yelling"? They're both intended to be polite! No difference? I've always wondered.

I doubt I need to press the Eject button to disconnect my iPhone, but I think it's nice that they still have that symbol for those who remember the "blue screen of death" or similar when you didn't ask the operating system for permission to remove a device.

Engineering design professor thought for 2.5 years that the valve on the hot water dispenser was broken. Nope. He needed to learn how to use the safety feature (and put on his glasses).

Based on my results from the Cringe Quiz in this article I better practice my Gen Z speak before I teach the first-year engineering course next term @OregonState.

Paper with @agnesguenther and @BorisEisenbart "Creativity and successful product concept selection for innovation" ( received a Distinguished Paper award for 2021 from editors of International Journal of Design Creativity and Innovation.

I have two metaphors to describe my professional life this year. 1. I am the sweeper in curling. 2. Hanging chads.

I will do it this morning = I will do it this afternoon. I will do it this afternoon = I will do it after work. I will do it after work = I will do it tomorrow. I will do it tomorrow = I will do it sometime this week. I will do it sometime this week = Ask next month.

Monday reflection - remember - MacOS and Windows still don't really get along! And don't wear new shoes with old socks = blisters.

Why do all my Apple devices decide to update right before an important meeting? « About 4 minutes remaining. »

I've been trying not to think about this because it's way too sad and way too "close to home". This picture sums up how my family fled Vietnam in 1975.

RT @MarcusReports: JUST IN: "The Crew made the decision to go" — Inside RCH 871, which saved 640 from the Taliban . from @TaraCopp and me….

Congratulations to Dr. Julie Tucker Associate Professor @EngineeringOSU and Director of the Materials Science Program named one of 27 fellows in the third cohort of the @NSF sponsored IAspire Leadership Academy

Congratulations to lead author Dr. Bradley Camburn from @EngineeringOSU School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering for winning the 2020 @ASMEJournals Editors’ Choice Paper Award for "Machine Learning-Based Design Concept Evaluation"

Why put a button with a sign on it that instructs, "Do not push the button"? This is an example from Transport for New South Wales, Australia.

To use in design courses for examples of not taking into consideration mental models

Building on 34 years of experience saving small-medium sized manufacturers and commercial building owners money by reducing energy and advancing #SmartManufacturing in the #PNW @EngineeringOSU was selected for the 2021-2026 US DOE @IACprogram! Join us at

design needs "a shift in perspective: from understanding disability as a personal flaw due to a bodily limitation" and a "design culture revolving around solving disability-related 'problems', to considering disability (experience) as not-a-problem, but an inspiration for design".

Taking inspiration from a quote in PhD thesis by Natalia Pérez Liebergesell for @EngineeringOSU Engineering+ first-year course on engineering design:.

Congratulations to @kagan_tumer and @naomi_fitter @EngineeringOSU Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute on their @NSF #AI Institute for Collaborative Assistance and Responsive Interaction for Networked Groups (AI-CARING)

I wondered when a drama series would be made about academic life and in particular the life of a department chair