The TechMade initiative is a unifying design experience that equips Georgia Tech graduates to engineer impactful solutions to some of the most complex interdisciplinary challenges by strengthening connections between engineering design, fabrication, and digital engineering.
Goals
- Build an Engineering Design Community on campus
Cross-cutting engineering research with collaborations in complementary fields. An engineering collective with seminars, residencies, and advisory board. - Strengthen Engineering Design Curriculum on campus
Design thread for engineering students, including a junior-level course on engineering design, prototyping, and manufacturing that every student will have the opportunity to take. - Expand infrastructure on campus
Complementary makerspaces and the expansion of existing makerspaces.
Pillars
Making and Manufacturing
In-depth understanding of advanced manufacturing and hands-on fabrication to nurture intuitive understanding of manufacturing enablers and constraints
- Problem Framing
- Additive Manufacturing
Small Lot Manufacturing
Digital Manufacturing
Manufacturing at Scale - Empathy
Human-Centered Design
Qualitative design thinking to understand the context in which innovation is impactful, the users for whom it is intended, and the social impacts of responsible design
- Problem Framing
- Creativity
- Empathy
Digital Engineering
Quantitative, data-driven expertise for modeling, analyzing, and solving inverse problems with the latest algorithms and AI/ML approaches
- Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
- Data Science
- Optimization
- Modeling
Community Partners
Flowers Invention Studio
The Invention Studio is a student-run makerspace open to the Georgia Tech community. It is staffed by Prototyping Instructors, student volunteers who are on hand to train you and help with your projects. Use of the Studio is free for all students, faculty and staff of Georgia Tech, regardless of year, major, or prior experience.
Capstone Design Expo
Capstone Design is a culminating course offered to undergraduate students in several disciplines at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Students work in teams to design, build, and test prototypes with real world applications. At the end of each semester students showcase their efforts at the “Capstone Design Expo”.
Interested in joining as a community partner?