COOS BAY, OR – Southwestern Oregon Community College invites the community to join us on Wednesday, September 18, 2024, 6:00 pm, for our new Engineering Lecture “Design: The Ultimate Human Activity” with Dr. John Reis, Professor Emeritus, Department of Engineering, East Carolina University. This is a free event; all ages are welcome.
Coos County residents can join us in-person in the Umpqua Hall lecture room (room 184) on the Coos Campus, 1988 Newmark Ave., Coos Bay.
Curry County residents can join us for a watch party in the Community Room on the Curry Campus, 96082 Lone Ranch Parkway, Brookings.
For those not able to attend in person the lecture will be streamed live on the College’s YouTube channel at: www.youtube.com/@southwesternOR/streams.
About the Lecture:
Everybody designs: from artists to engineers, from retail workers to homemakers. We design our days; we design our lives. This presentation will explain how anybody can enrich their professional and personal lives through improved design activities. The starting point is to think about how we are thinking (metacognition). Next, the three universal design activities will be discussed: clarify an ambiguous situation (what do we really, really want?), generate ideas (where do ideas come from anyway?), and decide what we will do (do we even understand how we make decisions?) These design principles apply to everyone and to everything. Design is truly the ultimate human activity.
About the Presenter:
Dr. John Reis attended both the University of Oregon and Oregon State University, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Engineering. He then went on to obtain his Master of Science and Doctorate degrees from Stanford University. After working in industry, he had a diverse academic career that included the University of Texas at Austin, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Western Kentucky University, and East Carolina University. He recently retired and settled in Coos Bay. He has extensive design experience, both professionally as a design engineer and artistically as a painter, musician, and author. Dr. Reis recently published “Advanced Design: Universal Principles for All Disciplines” which can be found on Amazon.
For more information on upcoming lectures contact Krystal Hopper Meyers, STEAM Pathways Assistant, at 541-888-7416, or krystal.hopper@socc.edu.
To learn more about STEM degrees at Southwestern visit: https://www.socc.edu/programs-classes/stem/.
