Associate Professor
Mani Mina PhD
Associate Professor, Industrial Design
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Other
Mailing Address
Industrial Design Department
158 College of Design
Ames, IA, 50011
Contact Information
Phone: N/A
Email: mmina@iastate.edu
Office: 341 Durham
Research Interests
- Human Side of Engineering
- Role of Technological and Engineering Literacy and philosophy in Design Education
- Technological and Engineering Literacy a Social Justice challenge and Why should designers lead this effort
- Challenges of creating Empathetic classes in Design and Engineering curricula
- Design Activities from two perspectives: College of Design and Engineering, connections and distinction
Current Projects
- Industrial Design, as the human side of engineering: A practical and Epistemological Challenge, finding Distinctions and Connections
- Empathy, Social Justice, and Technological and Engineering literacy, how design can break barriers, and impact a more inclusive culture
- Deweyan Philosophical PErspective and Design and Design Education