Ying-Hao Juan

Lead all design efforts including Industrial Design, Design Research and Design for Education.

As an instructor, I bring my professional experience to provide students a wide range of opportunities to explore and define themselves as designers. My personal interest is in educational strategies, techniques and materials with focus on kindergarten and elementary school learning needs. Building on this interest, I ran several programs involving my design students and various kindergartens to create a collaboration where design students interact with teachers and children, observe and discover learning needs and prototype and test design concepts to experience user-centered design process. I have also planned and hosted international workshops with partnering schools, led teams of students to plan and execute design exhibitions locally and internationally, and led collaborative Design Research projects with Taiwanese industry-leading corporations.

Classes and skill sets that I have been responsible in conducting include: Product Design Studio classes, Design Drafting, Visual Communication, Design Communication techniques, Introductory NURBs application and model making techniques.

Collaboration project partners include: HIWIN Technologies CORP. and CST Maxxis Tires.

Awarded 2015 Shih Chien University Teacher of the year

The main role of my national service in Taiwan is working as a teaching assistance in an elementary school to promote the English language. The students are mostly under privileged kids who come from low-income, single parent families, or raised by their grandparents only. I bring my professional experiences in design to teaching using workshop organization skills to design and run various learning camps and workshops where I focus on improving students' ability to generate content. I also arrange cultural exchange sessions between my international buddies and the students using video chat to expose the students to cultures far away, emphasizing on the importance of the English language as a vital tool for reaching beyond their own world.

As a part of the design team, I am responsible for leading Industrial Design efforts of public safety communication products programs, including portable radios, accessories as well as in-car data collection and recording devices. Involvement includes assisting research and provide feedback to business team, execute design efforts and work closely with Human Factors experts and engineers towards production.

Participated in various categories of product design, including consumer electronics, peripherals and accessories, fast food structural packaging and health care. Roles included research, conceptualization, workshop preparation and participation as well as design execution.

Lead and provide support on various projects under the KitchenAid brand.

Worked with clients to conceptualize and visualize business and product propositions through illustrations and storyboards, using them as a vital communication tool to convey the value of the propositions to potential investors. Also generated concepts through sketches and CAD for user scenario simulations.

Operation and Maintenance of CNC Machine.

Participated in design activities in various product categories including cooking, refrigeration and fabric care.

Provided assistance in various projects, including orbital sander concepts, radio concepts, headset concepts etc.

Engaged in various projects including concepts for E-Ink and OLPC, production work for Fellowes as well as participated in Design Research projects and workshops.

Participated in initial ideation of various projects including Mobile Phone, television set, projector, beauty appliance and computer monitor.