Kelly G. Hering
engineer with a right brain
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Evernote Mind Mapping Mockup
Posted on March 15, 2014
Below are mockups and a README for an Evernote Research and Mind Mapping Tool for a class assignment. For the fully annotated version, you can download it here: Evernote_Research_final. The notes should show up in Acrobat or Preview.
Stop Motion Thinkmap
Posted on January 27, 2014
Thinkmaps are visual representation (literally an entire whiteboard wall full) of market and user research to help tell a narrative to a client. They can also be considered social objects, and they culminate in insights and unconventional wisdom. Thinkmaps were invented by Nametag Scott, and later adopted by POKE New York (now Makeable) as an […]
FEA of Eyewear
Posted on January 6, 2014
An Analysis of Reading Glasses in Abaqus, an Finite Element Analysis Software
Gravel
Posted on December 8, 2013
This is a presentation for my entrepreneurship class at Brown called ENGN1010 with Danny Warshay. My team consists of Oliver Diamond, Wills Curley, Hanna Wren, Sam Jau, and John Bai. Gravel is a social, collaborative workflow tool for planning trips. Here is the final presentation: Here is the business plan:
My Love for Evernote
Posted on October 30, 2013
In this era of technology, I am constantly absorbing content. Evernote’s mission is to help its users remember everything through an ambitious pursuit of productivity and learning. If you asked me if this was possible before I began using their product, I would have said no. That’s no longer the case. I once learned that there […]
The Audi Project
Posted on March 30, 2013 Leave a Comment
I got this prompt for a job application and I wanted to share my pitch! Here is the accompanying video of my original thought process before I created the keynote: <p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/59065242″>PUSHMEplease</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/user16297123″>Kelly G. Hering</a> on <a href=”https://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>
Empathy Box for Autism
Posted on March 5, 2013 Leave a Comment
New Updates: Empathy Box is implementing our project into the Girl Scouts of RI Program Guide! We also just completed an incredible pilot program with Cristina Faulkner’s Design Thinking classroom. You can read more about how it went here! UPDATE FALL 2013: We started a project with Loyola Academy in the Los Angeles area around the […]
DFA Autism Awareness
Posted on January 23, 2013 Leave a Comment
Design for America is an organization started by college students at Northwestern to bring design thinking to its campus and local communities. It has now grown from one to about fourteen different chapters at different universities across the country. I am now a proud member of the chapter in its second year at Brown & […]
Hylight: Stethoscope Sterilization Pod
Posted on January 22, 2013 Leave a Comment
Hylight: The Pocket Stethoscope Sterilizer was a project that came out of the Industrial Design class called Designing Healthier Hospitals taught by Chris Bull of Brown and Michael Lye of RISD. This project was chosen from 20 different concepts to be prototyped by a group of four students: Marvin Li ’13 (Brown), Alex Nam ’14 […]
MicroArchitecture
Posted on January 21, 2013 Leave a Comment
This project was on micro-architecture design, defined as something bigger than a chair and smaller than a little house. My group, consisting of a total of 4 people, decided Brown students needed a place to study on days with great weather, which can be few and far between. We wanted to create an outdoor study […]
Drafting Table
Posted on January 20, 2013 Leave a Comment
The prompt for one of the projects in my Design Studio class here at Brown was “Displaying the Displayed.” As an exercise, we had to bring in a meaningful object from home. I brought one of my drawings that resonated with me because not only was I proud of my work but I made it […]
CAD: Hole Puncher Project
Posted on January 10, 2013 Leave a Comment
This project for my CAD class (ENGN1740) was to choose an everyday object and disassemble it, allowing to understand the different design and manufacturing decisions that went into making such object. I chose a hole puncher, and found the most challenging portions the curves of the arms of the hole punch. However, I did learn […]
Brown CubeSat Project
Posted on January 10, 2013 Leave a Comment
The Brown CubeSat Team is building a satellite named EQUiSat, a 1-U CubeSat with an educational outreach mission to increase the interest and awareness of space applications. BREAKING NEWS: EQUiSat, the CubeSat that my team and I at Brown have been working on for two years now – has just been accepted by NASA into their CubeSat […]
Design Studio: Cardboard Box Exercise
Posted on January 10, 2013 Leave a Comment
One of the first exercises we did in my design studio class was a “box” exercise, where we were given a piece of paper with about 9 cubes on it. We were asked to use the cubes for something and were given 10 min to do it. The results were definitely interesting. The class made […]
Bottle Optimization Design Project
Posted on January 7, 2013 Leave a Comment
For my ENGN0030: Intro to Engineering (aka Statics) course freshman year, our first design project was to optimize a bottle. My group made up of myself, Kyle McNamara, and Chris Culin, chose to optimize a bottle with a very specific function – the baby bottle. One of the most important aspects of our design is […]
Solar Car Design Project
Posted on January 7, 2013 Leave a Comment
This was a project done in my ENGN0040: Dynamics and Vibrations class sophomore year with a partner, Chris Culin. Watch our car climb an incline below!
Homopolar Motor Design Challenge
Posted on January 7, 2013 Leave a Comment
This project was done from ENGN0510: Electricity and Magnetism with two of my classmates, Matt Breuer and Chris Culin. Mission Statement: The objective of this design project was to design a homopolar motor with provided simple materials while maximizing angular velocity. Design Theory & Constraints: The team sought out to design a motor from their […]
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