From Designing Education Lab

Contact Information

• Center for Design Research
  Stanford University
  424 Panama Mall, Bldg. 560
  Stanford, CA 94305-2206
• ecao@stanford.edu

About

Emily Cao is a junior at Stanford majoring in Mechanical Engineering. Her interests include design, manufacturing, and product development, as well as teaching. In previous work, she has analyzed data for a semiconductor energy conversion firm and has developed art programs for the U.S. Arts Education Center. Her favorite classes at Stanford have been Visual Thinking (ME101), Fluids Engineering (ME70), and Solid Mechanics (ENGR14).

She joined DEL in January 2015. Her role as an undergraduate researcher on Epicenter's Fostering Innovative Generations Study (FIGS) team includes data cleaning, coding, and analysis. She continued working with DEL during the summer of 2015 through Stanford's ME Summer Undergraduate Research Institute. She is interested in researching how to increase the effectiveness of STEM education.

Education

• B.S. Candidate Mechanical Engineering (2017)