D-Squad Overview
This video provides a quick introduction to the Design Squad television series (Duration 4:17). A great place to start if you are thinking about using Design Squad in your classroom or at an event.
D-Squad Pro Files
These short videos are profiles of real engineers who showcase diverse and creative career paths in engineering. Download them to your desktop, and use them at events or in educational settings.
JENNIFER CHUA
25-year-old Jennifer Chua is a packaging engineer who works at Method, a company in San Francisco that specializes in nontoxic, biodegradable products. Jennifer makes high-quality products that are both good-looking and good for the environment. (Can also be seen at pbs.org/designsquad.)
Related Episode: Cardboard Furniture
CONNIE YANG
Mechanical and design engineer Connie Yang is as extreme as the high-tech tents she designs for NEMO Equipment.
Related Episode: PVC Kayak
ERIN GATELY
Industrial engineer Erin Gately creates new environmentally friendly products for Hewlett-Packard by ensuring that HP's computer products are made with fewer non-recyclable materials.
Related Episode: Green Machines
GAEL FORCE
Gael Force Team 126 from Clinton, Massachusetts, is one of more than 1,300 teams that compete each year at the annual FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics competition. Teams had just six weeks to design, build, and test a robot that raced around a track to move a 40-inch inflatable ball.
Related Episode: Gravity Bikes
GREG JONES
Greg Jones applies his mechanical engineering skills in a broad range of artistic endeavors including "La Contessa," a replica of a 40-foot Spanish galleon built over a school bus.
Related Episode: Water Dancing
NAPHYSAH DUNCAN
Naphysah Duncan is a biomedical engineer and former rhythmic gymnast. Naphysah and her team design parts for spinal implants, which will enable people with injured or deformed spines to move more freely and naturally. Naphysa is passionate about her career because she is helping people to live healthy lives.
Related Episode: Water Dancing
CHRIS GRAY
What is more fun then riding a roller coaster? Ask mechanical engineer Chris Gray and he'd say building one! At Greater Coaster International, Chris applies his creActivity and engineering know-how to build exhilarating (and safe!) roller coasters.
Related Episode: Backyard Thrill Ride
MATT SISUL AND WILLIAM CAO
Matt Sisul and William Cao are 20-something structural engineers who volunteer for Engineers without Borders to promote urban development in Africa and South America.
Related Episode: Big Bugs
ANTHONY WESTPHAL
Anthony Westphal, a mechatronic engineer at the Marine Systems Engineering Laboratory at Northeastern University, combines both mechanical and electrical engineering while working on robots that mimic biological animals, including a lamprey swimming robot.
Related Episode: Aquatic Robotics
MARK CAYLAO
Mark Caylao, Head Engineer for Airship Management Services in North Carolina, maintains and operates some of the world's largest blimps for everyone from presidential candidates to the military.
Related Episode: Band Cam
CURTIS CRUZ & BECKY O'HARA
25-year-olds Curtis Cruz and Becky O'Hara, engineers for Rawlings Sporting Goods, have a dream job that combines their passion for baseball with their love of math and science.
Related Episode: No Crying in Baseball
LEILA HASAN
Leila Hasan combines creActivity with technology as the lead engineer for the GigaPan, a robotic device that takes high-resolution panoramic imagery for consumer use.
Related Episode: Hockey Net Target
ARIE AND GRIFFEN OUIMET
Arie and Griffen Ouimet, twin teenaged brothers, race go-karts at the SSC East racetrack in Braintree, Massachusetts. Arie prefers to be behind the wheel, while Griffen puts his engineering skills to work in the pits. The brothers are mentored by Dave Davidson, a mechanical engineer who developed the Freedom Wheel, a go-kart steering wheel that works without foot controls.
Related EpisodeS: Off-Road Go-Karts Part 1 and Off-Road Go-Karts Part 2
PETER BETHUNE
Former oil engineer, Pete Bethune, goes green by designing the world's first high-speed powerboat—fueled entirely by biodiesel. Listen in as Pete lays out his plan to circumnavigate the globe in his clean, green machine—EarthRace.
Related Episode: The Need for Speed
AMANDA BLIGH
Hasbro toy engineer Amanda Bligh demonstrates how work can be play when you spend your day designing products like Nerf Hoops and Nerf Blaster.
Related Episode: Rock On!
JENNIFER NAKAYAMA
Jennifer Nakayama of SeaWorld puts to use her skills as an environmental and civil engineer to create a cool new habitat for warm weather Humboldt penguins.
Related Episode: DS Unplugged
AMY KUKULYA
An oceanographic engineer at Woods Hole, Amy helps build and operate torpedo-shaped robots to map terrain under water.
Related Episode: Got Game?
DEBBIE THEOBALD
A mother of three, Debbie Theobald knows all about coming to the rescue. Watch how Debbie and a team of engineers bring to life BEAR, a robot designed to remove people from dangerous settings and situations.
Related Episode: A Collective Colloaration
EVAN THOMAS
Employing the same skills he uses in his work at NASA, Evan Thomas, a volunteer working with Engineers Without Borders, designs water recovery and purification systems for use in the arid country of Rwanda.
Related Episode: A Collective Colloaration
CHRIS FIDLER AND SCOTT KELLER
Burton snowboard gurus, Scott Keller and Chris Fidler, fill us in on how they design bindings that really click and boards that excel on any snowy terrain. It's a process of ups and down, leaps and landings as the Burton boys carve up the slopes.
Related Episode: Just for Kicks
HOWARD PRYOR
Medical science meets tissue engineering as Dr. Howard Pryor develops an implantable device designed to help people suffering from liver disease.
Related Episode: Functional Fashion
PETE GOSSELIN
Talk about a sweet gig: Working with the innovative ice cream recipes of Ben & Jerry's food scientists, mechanical engineer Pete Gosselin creates specialized machinery to produce the perfect balance of Chunky and Monkey.
Related Episode: Batter Up
SARAH GRENIER
Mechanical engineer Sarah Grenier fulfills her need for speed by transforming her beat up VW into a sleek, slick racecar...and races it herself.
Related Episode: Pumped
LT. DARRIN BARBER
Electrical engineer Lt. Darrin Barber plumes the depths of sonar technology in his work on the U.S. Navy's newest—and most high-tech—submarine, the USS Texas.
Related Episode: Bodies Electric