Bio
Micah Lande, PhD is an Assistant Professor and E.R. Stensaas Chair for Engineering Education in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. Dr. Lande directs the Holistic Engineering Lab & Observatory. He teaches human-centered engineering design, design thinking, and design innovation courses. Dr. Lande researches how technical and non-technical people learn and apply design thinking and making processes to their work. He is interested in the intersection of designerly epistemic identities and vocational pathways. Dr. Lande received his B.S. in Engineering (Product Design), M.A. in Education (Learning, Design and Technology) and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Design Education) from Stanford University.
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Dr. Lande is the PI on the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded project “Learning Trajectories of Makers and Engineers”. He was PI for the NSF-funded research project “Should Makers Be the Engineers of the Future?” He also served as a co-PI on the NSF-funded projects: “Might Young Makers Be the Engineers of the Future?,” “I-Corps for Learning: Leveraging Maker Pathways to Scale Steam + Making Outreach Programs,” “Instigating a Revolution of Additive Innovation: An Educational Ecosystem of Making and Risk Taking”, and “Increasing Learning and Efficacy about Emerging Technologies through Transmedia Engagement by the Public in Science-in-Society Activities.”
Dr. Lande founded the first Maker Corps site in Arizona, a program of the Maker Education Initiative. He regularly leads corporate training and engineering outreach programs for design thinking, and making + tinkering.
Professor Lande is the is a past recipient of the Apprentice Faculty Grant from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Education Research and Methods (ERM) division. He currently serves as the Vice-Chair for Publications in the ERM division. He was previously at Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus, and the Center for Design Research and d.school at Stanford University. He has also been involved with the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE), as part of the Academic Pathways Study research team, the Academic Pathways of People Learning Engineering survey research team and an Institute Scholar with the Institute for the Scholarship of Engineering Education (ISEE). Professor Lande is also a past editor-in-chief of Ambidextrous Journal of Design.
Education
PhD Mechanical Engineering (Design Education), Stanford University 2012
MA Education (Learning, Design and Technology), Stanford University 2005
BS Engineering (Product Design), Stanford University 1998