Eric Reynolds Brubaker

I am an engineer, designer, and researcher currently leading the Discovery phase of the Convergent Aeronautics Solutions project at NASA. 

I started my career at Battelle, IDDS, and MIT D-Lab working collaboratively to develop hardware, teach design, and grow social impact organizations in the U.S., India, and Zambia. Then I returned to school and completed a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Design) at Stanford University. There I was part of the Center for Work, Technology & Organization, Center for Design Research, and Center for African Studies with funding from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. 

My research aims to help people co-design across group boundaries, building from theories in engineering design, organization studies, learning sciences, complex systems, critical studies and other transdisciplinary scholarship. This typically involves ethnography and mixed methods in partnership with communities and organizations. 

My family and I are based in Chapel Hill, NC, USA.