Ehly, Jeremy G.

Research

keywords

design, design build, praxis, architecture and design, sustainable design, design theory, design thinking, design criticism, architecture, digital fabrication, Digital 3D Modeling, Rhinoceros, 3D Digital Animation, Architectural Rendering

Teaching

courses taught

ENVD 1010 - Studio 1: Introduction to Environmental Products of Design
Primary Instructor - Spring 2021 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
The first of four introductory studios introduces students to concepts and techniques related to the design of products at a human scale. In an immersive project-based studio environment students develop the foundation of design communication and thinking through a series of hands-on projects with physical outcomes.
ENVD 1012 - Technology 2: Visual Communications
Primary Instructor - Spring 2020
Explores the basic visual communication skills necessary for environmental design through image manipulation, vector and raster graphics, and composite renderings. Students will explore concepts in visual hierarchy, composition, and color theory to inform graphics within each environmental design major.
ENVD 1020 - Studio 1: Introduction to Architecture
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2023
The second of four introductory studios introduces students to strategies and techniques of architectural design and communication in a hands-on studio environment. Students design a small-scale architectural project that responds to environmental, contextual and programmatic needs while developing the necessary skills for iterative design processes.
ENVD 1102 - Design and Communication 2
Primary Instructor - Summer 2018
Using both lectures and drawing exercises, this class extends understandings of the representational conventions used by the design professions through its introduction to the possibilities offered by traditional techniques for the advanced practices for design visualization, representation, and communication. Recommended corequisites: ENVD 1104 and ENVD 2003.
ENVD 1110 - Studio 2: Fundamentals of Environmental Products of Design
Primary Instructor - Fall 2024
Building on the foundation introduced in EPoD Studio 1, this studio introduces students to more advanced methodologies and techniques related to the design of products at a human scale while considering the interdisciplinary nature of the other specializations. Using complementary skills in 3D modeling, drawing, diagramming, and through physical making and fabrication, students explore imaginative and innovative design solutions of small-scale products.

ENVD 2352 - Beginning Digital Applications
Primary Instructor - Summer 2020 / Fall 2020 / Summer 2021
Foundation level computing skills for design analytics and representation.

ENVD 3152 - Geographic Info Systems
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Spring 2019
Focuses on construction and use of computer-based information systems to represent and manipulate geographic data. Emphasizes the recording, mapping, and transforming of data for analysis and use by planners.

ENVD 3200 - Advanced ENVD Studio
Primary Instructor - Summer 2018
Design studio dealing with problems at an intermediate level of complexity: emphasis is on the interaction of form, use, and multiple values and technologies in conjunction with issues and techniques drawn from other content area courses of the curriculum. May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours. Recommended prerequisite: ENVD 2130.

ENVD 3300 - Special Topics: Intermediate Design Lab
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019 / Summer 2019
Design lab exploring new and emerging themes in environmental design. May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours.

ENVD 4100 - Advanced Design Lab 1
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018
Design lab exploring new and emerging themes in design. May be repeated up to 18 total credit hours.

ENVD 4352 - Special Topics: Computer Methods
Primary Instructor - Fall 2018 / Fall 2019 / Spring 2021
Topics include animation and environmental simulation, computational methods of technical evaluation and optimization, and computational mapping and analysis. May be repeated for credit by petition.

ENVD 4365 - Special Topics: Technology and Practice
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Spring 2024
Provides an advanced seminar on new technologies and issues of professional practice in the environmental design professions.

ENVD 4420 - Senior Capstone Seminar
Primary Instructor - Spring 2018 / Spring 2019
Advanced seminar focuses on theoretical concerns and practical issues inherent in environmental design and planning. Views concerns and issues in terms of setting, processes, and planning and design outcomes. Provides a critical synthesis of the inherently interdisciplinary nature of planning and design education.

ENVD 4919 - Teaching Assistant
Primary Instructor - Spring 2019 / Spring 2020 / Spring 2021
By special arrangement with instructor. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Recommended prerequisite: 3.00 GPA.

EPOD 3100 - Studio 2: Intermediate Environmental Products of Design
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019
Introduces students to innovative emerging technologies and techniques in digital fabrication and design through a project-based studio environment. Students will be asked to develop design solutions that could be leveraged to benefit humanity through material investigations, cradle-to-cradle methodology, and more advanced methods in design optimization. Recommended corequisite: EPOD 3101. Repeatable for up to 12 total credit hours.

EPOD 3101 - Theory and Ethics in Design
Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Fall 2021 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023 / Fall 2024
This course will introduce students to provocative theories and ideas as they relate to design, sustainability and the current zeitgeist and their relation to the complex ethical considerations in which designers engage. The course will endeavor students to reflect upon critical design theorists views as they work towards enunciating their own values and ideals as they relate to the practice of design. Recommended corequisite: EPOD 3100.

EPOD 4012 - EPOD Capstone Proposal Seminar
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Spring 2021
Exposes students to research and development methodologies related to Environmental Products of Design. Students conduct thorough analysis of a user base, asses environmental impact of their design idea while developing a strategy for branding and fabrication. Finally, a proposal for a design solution of an identified problem is be presented which sets the thematic groundwork for the final Capstone Studio, EPOD 4100.

EPOD 4100 - Studio 3: Capstone in Environmental Products of Design
Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Summer 2021 / Spring 2022 / Spring 2023 / Spring 2024
As a culmination of the students learning and interests within the EPOD major, students use a Design Thinking Process to identify, design, and manifest a physical prototype which addresses a specific need, opportunity or problem.

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Background

education and training

M.A., Illinois Institute of Technology 2007
B.A., Whitman College 2000

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