Cody Candler, Product Designer and Educational Technologist, MS–Creative Industries 2020

Post Graduate Employment: EdBoard Technologies

Undergraduate Degree: Engineering Plus

MS Focus Interest: Product Design and Educational Technology

MS Courses Taken in the Program  

Core classes:

• Creative Industries Professional Seminar: The Business of Creativity
• Creative Technologies
• Design Methods
• Design Studio 

Elective classes:

• User-Experience Design
• Community Based-Design
• K12 Computer Science Education Research
• Venture Capital and Private Equity
• Product Development and Design
• Startup Execution

Creative Industries Design Thesis:  Breadboard vs EdBoard Study

• Problem = Improving the EdBoard product
• Focus = Comparative study on how children learn between breadboards versus EdBoards
• Final Product = Bread board vs EdBoard Study