JH+-+More+Ideas+(Outlines)

1) Accidental vs Medical loss of limbs and their effects in young adults (16-25)? Prosthesis and ethnography of people living without certain limbs – issues, solutions, stigmas, and other possible benefits. How is life affected? Were they always without said part or did they lose it later? Working with doctors, patients, craftsmen and others to get a full idea of the day in the life of. How does it affect their jobs, dreams and aspirations before and after (if applicable). Generating realistic solutions to an issue that most amputees face. Is it easier to lose a leg or an arm? Why? Recovery, meeting others who deal with same issues. i. Patients – overall ethnographic view, talking about their experiences before and after. Help, hurt? ii. Families of Patients – how did they deal with the loss, dealing with the relative, and any way they have viewed them differently if at all. iii. Surgeons / Physicians – breaking the news, the decisions behind finally deciding a limb must be removed from a patient. Relearning to function without (Physical Therapy?) iv. Psychologists – dealing with the loss – is there a mourning process? v. Craftsmen – the craft behind prosthesis. Also the new rise of “craft” and artistic showings, as well as “fashion” pieces now being integrating into prosthetics/ vi. “Industry” as a whole – industry behind amputees. Is there a push to fuel more industry towards this group of people, by either creating “more” (it’s too hard to save) or targeting more resources to make these people’s lives easier? 2) LGBT in STEM – as well as women. Does gender influence draw and attraction to involvement and staying in the STEM field? Looking at the disparities faced by gender and sexual minorities in the STEM field. What challenges do they face? Gender-neering in a sense. What issues do they face? What’s the advantages? Male dominated fields – do feminine people feel the need to masculinize to fit in and/or advance in their field? Are gender stereotypes enforced? Do LGBTQ women make a disproportionately high amount of engineers / scientists as compared to their cisgender / hetero peers? Why or why not? Pressures to pursue more masculine / feminine viewed fields? How is it different in school vs. in industry? Do people “care”? i. Non-GSM ii. GSM i. Empowerment exchange ii. Out vs. not out employees i. Unique issues in visibility and invisibility in comments and culture ii. Perks / privileges i. “shoving it in someone’s face” ii. Fine line between being themselves and being “work-place appropriate”
 * 1) a. Stakeholders
 * 1) 1. **__Accidental__** – losing because of accident, war, sudden decisions? Losing because making a bad decision or a work-related incident?
 * 2) 2. **__Medical__** – mental preparation? Things “out of control”? valuing health over “whole-ness” in a classical sense
 * 3) 3. Differences between the two?
 * 4) 4. Health and fitness after the fact?
 * 1) b. Medical and aesthetics – the intersectionality of the two
 * 1) a. Stakeholders
 * 1) 1. Employers
 * 2) a. Non-discrimination policies and their views.
 * 3) b. Hiring processes – is it taken into account
 * 4) c. “quotas” of minorities
 * 5) d. Issues faced
 * 6) 2. Employees
 * 7) a. How do they view their GSM peers?
 * 8) b. Feelings about quotas and issues it may create
 * 9) 3. Families
 * 10) 4. Industry as a whole
 * 1) 1. Employers
 * 2) a. Looking to hire specific types of people
 * 1) 2. Employees
 * 2) a. “Passing” or stealth individuals
 * 1) b. Openly or not-stealth individuals
 * 1) 3. Families
 * 2) a. Effects on the family dynamic, if any?
 * 3) 4. Industry as a whole
 * 4) a. Looking to hire? Or not?
 * 5) b. Who controls industry? (Straight white cisgender males or someone else entirely?)

3) Manufacturing design and morality - dealing with issues in design and how engineers and other professionals must weigh quality vs quantity vs sustainability of a layout in a facility that manufactures things.

What influence does morality have on the manufacturing design process?

Does manufacturing directly combat the idea of sustainability?

- “Saving the earth” vs. “supplying the masses”

- Capitalism vs. the Earth

- Capitalism in non-first would countries – Manufacturing based mostly in non-first world countries because of cost i. How does manufacturing HELP sustainability efforts ii. How does manufacturing HURT sustainability efforts i. The math behind facility design and ‘weighing’ work stations i. Conflicting views on what helps and hurts environment
 * 1) a. Sustainability problems and weighting those
 * 1) 1. Depending on what’s being made
 * 2) 2. Mass producing – can it be helpful?
 * 3) 3. Sourcing – can local sourcing help? What’s the threshold between being sustainable and not sustainable? Is it renewable?
 * 1) 1. Factories and use of power metrics
 * 2) 2. Sourcing and where it comes from – why does this matter?
 * 3) b. Costs of all the options – what’s the most important part
 * 1) 1. SLP REL Based Layout Planning
 * 2) 2. QAP Based Block Layout Planning
 * 3) 3. Location modeling
 * 4) 4. Euclidean Single Facility Location Planning
 * 5) c. Views on morality – advancement of people vs. “saving the environment”