David Roedl

I recently returned home from the Imagine Cup World Finals in Paris. I’m proud to say that along with my teammate Will Odom, our team IU EcoVis won first place in the Interface Design category. It was an intense and rewarding experience on several levels: a challenging exercise in design practice, a rapid tour of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, and a great chance to represent Indiana University on a global stage. Below is a brief summary of what happened. Continue reading ‘Imagine Cup finals recap’

This is the first post in a series documenting my trip to Paris to compete in the Microsoft Imagine Cup Interface Design Competition. Unfortunately, our journey got off to a slow start yesterday. Storms over the midwest kept our flight out of Indy delayed over 5 hours. When we finally arrived in Detroit around 1am, we had missed our flight to Paris and were left to camp out under the sweet shade of a plastic tree: Continue reading ‘Imagine Cup Day 1′

One of the biggest pleasures of working on the IU Energy Challenge has been getting tapped into the broader initiative to promote environmental sustainability on the IUB campus. This summer, I am honored to continue this effort by participating in the second summer internship program sponsored by the Sustainability Task force. I will be joining 19 energetic students from diverse backgrounds, who will each be working on projects to bring sustainable initiatives into various aspects of campus operations and academics. My particular project will be a continuation of my capstone work; I will be looking at ways to leverage utility data to raise awareness about resource consumption on campus.

In addition to the project work, all the interns will be meeting in a weekly seminar, where we have open-ended discussions, guest speakers, and occasional trips to green networking events in the state. Its basically a high-energy think tank for campus sustainability. We will be blogging about our discussion here. All in all, it promises to be a very engaging and productive summer.