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DIRECTOR - SIEBEL CENTER FOR DESIGN CARLE ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF MEDICINE LEADERSHIP PROFILE SIEBEL CENTER FOR DESIGN | DIRECTOR 2 Founded in 1867 as a land grant institution, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is both celebrating 150 years of transformative experiences and heralding an ambitious vision for the future through learning, discovery and public engagement. More information on our sesquicentennial milestones and festivities is available at: 150.illinois.edu SIEBEL CENTER FOR DESIGN The Siebel Center for Design will channel the diverse and The Siebel Center for Design will catalyze fundamental changes outstanding talents of our students to develop expertise, passion, in the way we educate our students and prepare them for and creativity toward solving problems in our societies – both real world challenges, leveraging resources, spaces, and the every day and the most complex. Students from across talents across the university and connecting students to global all fields of study will explore ideas and master skills through communities and challenges. At Illinois, a land-grant university action—by immersing, designing, making, doing. that boasts far-reaching global impact and one of the largest international student bodies of any public university, design will The Siebel Center for Design will be a University-wide resource, uniquely become a part of every discipline’s thinking. creating innovative undergraduate and graduate classes and programs in multiple colleges. Rather than offer independent At Illinois, we will realize the bold and ambitious promise degrees, the Center will support multidisciplinary approaches of design to serve as a key bridge between disciplines that to design and help disciplines across the university incorporate foster innovation processes that can impact entire societies, these approaches into their own offerings. It will incorporate individuals, and everything in between. The Center will support design thinking and design learning into our teaching, research, students in all fields, whether they are building medical devices, and engagement. consumer electronics, systems with crucial public impact, systems for delivering clean water, or delivering services to restore well-being to victims of violence. It will merge defining THE EXPERIENCE problems, collaborating on ideas, addressing today’s most urgent and pressing issues, and prototyping and testing until the This new $48 million, 60,000 square foot center and the wide- best answer is found. ranging programs it supports will be a unique resource among large, public universities. A hub for student-focused design As a land-grant institution that helped redefine higher education thinking and learning, the Siebel Center for Design will support in the U.S., and where accessibility design and the nation’s innovative approaches to design of products, processes, first supercomputing center were created, Illinois’ mission and experiences. Opening on a pre-eminent public research remains to enhance the lives of citizens across the nation and university campus with leading facilities in the sciences and around the world through our leadership in learning, discovery, arts alike, it will emphasize a commitment to interdisciplinary engagement, and economic development. With the Siebel creativity, collaboration and experimentation. Together with a Center for Design and the campus-wide design initiative, we diverse range of design-related resources and units working will again redefine what it means to be a student, and an across the university, it will expand inclusive learning across active, high-impact member of society, in the 21st century. disciplines, realities, and cultures. SIEBEL CENTER FOR DESIGN | DIRECTOR 3 HIGHLIGHTS Student Immersion Multi- and Transdisciplinary Education From day one, all Illinois students, undergraduates and The Siebel Center for Design is not the final destination for graduates will have access to the Siebel Center for Design. creators, nor is it necessarily the starting point. The Center’s Here, visions can become reality after ideation, collaboration, role as the central hub of our campus-wide system catalyzes prototyping and testing. The Center is the hub for campus’ new learning opportunities and creative experimentation at the design network. It is where students will learn how to utilize university. When working across disciplines with peers in fields resources throughout campus, from the 3D printers in the that complement each other, problems are most insightfully College of Business and University Libraries to the fabrication explored and addressed. Ideas and solutions are that much spaces in Art + Design. They will not have to guess what is better when a community rich in diversity of perspectives, available to them. Instead, they can dive in, find an active experiences, interests and skills comes together to think about community of engaged learners and be guided through the products and design in new, high-impact ways. process. Economic Driver New products, designs and technologies enhance human experiences of the world and foster more productive, healthier, and more sustainable and enjoyable places for diverse members of societies to live. Partnerships with regional and international companies will be made to realize the potential for social impact, to improve concepts that allow new ideas to materialize, and to enable the freshest tech trends to grow while enabling existing production sectors to be invigorated. Such constructive work leads to job creation and new economic opportunities. The Siebel Center for Design will enrich such movements of the future. SIEBEL CENTER FOR DESIGN | DIRECTOR 4 THE OPPORTUNITY The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is seeking a The Siebel Center for Design will succeed through the founding director for the Siebel Center for Design. development, implementation, and support of a broad spectrum of educational and programmatic activities. Important activities Reporting to the provost and the dean of the College of include: Engineering, the director will be the intellectual and creative leader of the Siebel Center for Design and the executive • Synthesizing an array of current formal and informal offerings responsible for its administration and success. The director and resources in design-related learning into a sustainable is responsible for fostering, guiding, and supporting the and accessible network for student use. development and delivery of curricula and programmatic • Incubating new courses and new experiential learning activities in the Center. The director also will build relationships activities to build bridges across academic and research and work closely with the campus community and with key units, enriching the students’ educational experiences and stakeholders locally and around the country. The director is research opportunities, and inspiring and advancing new responsible for staff, resources, facilities, budgets, fundraising, ideas in residential higher education. and marketing. • Supporting student teams on a variety of projects, with The director will guide the stewardship, evolution, and emphasis on learning, ideation, innovation and prototyping improvement of the Siebel Center for Design to serve the needs of products and solutions with societal impact. Teams and the aspirations of the campus community. The director also will benefit from access to specialists from throughout the will explore and pioneer new models and new approaches for university with expertise in societal challenges, design education across the disciplines through the fusion of learning, thinking, technology, ethical and legal issues, business, problem solving, collaboration, ideation, creation, innovation, marketing, and entrepreneurship. The director of the Siebel and entrepreneurship. Center for Design will ensure that these resources and expertise are engaged and broadly accessible. • Offering training modules, short courses and certifications in an array of skills, in collaboration with colleagues across campus. • Fostering and supporting immersive experiences to highlight global challenges and to promote worldwide collaborations. • Convening the world’s brightest speakers, educators, artists and experts to offer skill-, problem-, and theme-focused workshops, symposia and events. • Developing on-demand learning opportunities, including lectures and talks that are available digitally. • Establishing community-focused programs around local challenges, engaging community leaders and stakeholders. SIEBEL CENTER FOR DESIGN | DIRECTOR 5 THE GUIDING FORCE A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Bachelor of Arts in History, an MBA, and a Master of Science in Computer Science), Mr. Thomas Siebel is the chairman and CEO of C3 IoT, an enterprise PaaS and SaaS software company that enables companies to design, develop, deploy, provision, and operate large-scale IoT applications. C3 IoT applies the power of big data, advanced analytics, social networking, machine learning, and cloud computing to enable the rapid development of IoT SaaS systems. Mr. Siebel was the founder, chairman, and CEO of Siebel Systems, one of the world’s leading software companies, that merged with Oracle Corporation in January 2006. Founded in 1993, Siebel Systems rapidly became a leader in application software with more than 8,000 employees in 32 countries, over 4,500 corporate customers, and annual revenue in excess of $2 billion. Mr. Siebel serves on the College of Engineering