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Susan Watkins joined the Cornell faculty in 1967. She taught flat pattern design and clothing construction in her early years at Cornell, but as the College moved from educating students to manage a family into preparing them for professions in the apparel industry, she began to introduce projects and develop courses in the more functional aspects of clothing. In 1984, she wrote the textbook, Clothing: the Portable Environment, the first textbook written to establish functional

Professor Paul Eshelman was educated in the field of Industrial Design at Kent State University, B.S.,1970, and the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, M.F.A., 1972. After a period of professional design experience as Senior Designer for Amtrak and Designer and Research Associate for Herman Miller Research Corporation, he joined the faculty in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis at Cornell University in 1978. At Cornell his teaching of interior design and furniture design and his

Academic Expertise
My area of expertise is organizational ecology; that is, I study the way in which the planning, design, and management of  complex facilities such as hospitals and large corporations and R&D units affect how individuals, teams, and organizations function.

Current Professional Activities
Professor Becker is a founding editor of the Journal of Corporate Real Estate and the Journal of Facilities Management, and is on the Advisory Board of the Health Environments Research and Design Journal and

Susan P. Ashdown, Emerita Professor, joined the College of Human Ecology faculty in 1991 on completion of her Ph.D research at the University of Minnesota on the topic of perception of apparel fit. Previous to this she completed her MA degree in functional apparel design at Cornell.  She taught at Cornell from 1980 to1988 in the College of Arts and Sciences and from 1991 to 2018 in the College of Human Ecology. The questions that informed her research and

The exhibit displays student work from DEA/PSYCH/COG SCI 1500: Introduction to Environmental Psychology for an Ergonomic Analysis exercise. This exercise asks students to conduct an ergonomic analysis of their surroundings, identify a problem and propose a solution to the observed problem.

Problem: Students identify an ergonomic problem and analyze what the likely causes of this poor interface are, based on human factors concepts learned in class. For their analysis, students also discuss a salient social