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The Design Engineering Collaborative is now accepting applications for new membership. Any member of the UC Berkeley community has the opportunity to join this collaborative, and engage with any projects they find interesting. Several functional leadership groups such as The Glue (structure and cohesion), The People People (outreach and publicity), The Spiders (the web), The Wallet (finance), and The Space work to keep the organization running well. In addition to working on their own projects, all members have the opportunity to join or run any of these groups, without giving any person more power than another. There are no titles, only members.

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1. As a member of DEC, you are not allowed to use your title as a member for use on any applications or outside organizations. Only actions that you take while working with DEC may be put on your resumes. Given that, what is it that you look to get from your experience with us, and what projects do you want to pursue with the collaborative? If you do not have a specific project in mind, what do you think you could bring to the table?

2. Apart from working on personal projects, you will also maintain the strength and structure of the collaborative. Which functional leadership group do you see yourself working with? If none of them sound interesting, what does?

3. People often think of solutions to problems they encounter in the real world (solutions to things that “bug” them). Those interested in design take note of these solutions and problems and create “bug lists” based on these interactions with the world. Please spend a couple days making your own bug list, and jot down a couple ideas below.

4. Greenhouse - a place where the elements are just right to foster the growth of good ideas. Our space currently has whiteboards, chairs and couches, sticky notes, pens, and prototyping materials. There is an annual membership fee of $20, which helps sustain the organization on a small scale, and demonstrates the vested interest of all of our members. Where would you like to see this money go? What would want to add to the room to help your design experience? Why? Don’t hold back; this could be anything from computers to work on, to espresso machines.

5. The Design Engineering Collaborative requires creativity and a novel perspective in approaching challenges and new situations. Imagine you have an infinite amount of Play-Doh in every single color, and an hour to do anything you want. What would you do?