Jill Schmid

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Dean’s List industrial design student at Rochester Institute of Technology with professional experience in design, manufacturing, and teaching.

  I am an Industrial Design major with a minor in Manufacturing Systems at Rochester Institute of Technology. With knowledge and work experience in both design and manufacturing, I have a broad understanding of product development. Industrial design areas I have particular interest in include musical instruments, children’s toys, and architectural features.

  At 16, I started an internship at Nova Labs, a makerspace in the DC metropolitan area. In this internship, I was given the opportunity to learn about digital fabrication, prototyping techniques, woodworking, and metalworking as I helped maintain and improve the makerspace. I was later hired by the makerspace as an instructor for their Makerschool summer program, which I taught for two summers. While in college, I work at the Fab Lab, where I manage, troubleshoot, and run digital fabrication requests for various processes, including 3D printing, vinyl, waterjet, and laser cutting, and CNC routing.