Charlie Michaels is Managing Director of the Center for Socially Engaged Engineering & Design (C-SED), a Lecturer in the Design Science Program, and a co-author of the Socially Engaged Design Process Model. He has an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art & Design from the University of Michigan and a BFA from Bradley University. Charlie leads the implementation of C-SED’s educational experiences at University of Michigan and beyond, including serving as an instructor for C-SED’s “SEED” course through which students engage with stakeholders to explore, define, and ideate solutions to pressing social challenges. Charlie actively works with faculty to build socially engaged content into curricula and manages the C-SED Lab, an interdisciplinary makerspace for building and prototyping.