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Dr. Seth Orsborn
Director

Dr. Seth Orsborn is an interdisciplinary designer and loves the challenge of wrestling with an ambiguous world to identify unique opportunities which can be solved by creating products that are beautiful, functional, and desirable. Seth is also the director of and teaches courses in Product Design and Innovation at SMU. In addition to problem solving with the students, staff, and faculty of SMU, you can find him mentoring start-ups and advising innovation teams. If he’s not there, he’s probably chasing chickens around his property or trying to keep up with the chores on his pecan orchard.


JT Ringer
Lab Manager

JT is a human-centered designer with a background in theater design and technology. Before joining the DIG, he spent 16 years making props for theater, opera, and dance productions. In addition to managing the DIG, JT teaches Form and Composition in the Master of Arts in Design and Innovation program at SMU. JT enjoys woodworking, road trips, and spoiling his two Very Bad Cats™, Penny and Charlie.


Sithindu Sirisooriya
Assistant MANAGER

Sithindu is a senior majoring in computer science with a minor in Chinese. His most notable passion is tinkering. He also has a yet-unexplained affinity for mowing lawns. He will mow any lawn, but there is always a price to pay. He’s like a landscaping witch.

Feel free to ask him anything, but be forewarned he will likely tell you he doesn’t know at first.

It is very likely that he is at the DIG right now, staring into space, trying to remember which certifications are real and which ones are fake.


Kylah bergan
Lab Technician

Kylah is a Sophmore majoring in Marketing and World Languages and Literature. She loves learning more about languages/cultures and feels that through creative expression those attributes can be truly expressed. If anyone wants to learn more about tactile arts or stardew valley she would love to help!


ALYSSA BURNETT
LAB TECHNICIAN

Alyssa is a junior majoring in Creative Computing and Psychology. She enjoys working with the 3D-printers and laser cutter, and is always happy to work with you on any project or problem you may need help with! (just give her 5-7 business days for the bigger projects.)


ADELE CLAYES
LAB TECHNICIAN

Adele is a sophomore who is very passionate about arts, crafts, and everything in between. She is fluent in French and loves psychology. Her favorite part of working at the DIG is helping people to achieve their visions and turn them into realities. For all sewing related questions, feel free to contact her or Jordan!


"[Adele] is such a wonderful person" -Dr. Seth Orsborn


CASE HOOGLAND
Lab Technician

Case is a fifth year student majoring in Mechanical Engineering with a Specification in Biomedical Engineering and minoring in History. He is the Marshal of Theta Tau and Historian of the Classical Studies Club. He specializes in Woodshop and the traditional side of the Metalshop (Blacksmithing). If you see him doing something potentially dangerous, please don’t copy him… he is the embodiment of chaos.


palmer hurd
Lab Technician

Palmer is a sophomore in Environmental Engineering with a minor in Global Development. He enjoys music and scuba diving, but can also be useful if you have any questions. You can find him in the DIG wearing the orange crocs because he forgot to wear closed toed shoes.


Michael Llanes
LAB TEchnician

Michael is a Sophomore Computer Science and Geology student. He likes doing well in his studies, working on random workshops, and helping DIG patrons realize their projects. You can find him in the DIG this semester, where he will most likely be working on a new woodshop project.


Jon Moore
lab technician

Jon is a senior studying civil engineering. His specialties include wood and metal working. He is a proud cat dad and fills his spare time working on fabrication projects at home or at the DIG.


Tami Olujobi
lab technician

Tami is a Junior majoring in Economics and minoring in Graphic Design. She has a passion for the fiber arts such as sewing, knitting, crocheting and machine knitting. Her favorite machines so far are the vinyl cutter and the sewing machines. In her spare time she is usually hanging out with friends, making clothes or planning what clothes to make next.


kristian perez
lab technician

Kristian is a freshman Biomedical Engineering Pre-major. His favorite machines are the vinyl cutter and 3D printers. Outside of the DIG, he is wherever his friends drag him to (he doesn’t ask questions). His dream is to become a prosthetists and make artificial limbs for children.


ANDREA REYES
Lab Technician

Andrea is a senior studying astrophysics, geophysics, and engineering. She loves 3D design and laser cutting, especially water bottles, as well as dancing. She has done research on black holes, exoplanets, and the moon. She likes space and loves questions about it, and her dream job is to go into habitat design for human spaceflight. 


REY WINN
Lab Technician

Rey is a junior year music and physics major that doesn’t like free time. If they’re not on the clock, they’re working on their next large project which will take more time than they care to admit.

“Philander and Discover” - Rey


JORDAN YOUNG
Lab Technician

Jordan is a senior with a major in creative writing and minors in computer engineering and business. Her DIG specialties are sewing, vinyl cutting, and laser cutting. When she isn't holed up in the DIG, she likes to draw, write (obviously), play video games, and cook for the people she loves. A certified chatterbox, she loves to talk with people about their latest interest or lifelong passions.

She continues to have an obsession with birds, especially corvids.


If you want to join our team, fill out this application and email us to let us know.