Engineering professor has designs on origami

Goran Konjevod, computer science and engineering professor, uses the concept of origami to teach the fundamentals of engineering.

“Origami provides excellent examples that span both serious topics and fun exercises for teaching mathematics, computer science and engineering design,” Konjevod says.

He says origami relies on very simple means and materials to construct sometimes fairly complex objects.

“It’s not just birds and flowers,” Konjevod says. “There exist bowls, springs; even a functional bolt and nut have been designed out of paper.”