Watch, learn and connect: https://stanfordconnects.stanford.edu/ What shapes the education of a Stanford undergraduate? In this talk, graduate student Derek Ouyang shares his experience as the project manager for the Stanford Solar Decathlon in 2013. Students across disciplines built something amazing, and he's now focused on creating similar experiences in a new project-based course. Derek Ouyang, ’13, MS ’15, was the project manager of Stanford Solar Decathlon in 2013 and is currently a graduate student in structural engineering & geomechanics. He graduated from Stanford University in 2013 with dual bachelor’s degrees in civil engineering and architectural design, and will return in the fall for a master’s in structural engineering. He was project manager of Stanford’s first-ever entry to the U.S. DOE’s 2013 Solar Decathlon and has been featured as an up-and-coming architect in the Los Angeles Times, in Home Energy magazine’s “30 under 30” and at TEDxStanford. He is now keeping himself busy as co-founder of Cloud Architecture, a young architectural practice working on projects all around the world. This Stanford+Connects micro lecture was filmed on location in New York, New York. Stanford+Connects is a program of the Stanford Alumni Association.

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1. So proud of you Derek Ouyang!!
2. I have just one message to add to this. At 4:12 on the lower left is my friend Milos Todorovic from Slovenia who I met in 2012 at Stanford. We reconnected in March of this year on my travels and we had great conversations about an incredible vision of our futures working together, revolutionizing a backwards building industry we both believed was full of opportunity. In June he died in a diving accident off the coast of Croatia. Do not wait another day to do something important with somebody you care about, because you never know when plans will outlive you. If anybody has seen me wearing that "CAPTAIN" shirt, it was a gift from him and some other great friends on my birthday. In that photo he was wearing a similar shirt under his jacket that said "HUNTER," and when I think back I always remember us under those two titles, two project-based learners full of confidence and ambition.
   
   I dedicate this to Milos and his memory and inspiration.