{"id":23191,"date":"2019-05-09T15:03:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T15:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/2019\/05\/09\/keep-the-shiny-side-up\/"},"modified":"2023-03-04T16:30:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T21:30:32","slug":"keep-the-shiny-side-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/2019\/05\/09\/keep-the-shiny-side-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep the Shiny Side Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SHARON<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not often that a preschooler knows\u2014truly knows\u2014where they will go to college. Unless that preschooler is Sharon Joines<\/a>. Joines grew up in close proximity to NC State and vividly remembers riding her bike around campus as a child and, as a high school student, attending a computer engineering summer camp. Around the age of three, Joines found an NC State class ring in her yard, and explains, \u201cWe tried to find the owner; however, there were no markings. I told my mom I was going to keep it because I was going to go to NC State.\u201d<\/p>\n

True to her word, Joines is a three-time NC State University alumna who received her Bachelor\u2019s, Master\u2019s, and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering. She is married to another three-time alumnus, Jeff Joines, Ph.D., who is also Professor and Department Head of Textile Engineering Chemistry and Sciences at NC State College of Textiles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Joines chose industrial engineering because her father and sister were both engineers, and it seemed like a natural fit for her. More importantly, the ergonomics focus was the catalyst. \u201cI wanted to find a way to help people when they are working. Our work life takes up so much of our waking hours that I wanted to focus on this. Many of my friends wanted to become doctors, and my thought was that if I could prevent problems and a worker didn\u2019t have to go to the doctor, then I would be contributing,\u201d Joines says.<\/p>\n

Over her career, Joines has focused on improving lives, whether through processes, products, or environments. In her new role as Associate Dean of the College of Design<\/a>, Joines hopes to continue this work. \u201cSometimes the design challenge is about the physical and sometimes it\u2019s about processes. For me taking on this job, it is about processes. It is about digging into the data\u2014and there is a lot of data out there\u2014at NC State.\u201d Joines is quick to add, \u201cIt\u2019s not always about collecting more, but harvesting what is already there and then synthesizing it and presenting it to people and saying, \u2018well, here is a different perspective on what is going on,\u2019 and letting them be informed by this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joines has high expectations for the College and for herself. She says, \u201cI hope to improve our design community, to make people\u2019s lives easier, to help our faculty educate our students, to better utilize resources for our students, and for our students to succeed.\u201d It\u2019s an ambitious goal, but Joines has a history of pushing herself and making things happen.<\/p>\n

Growing up, Joines cultivated her adventurous spirit and appreciation for a challenge. She was involved in autocross, which is, \u201ctimed racing where other people are not on the course with you. You are competing against yourself,\u201d she offers. This activity was inspired by her father whose advice and beliefs are an integral part of who she is today. \u201cHe had the attitude that you can\u2019t find your boundaries\u2014the edge of your capabilities\u2014without testing them occasionally. And he felt that way, even about racing. He was always saying, just keep the shiny side up, Sharon.\u201d She continues, \u201cand, that is sort of like everything in my life; push it and occasionally go past where you think you can, but just keep the shiny side up.\u201d<\/p>\n

This post was originally published<\/a> in College of Design Blog.<\/em><\/p>","protected":false,"raw":"\"SHARON<\/a>\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s not often that a preschooler knows\u2014truly knows\u2014where they will go to college. Unless that preschooler is Sharon Joines<\/a>. Joines grew up in close proximity to NC State and vividly remembers riding her bike around campus as a child and, as a high school student, attending a computer engineering summer camp. Around the age of three, Joines found an NC State class ring in her yard, and explains, \u201cWe tried to find the owner; however, there were no markings. I told my mom I was going to keep it because I was going to go to NC State.\u201d\r\n\r\nTrue to her word, Joines is a three-time NC State University alumna who received her Bachelor\u2019s, Master\u2019s, and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering. She is married to another three-time alumnus, Jeff Joines, Ph.D., who is also Professor and Department Head of Textile Engineering Chemistry and Sciences at NC State College of Textiles<\/a>.\r\n\r\nJoines chose industrial engineering because her father and sister were both engineers, and it seemed like a natural fit for her. More importantly, the ergonomics focus was the catalyst. \u201cI wanted to find a way to help people when they are working. Our work life takes up so much of our waking hours that I wanted to focus on this. Many of my friends wanted to become doctors, and my thought was that if I could prevent problems and a worker didn\u2019t have to go to the doctor, then I would be contributing,\u201d Joines says.\r\n\r\nOver her career, Joines has focused on improving lives, whether through processes, products, or environments. In her new role as Associate Dean of the College of Design<\/a>, Joines hopes to continue this work. \u201cSometimes the design challenge is about the physical and sometimes it\u2019s about processes. For me taking on this job, it is about processes. It is about digging into the data\u2014and there is a lot of data out there\u2014at NC State.\u201d Joines is quick to add, \u201cIt\u2019s not always about collecting more, but harvesting what is already there and then synthesizing it and presenting it to people and saying, \u2018well, here is a different perspective on what is going on,\u2019 and letting them be informed by this.\u201d\r\n\r\nJoines has high expectations for the College and for herself. She says, \u201cI hope to improve our design community, to make people\u2019s lives easier, to help our faculty educate our students, to better utilize resources for our students, and for our students to succeed.\u201d It\u2019s an ambitious goal, but Joines has a history of pushing herself and making things happen.\r\n\r\nGrowing up, Joines cultivated her adventurous spirit and appreciation for a challenge. She was involved in autocross, which is, \u201ctimed racing where other people are not on the course with you. You are competing against yourself,\u201d she offers. This activity was inspired by her father whose advice and beliefs are an integral part of who she is today. \u201cHe had the attitude that you can\u2019t find your boundaries\u2014the edge of your capabilities\u2014without testing them occasionally. And he felt that way, even about racing. He was always saying, just keep the shiny side up, Sharon.\u201d She continues, \u201cand, that is sort of like everything in my life; push it and occasionally go past where you think you can, but just keep the shiny side up.\u201d"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Associate Dean of the College of Design Sharon Joines, PhD, has always strived to improve the lives of others, and she brings that vision to her leadership role at the NC State College of Design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":23192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"ncstate_wire","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23191"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23809,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23191\/revisions\/23809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/industrial-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}