Transforming the world we live in

The MID program is built around the dialogues our students have with each other. With our faculty. With our guest speakers. And with our industry partners. By connecting these stakeholders through multi-year collaborations, we’re able to promote social and business innovation within a local context. This real-world interaction, unique to our program, encourages students to go beyond linear approaches to problem-solving. Teaching them to engage the design process in fresh ways in order to make a difference in the world.

Woody

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, B.S. Mathematics, M.S. Mechanical Engineering

confusion could lead us to a new realism

Mike Smith

B.S. Mechanical Engineering

Alaina Pineda

B.A. Art History

Sara Hall

B. Architecture

"People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things."-R. Buckminster Fuller

Matthew Van Der Tuyn

BFA, Graphic Design

be the roots not the tree...

Dominic Prestifilippo

BS. Aerospace Engineering

For me, design is perpetual and I see all of my experiences through it.

Giacomo Ciminello

B.F.A. Graphic Design

I believe no matter how random something may appear, there's still a plan. -Col. Hannibal Smith

Holly Betz

BLA - Landscape Architecture

My passion for design stems from the need to improve the world through informed decision-making and designing.

Josh Chadwick

B.F.A. Industrial Design, A.A. Graphic Design

“The problem with designing something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of a complete fool." -Douglas Adams

Donovan Preddy

B.F.A - Metals/Jewelry/CAD-CAM

I decided to reinvent myself by leaving my ornamentally-based past for a more functionally-based future in Industrial Design.

Sherika Wynter

B.S. Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

"For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more." - Luke 12:48

Danny Chang

B.S. Psychology

I am capable of looking at a problem in a large scope and dissecting it in detail.

Michael Barakat

B.F.A. 2005 - Film and Animation

If something is easy then you're probably missing the point.

Kristin Freese

B.A. Interior Design

Design now exists less to shape objects than to produce solutions.

Matt Miller

B.A. Visual Communication

Keynote is my new fav.

Benjamin Farahmand

BS Aerospace Engineering; BA Philosophy

I believe the ultimate goal of design is to empathize.

Natasha Sapershteyn

B.F.A. Painting

Nicolas Coia

B.S. Marketing & Entrepreneurship

The role of the designer is changing, we need to grab hold of the future and guide it in a greener, more efficient and user-friendly fashion.

Wan Ting Chang

B.S. Computer Science & Engineering

"God is in the details." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Georgia Guthrie

B.A. History of Art

My decision to pursue Industrial Design came with the realization that I have been a maker, builder and doer my whole life.

Jacob Wells

B.F.A. Printmaking

"I'm Jake Wells . . ."

Andy Grossman

B.A. Modern Philosophy

I aim to improve the quality of our everyday lives with analytical problem solving and sensitivity to aesthetics.