Burt Swersey has been teaching design and problem solving courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for the past for the past 16 years. His courses include Inventor's Studio (a capstone design course), Introduction To Engineering Design and Studio One of Product Design and Innovation, which combines the study of engineering and the humanities.
Prior to his role at RPI, Swersey spent 25 years starting and running 4 medical equipment companies. He holds over 15 US patents.
Burt Swersey is a graduate of Cornell University.
Well I wanted to start my own business. I think probably because my father was in business and you know, you see that children of physicians often end up going to med school. Well my father was an entrepreneur. He opened a number of restaurants that he ran and I guess that really made me comforta...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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