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.
I'm unusual at RPI. I ... my undergraduate training which by the way was my only chair, I don't have a masters or a PhD, I'm one of the few people at RPI who's teaching, who's in that situation, in that category. I studied mechanical engineering at Cornell and I guess, when I graduated, I was inte...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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