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 think number one to insist that the project needs to be socially responsible and to focus on needs not wants, to address people at the lowest economic levels. If you do that, everyone can use it, okay. If you make something that's affordable by someone making a dollar or two dollars a day, then ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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