North American Chapter

The North American Chapter seeks to build community within North America as well as across continents, countries, and disciplines.

About this Chapter

About

The North American Chapter aims too promote, publicise, and disseminate design science research/knowledge to industry/design practitioners, researchers, students, funding agencies, administrators of academia, and the general public and build community within North America as well as across continents, countries, disciplines studying design, industry/government/academia, and for the career advancement of DS member.

Core Aims & Objectives

The North American Chapter seeks to:

To synchronise and synergise North American design activities with those of the greater Design Society;
To promote, publicise, and disseminate design science research/knowledge to industry/design practitioners, researchers, students, funding agencies, administrators of academia, and the general public;
To build community within North America as well as across continents, countries, disciplines studying design, industry/government/academia, and for the career advancement of DS members
To generate, collaborate on, and share resources for design research and education, and facilitate communication and dissemination of those resources in North America; and
To discuss, explore, and strategically address challenges in design science and more globally.

How can members get involved?

Stay up to date with the latest news by checking our website and joining. You can also attend events which include the North America Chapter members, which offer great networking opportunities. Please feel free to contact us via email.

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Our Team

Kathryn Jablokow

Penn State University
United States

Julie Linsey

Mechanical Engineering
United States

Ahmed Jawad Qureshi

University of Alberta
Canada

Filippo Salustri

Toronto Metropolitan University
Canada

Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng. has been teaching, researching, and practising design engineering since 1989. He has been involved with research...

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