DIS Job Placement

 

 

 

Students who pursue the major Design, Innovation, and Society find various job opportunities. Some work in design firms or in large firms that have teams devoted to interdisciplinary design, product development, or product research. Increasing numbers of students are starting their own businesses based in part on support that they have received from competitive grants and prizes.  A significant number of students each year also goes on to graduate school in fields such as management and industrial design.

Students may also pursue a dual major of Design, Innovation, and Society and a second field, such as Mechanical Engineering, Management, Communication/Graphic Design, and Computer Science. Those students are especially attractive in competitive job markets because they combine in-depth knowledge of technical skills with the creative and team-based approach to problem definition and solutions associated with the design studio sequence. The following firms have hired graduates or our program: Accenture, Becton Dickenson, Burton Snowboards, Citigroup, GE, Hasbro, John Deere, L'Oreal, NBCC, Rogers Corporation, and Rose Displays, and Shawmut Design and Construction. We have also placed students on co-op with Apple, Farm Design, Slingshot, Schick Wilkinson Sword, and GE in the past year. The best students often receive multiple offers and face the enviable dilemma of choosing among various opportunities.

 

 

 

Alumni

 

 

Here are a few examples of what our alumni are doing:

 

Eban Bayer and Gavin McIntyre are developing an environmentally friendly insulation made from organic materials as the first product of their new firm Ecovative.

 

Meredith Brooks, a project engineer at Hasbro, works on toy design and development. 

 

Mark Cafaro and Benjamin Smith has established a new company, Weardian, which is developing a chemical-free artisanl gold mining device. The device will eliminate mercury exposure to gold miners and also reduce contamination of rivers.

 

Trent Gillaspie is a Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte, a consulting firm. 

 

Rachel Gitajn is a project designer at Burton Snowboards.

 

Neil Grabowsky and Adam Wishneusky have started Celery, a company that is making a device to send and receive email without a computer. 

 

Amanda Gyllstrom is an industrial designer at the Gem Group. 

 

Melissa Mega is in the agricultural engineering development program at John Deere. 

 

Susan Navojsky is a manufacturing associate in the Explorer Program at L'Oreal USA. 

 

Anne Nixon works as a project engineer at Product Ventures. 

 

Jessica Reichard is an engineer at UTC Fuel Cells. 

 

Mark Roberts established the design firm Conversant Creative.

 

Zach Romatoski is a consulting analyst at Accenture. 

 

Rebecca Stover is a user interface and product designer at Crossfire Consulting. 

 

Vincent Vainus is in the Technology Leadership Program at Citigroup.