Victor
Ermoli
Dean, School of Design
- B.A., industrial design, Instituto de Diseno de Caracas, Venezuela, 1993
- B.A., industrial and product design, Ohio State University, 1995
- M.E.D., industrial design, University of Calgary, Canada, 1997
First year at SCAD:
1998
Credentials/past experience:
Chair of industrial design department, SCAD, 1998-2005; freelance industrial design consultant; product development research assistant, University of Calgary; director of digital animation and video editing, 30 Cuadros C.A., Venezuela
Most significant accomplishment(s):
Named one of the 25 "Most Admired Educators in America" by DesignIntelligence in 2011
Awards, recognition, honors:
Featured in Business Report's "40 under 40" and I.D. magazine's "40 Best Designers Under 30"
Organizations:
IDSA
Publications and/or presentations:
- Presented at the Event Design Conference, New York City, May 2007
- Presented fully functional street legal prototype of a concept car, EXO Spyder, at several nationally recognized car shows, 1999
- Juror for the "International Competition for Student Artists," March 1999
- Exhibited two designs - battery charger and multi-communicational remote control - at University of Calgary environmental design department's industrial design gallery show, October 1996
- Published paper about societal consequences of the Internet in University of Calgary environmental design department's product and technology assessment annual report, June 1996
- Presented design of communicational device for high-risk jobs at industrial design exhibition, Columbus, Ohio, June 1996
Inspiration for teaching:
"SCAD's unique student-centered environment fosters innovation, intellectual wonder and critical problem-solving, motivating me to always challenge myself to do my best."
Courses:
- IDUS 320 Design for Emergent Markets
- IDUS 321 Industrial Design in the Marketplace
- IDUS 387 Marketing and Industrial Design
- IDUS 421 Commercial Practices for Industrial Design
- IDUS 431 Industrial Design Senior Studio
- IDUS 713 Industrial Design Studio I
- IDUS 718 Industrial Design Studio II
- IDUS 733 Entrepreneurship for Designers
- SDES 490 Collaborative Experiences
Robert
Fee
Program coordinator, design management
B.F.A., industrial design, Kansas City Art Institute, 1966
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First year at SCAD:
1998
Credentials/past experience:
Manager, Texas Instruments Corporate Design Center, Dallas, Texas; Manager, industrial design, Richard Ten Eyck Associates, Wichita, Kansas; Senior industrial designer, Reinecke Associates, Chicago, Illinois; Industrial designer, Design Consultants Inc., Chicago, Illinois; Computer Graphics Data Transcription, The Boeing Co., Seattle, Washington
Most significant accomplishment(s):
Participated in developing the first computer rendition of the human figure in 1966
Awards, recognition, honors:
Named among "Most Admired Educators" by DesignIntelligence, 2007, 2010
Organizations:
Industrial Designers Society of America, Design Management Institute
Publications and/or presentations:
Presented design practices at conferences including the American Evaluators Association, Academy of Management, Design Management Institute and Industrial Designers Society of America, as well as lecturing and conducting charrettes at universities from California to Northern Ireland
Inspiration for teaching:
"Teaching is the outward manifestation of your implicit understanding of the world. It is discourse at its purest. Without being able to teach, you do not really know what it is that you do. Teaching highly motivated students of design from around the planet is a collaboration with the future: with the nicest generation. Our young leaders are a grateful lot; at once optimistic and a bit anxious, and always defining a new way to think about old ideas. If the punch line of a joke is the sudden revelation of an unexpected conclusion that makes perfect sense, then the tangible design idea is the embodiment of pragmatic wit."
Courses:
- SDES 704 Applied Theory in Design
- DMGT 706 Idea Visualization
- DMGT 720 Design Innovation Development and Marketing Strategies
- DMGT 732 Facilitating Creative Thinking
- DMGT 748 Design Management M.A. Final Project
- DMGT 783 Design Futures: Trends, Foresight and Intuition
- DMGT 790 Design Management M.F.A. Thesis
- IDUS 711 Methods of Contextual Research
