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  Victor Ermoli
  Dean of the School of Design
  Savannah
  B.A., Instituto de Diseno de Caracas; B.S., Ohio State University; M.Env. Des., University of Calgary.
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  Victor Ermoli has more than 17 years of industrial design experience and has been featured in Business Report's "40 under 40" and ID magazine's "40 Best Designers Under 30." Ermoli joined SCAD in January 1998 as chair of the industrial design department and was named dean of the School of Design in 2005. Under his leadership, SCAD became the first design college in the United States to plan and build a working, street-legal prototype car, the EXO Spyder, which was unveiled in 1999. He also led the industrial design department to create a sports boat, "The Stinger," winner of an International Composites Design Competition award. In 2001, he received a U.S. patent for a design for a new line of Venetian blinds.
  

  
  
  
  
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  Robert Fee
  Savannah
  B.F.A., Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design.
  
  
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  Peter Fossick
  Savannah
  B.A., Manchester Polytechnic; M.Sc., University of Strathclyde.
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  Peter Fossick is a professional designer who has designed services and products for an array of clients. He joined SCAD in 2007, and has been a full-time professor in product design at Glasgow School of Art and spent six years in Hong Kong developing and leading courses in design. He was a member of the senior management team at Middlesex University and was the course leader for the graduate program in product design, innovation and management. In 1995 he co-founded Factotum Design, a product, service and new media consultancy, and in 2006 he helped create Innovation Valley with a number of business services in North London.
  
  Awards and collections:
  

  • Coopers and Lyebrand Award for Innovation in Education
  • Chartered Society of Designers Hong Kong Award for New Media Design
  • Honorable mention LG Award
  • The Victoria and Albert Museum 20th Century Collection
  • Vitra Design Museum Collection

  
  
  
  
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  Thomas Gattis
  Chair
  Savannah
  B.I.D., Auburn University; M.S., Bemidji State University.
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  Tom Gattis became chair of industrial design after spending seven years as a professor. He launched the marine design minor in 2003 and continues to serve as program coordinator. He was the lead faculty member on two transportation projects in the SCAD industrial design department: the "Stinger," an original-concept, family sport boat, and the "Ohana," a pair of resort kayaks designed for Hobie Cat. His previous experience includes starting the industrial design program at Finlandia University and working as a designer and project manager in the nuclear industry, an account executive in the trade-show and exhibition field, and as a professional model-maker.
  
  Publications:
  

  • Paper, "The Large Design Project - Beyond Traditional Education," Industrial Designers Society of America Education Conference, 2002
  • Paper with Ron Sekulski, "Why Small Business Needs Design: Strategies for New Curriculum Development," Education Conference: Why Design, 1998
  • Paper with Steve Viser, "Entrepreneurial Design Center: Blurring the Boundaries Between Design, Education, and Business," Education Conference: Blurring Boundaries, 1997

  Presentation:
  

  • "Promoting Economic Development Through Design Education; Case Study Savannah College of Art and Design's Original Concept Boat," Georgia Economic Development Association Annual Conference, 2002

  Memberships:
  

  • American Craft Council
  • American Association of Woodturners

  
  
  
  
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  Giorgio Magliulo
  Savannah
  B.S., Accademia Navale; M.S., University of Genoa.
  
  
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  David Malouf
  Savannah
  B.A., University of California, Berkeley.
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  David Malouf is one of the primary founders and the first vice president of the Interaction Design Association, which held the organization's first IxDA conference at SCAD in 2008. He was previously senior interaction designer for Motorola Enterprise Mobility where he designed software, webware and hardware interactions and interfaces. In his more than 15 years of experience, Malouf developed his expertise in interaction design, information architecture, user interface design, project management and other client technologies.
  
  In addition to writing for his widely read blog, Malouf has been published online and in print on topics related to interaction design. He also teaches workshops on design.
  
  Courses:
  

  • Human/Computer Interaction
  • Interactive Product Design
  • Interaction Design Studio
  • Information Architecture
  • Perceptual and Cognitive Human Factors
  • Information Architecture for Designers
  • Interactive Product Design Process

  
  
  
  
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  John McCabe
  Savannah
  B.Arch., B.S., M.I.D., Auburn University. 
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  John McCabe joined the faculty in the SCAD industrial design department in 2007. His research background is in sustainability, an understanding of material reuse and allocation, and nurturing a desire to provide for those in need. He combines these passions to design products that can make a difference on a global level. He has participated in multiple study abroad programs, which allow him to better understand scale, immersive environments and how these relate to architectural and industrial design.
  
  His professional experience includes freelance design for his firm Fulcrum Collaborative, architecture design for Chapman Sisson Architects in Huntsville, Ala., and coordinating industry collaboration studios for SCAD and Auburn University.
  
  Courses:
  

  • Model and Prototype Development
  • Introduction to Industrial Design
  • Industrial Design in the Marketplace
  • Prototype Project Conceptualization/Construction
  • Commercial Practices for Industrial Design

  
  
  
  
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  John Morris
  Savannah
  B.S., Clemson University; B.S., M.I.D., Auburn University.
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  A native of Charleston, S.C., John Morris has been teaching in the SCAD industrial design department since 2001. His prior work experiences include product development, production line process design, graphic design and mapmaking. He has an entrepreneurial design business that continues to produce concept artwork, graphics and maps. His client list includes the Charleston Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Middleton Place Foundation, the South Carolina Irish Memorial, Eden Street Software, and the School of the Building Arts in Charleston.
  
  Publication:
  

  • "Charleston Illustrated: A Historic District Architectural Map" - co-produced with Heather Bailey, 2001.

  Courses:
  

  • Introduction to Industrial Design
  • Survey of Industrial Design
  • Idea Visualization
  • Introduction to Computer Aided Design
  • Design for the Marketplace
  • Advanced Product Rendering
  • Portfolio and Resume Design
  • Graduate Studios I, II and III
  • Marine Studio II

  
  
  
  
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  Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness
  Savannah
  B.A., University of Applied Sciences; M.F.A., The Ohio State University.
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  Verena Paepcke has been teaching and developing courses at SCAD since 2005 and is a founding member of the Council for Sustainability and Eco-practices at SCAD. Paepcke has taught at The Ohio State University and the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in Germany. She worked in research and development at Lear Corporation VisionWorks in Southfield, Michigan, developing concepts to incorporate new technologies into passenger cars. In Germany she developed concepts for improving lives of the elderly at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, and designed interiors for the Fairchild Dornier 728 jet with Industrial Design Studio Hamburg.
  
  Presentations and publications:
  

  • Sustainability lecture at the Department of Industrial, Interior and Visual Communications Design, The Ohio State University, April 2007
  • “Tools for Balancing Design: Analysis and Evaluation Methods for Restricted Workspaces,” The Ohio State University M.F.A. thesis, 2004

  
  
  
  
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  David Ringholz
  Savannah
  B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo; M.I.D., North Carolina State University.
  
  
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  Jesus Rojas Ache
  Savannah
  B.A., Instituto de Diseno de Caracas; M.A., Savannah College of Art and Design.
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  Born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela, Jesus Rojas' design career began at age 14 when he started designing and building surfboards. Following his design studies, he returned to Venezuela in 1998 and established his own design company, Station Design, where he designed yacht interiors, custom kitchens, retail stores and shopping centers.
  
  Rojas has spearheaded numerous projects while a professor at SCAD that have resulted in the creation of working prototypes, including the custom-designed car, EXO Spyder, and Grand Prix motorcycles for Red Bull. Additional industry partnership projects his classes have worked with are Kicker by Stillwater Designs and Kids II.
  
  Courses:
  

  • The Development of Product Form
  • Computer Modeling
  • Special Topics in Toy Design

  
  
  
  
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  Joel Wittkamp
  Savannah
  B.F.A., University of Illinois; M.Des., Royal College of Art.
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  Joel Wittkamp is president and CEO of Joel Wittkamp Design, a firm he established in 1986. He has received more than 200 patents for his designs for companies such as Dow Chemical, Rubbermaid and IBM, and his designs have won numerous awards, including a Gold award from the Industrial Design Society of America. He has been a member of the SCAD industrial design faculty since 2003, and has been recognized by Business Week magazine as accomplished faculty.
  
  Selected memberships and publications:
  

  • Industrial Design Society of America
  • Society of Artists and Designers (England)
  • Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • Society of Plastic Engineers
  • S.E. Center for Business Growth and Entrepreneurship
  • California Consumers United National Advisory Committee
  • "Ideation: The Art of Generating Ideas" (NCSU Press)
  • "Creativity: Why & How" and "A Designers Challenge" (Design Quarterly Review)

  Courses:
  

  • Manufacturing and Assembly Technology
  • Emerging Manufacturing Materials
  • Industrial Design Studio I and II
  • Industrial Design in the Marketplace
  • Industrial Design Innovation
  • Industrial Design M.A. Final Project