Bill Dresselhaus is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Engineering and Technology Management Department. He is also the President and CEO of Dresselhaus Group, Inc., a product design and design education consultancy. Dr. Dresselhaus was Joint Invited Professor of Product Design and Design Management at the Hongik University in Seoul, Korea (Sep 2009 - Aug 2016).
Dr. Dresselhaus was one of the early product designers in Silicon Valley, California, in the 1970’s and the second Product Designer at Apple Computer. He managed the product and industrial design of the Apple Lisa (the forerunner of the Macintosh) and also the industrial design of its’ mouse. Dr. Dresselhaus was Manager of Product Design and later Acting Director of Opto-Mechanical Design at InFocus Systems in Oregon. His clients include Apple Computer, InFocus, Hewlett-Packard, LG Chemical, Sun Microsystems.
Dr. Dresselhaus has a PhD in Product Design Engineering from Wuppertal University Mechanical and Safety Engineering in Germany, as well as two masters degrees, one in Engineering from Iowa State and the other in Product Design from Stanford University. He has Executive Industrial Design Program training from the Art Center College of Design in California. His PhD dissertation project concerns developing a methodology for geometric product form design for high technology product development. He currently consults and teaches internationally for a variety of organizations, undergraduate, and graduate students.
Research Interests & Expertise
- Product Design
- Product development
- Design Thinking
- Design Management