Pride Pairs with College Students on Design Ideas

Pride
Mobility Products Corp., Exeter, Pa., said last week it is
collaborating with Metropolitan State College of
Denver’s Department of Industrial Design, which focuses
on product design in manufacturing. During the 2009 winter
semester, Pride will work with 15 junior and senior students on an
industrial design project from design research, ideation and
conceptualization to final presentation deliverables. Each student
will be assigned a Pride mentor who will assist them throughout the
project. The college will grade the students’ projects, and Pride
will review and comment on their submissions. “This project is
intended to encourage and develop design thinking skills, foster
disability awareness and give students a glimpse of professional
life,” said Col Jones, Pride’s director of product design. “The
return on educational collaboration is a future professional who
thinks outside of the box, can identify and focus on a consumer and
see that their needs are met with exceptionally well-designed
products.”