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The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, commonly known as the d.school, is a
The Institute was founded by Stanford
design thinking
Design thinking refers to the set of Cognition, cognitive, strategic and practical procedures used by designers in the process of Design, designing, and to the body of knowledge that has been developed about how people reason when engaging with des ...
institute based at Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
. David M. Kelley
David M. Kelley (born February 10, 1951) is an American engineer, designer, entrepreneur, businessman, and educator. He is co-founder of the design firm IDEO and a professor at Stanford University. He has received several honors for his contrib ...
and Bernard Roth founded the program. According to the ''New York Times
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'', the d.school has become one of the most highly sought academic programs at Stanford.
History
The Institute was founded by Stanford mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...
professor David M. Kelley
David M. Kelley (born February 10, 1951) is an American engineer, designer, entrepreneur, businessman, and educator. He is co-founder of the design firm IDEO and a professor at Stanford University. He has received several honors for his contrib ...
, six other professors, and George Kembel in 2004. The program integrates business, law, medicine, social sciences and humanities into more traditional engineering and product design education.
The institute got its current name from Hasso Plattner
Hasso Plattner (born 21 January 1944) is a German businessman. A co-founder of SAP SE software company, he has been chairman of the supervisory board of SAP SE since May 2003. As of August 2020, ''Forbes'' reported that he possessed a net worth o ...
, co-founder of SAP SE
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software, who contributed $35 million towards its founding. The institute cooperates closely with the Hasso Plattner Institute
The Hasso Plattner Institute (Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH), abbreviated HPI, is a German information technology
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in Potsdam
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, Germany
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.
Products
Among the products launched from the Institute are theEmbrace
Embrace may refer to:
* A hug, a form of physical intimacy
* Acceptance
Music Bands
* Embrace (American band), a post-hardcore band from Washington, D.C.
* Embrace (English band), a post-Britpop band from West Yorkshire
* Embrace (duo), a Dan ...
blanket, a low-cost alternative to neonatal incubators and the d.light, a solar-powered LED
A light-emitting diode (LED) is a semiconductor Electronics, device that Light#Light sources, emits light when Electric current, current flows through it. Electrons in the semiconductor recombine with electron holes, releasing energy i ...
light now in use in some rural communities in the developing world. The Pulse News Reader was developed in a d.school class in 2010, and became the highest-selling application at Apple's App Store
An App Store (or app marketplace) is a type of digital distribution platform for computer software called applications, often in a mobile context. Apps provide a specific set of functions which, by definition, do not include the running of the co ...
.
See also
*Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
*Stanford Center for Design Research
The Center for Design Research (CDR) is a research center at Stanford University, in Stanford, California. The Center for Design Research was founded in 1984 by a collection of faculty from Stanford's Design Division, with money from companies i ...
*Stanford Joint Program in Design
The Joint Program in Design (officially Stanford Graduate Program in Product Design, colloquially Stanford Design Program) was a graduate program jointly offered by the Mechanical Engineering Department and the Art Department at Stanford Universit ...
References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hasso Plattner Institute Of Design Stanford University Design schools in the United States