John Feland:
I think Rob raised a few eyebrows with this comment...
>People with purely art or engineering backgrounds usually do not design
>commercially successful consumer products.
>-Rob Curedale
Though Einstein didn't produce any commercially viable products, there are
countless examples of engineers that have designed successful
products. One that immediately springs to mind is Lonnie Johnson, inventor
of the wildly successful SuperSoaker watergun. (www.supersoaker.com)
Lonnie is a trained aerospace engineer and a noted expert in fluid
dynamics. You can find out more about him at
http://www.johnsonrd.com/net/index.htm.
I don't agree that there are countless examples of engineers designing successful consumer products in the world today. Large consumer product companies usually have industrial designers designing there products and engineers engineering their products. Companies like HP and Microsoft wouldn't employ industrial designers unless they thought that they helped sell their products. Einstein didn't design products. He did play the violin and may have been a good person to teach or develop curiculum at a music school. There is a trend for more companies to use industrial designers. My statement was a deliberately provocative one.
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