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MEETTHEJUDGES James H. Bleck is the founder and president of Bleck Design Group, an award-winning Bostonarea industrial design, engineering and product development firm based in North Chelmsford, Mass. Prior to founding Bleck Design Group in 1982, his experience included senior design positions with Latham/Brefka and Digital Equipment Corp. Bleck Design Group has earned more than 25 design awards from Appliance Design magazine, Canon Communications, I.D. Magazine, IDSA/ BusinessWeek, Structural Plastics, The Chicago Athenaeum, and The International Consumer Electronics Show; including two “Design of the Decade” awards from IDSA/BusinessWeek for the AVC Electronic Voting Machine and Polycom Soundstation. Bleck is the current chairman and a cofounder of the Merrimack Valley Venture Forum. He has served as a juror for IDSA/Business Week International Design Excellence Award and Consumer Electronics Show Innovation Award competitions. He has been an IDSA member since 1977. He has written and contributed to design articles for Design News, Medical Design Technology, Medical Product Manufacturing News, and Moldmaking Technology. He is a frequent speaker on product design to business and academic audiences. He received his BFA in Industrial Design from the University of Illinois in 1976, and completed graduate studies in management at Northeastern University (Boston). Email: info@bleckdesigngroup.com Web: www.bleckdesigngroup.com Rich Buttiglieri is a Usability Consultant at the Design and Usability Center at Bentley College, Waltham, Mass., with more than 20 years of experience in product design and evaluation. He has considerable experience conducting user-centered design studies of software, consumer electronics and medical products for mass markets, as well as highly specialized vertical markets. Before joining Bentley in 2003, Buttiglieri designed and evaluated both web-based applications as well as desktop applications working for companies such as Digital, BBN, HP, Lotus, Concord Communications and MarketSoft. For the past several years, Buttiglieri has been a judge for two prestigious product design competitions: Innovations at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) and the User-Centered Product Design Award sponsored by the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES). He has judged a wide range of products, including digital imaging, mobile and vehicle electronics, home networking, medical devices, and home theater. Buttiglieri holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Lowell and a Graduate Certificate in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is a member of the Usability Professionals’ Association, HFES Product Design Technical Group, the UPA Boston, and BostonCHI. Email: rbuttiglieri@bentley.edu Web: www.bentley.edu/usability Seth Orsborn is an assistant professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, Mo. Orsborn has a keen interest in the relationship between mechanical and aesthetic design in product development that developed from a diverse background in mechanics and the arts. He has worked for, and consulted with, a variety of companies regarding new product development and the impact of aesthetic design. Orsborn teaches engineering design and product development at Missouri S&T and is a practicing freelance graphic artist. He also directs the Qualitative Design Research Group at Missouri S&T, which focuses on the boundary between engineering design and industrial design in the product design process. Orsborn’s research has been published in refereed journals and presented at national and international conferences. In addition to studying painting and other arts, he received his Bachelor of Science in 2003 from the University at Buffalo (State University of New York), his Master of Science in 2005 and Doctor of Philosophy in 2007 from Carnegie Mellon University. All of his degrees are in mechanical engineering. Orsborn is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Industrial Designers Society of America. < Web: www.ide.mst.edu Or: www.web.mst.edu/~orsborns 20 applianceDESIGN June 2008 www.applianceDESIGN.com http://www.bleckdesigngroup.com http://www.bentley.edu/usability http://www.ide.mst.edu http://www.web.mst.edu/~orsborns http://www.appliancedesign.com

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Appliance Design - June 2008 Contents Editorial Shipments/Forecasts News Watch 21st Annual Excellence in Design Winning Designs Combine State-of-the-art Technology with . . . Meet the Judges Design Marts Fans & Blowers Mother Nature Has Her Own Ideas About Designing for Fluid Flow . . . Using CFD Simulation Software Early in the Product Development . . . Electronics Digital Signal Controllers Enable Digital Motor Control . . . Classifieds Meetings Advertiser’s Index Association Report: AHRI

Appliance Design - June 2008

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