Ed Dorsa

Ed Dorsa, IDSA | Virginia Tech

Ed Dorsa, IDSA is an associate professor of industrial design at Virginia Tech and assistant director of the School of Architecture + Design.  He has been teaching design for over two decades now with appointments at Iowa State, Arizona State and Virginia Commonwealth University, before coming to Virginia Tech in 1998. He teaches Junior ID Studio, Materials and Processes, and has a National Science Foundation funded studio in interdisciplinary product development, with faculty from engineering and marketing. In 2005 Dorsa was chosen by Design Intelligence as one of the 40 most admired ID faculty in the US.  He is past VP of education for IDSA and serves as a member of the Commission on Accreditation for NASAD.