1998 Donald Dohner (1897-1943)
At its annual conference in San Diego, California, IDSA honored Mr. Dohner posthumously as an industrial design pioneer practitioner and educator. He headed design at Westinghouse in 1929, and in 1934 established the first degree-granting program for industrial design at Carnegie Institute of Technology. In 1935 he created a similar program at Pratt Institute. For more on the biography and career of Mr. Dohner, see the bio on 100 Years of Design-A Chronology 1895-1995).

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