Member News

IDSA Student Member Ezra Depree is part of a Metropolitan State University of Denver industrial design duo that’s trying to make an environmental impact with sustainable design. Aqua Box by Depree and \Wendy Hughes won first place in a recent competition judged by water conservatin experts. It will be on display tthis June at the Watershed Summit 2017 at the Denver Botanic Gardens.

Two IDSA student members from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Robert Wang, S/IDSA, and Max Riece, S/IDSA, were part of a team of about a dozen RISD students that won second place for a second year in a row in the Human Exploration Rover Challenge at NASA's US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL.

IDSA Fellow William Plumb has passed away at the age of 84 in Piermont, NY. He is survived by his wife of 43 years Catherine​ Plumb, and children Christian Plumb and Abigail Plumb-Larrick. His daughter also works in design and human factors—in software—at Rockwell Automation. "My father believed in the marriage of beauty and usability at the heart of industrial design," his daughter tells the Society.

Savannah College of Art and Design industrial design senior Anna Haldewang, S/IDSA, has been featured on CNN Tech for developing the Plan Bee prototype—a small, yellow-and-black drone that would spread flower pollen, like a real bee does.