May 21, 2015

One year ago, the first class to graduate from our Product Design program packed up their URBN Center studio spaces and headed into the world, armed with the professional and design skills needed to create innovative, human-centered solutions to today’s problems. We caught up with some of the inaugural graduates to find out what life has been like after earning a Drexel degree in Product Design—they are, after all, the first ones to ever do so. After graduation in 2014, Megan Peaslee participated in the Westphal-Close-Corzo Center Entrepreneurial program, an intensive six-week summer program where she worked on the business development of the project she created as her senior thesis. She followed this with an internship at Waltzing Matilda USA, a leather company based in Wayne, PA where she was able to do technical design work. She now serves as a UX (user-experience) Design Researcher at Honeywell's HUE (Honeywell User Experience) Group.

Megan says, “Having the multidisciplinary focus of product design and psychology, as well as some engineering and business, really helped me to quickly become accustomed to Honeywell's environment.  Also, having very strong adjunct and full time professors who work in the User Research field really helped me to find what I am passionate about, and helped to motivate me to chase something that isn't a traditional product/industrial design path.”

Since graduation Osman Cueto has worked as an industrial designer at DESIGNLYNX LLC, a Product Design and Engineering firm in the Philadelphia area—an experience for which he says his degree has been invaluable in providing necessary skills and know-how, and in teaching him innovative ways of thinking and creating. Osman first entered Drexel as an Engineering major but quickly found his passion in Product Design. He received a great deal of media coverage for his senior project, BREATHE, a “connected” inhaler with a mobile app that helps the user learn more about asthma. The app also tracks where the inhaler is located, when and where the inhaler is used, how much medicine is left in it and when refills are needed.

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