Hasso Plattner Institute of Design
Encyclopedia
The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (also known as the Hasso Plattner Institute for Design, and informally, as the "D-School" or "d.school") is a design school based in Stanford University
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The school was founded by Stanford mechanical engineering
professor David Kelley in 2004. It is a joint project between the university and the Hasso Plattner Institute
in Germany. Like some other design schools, it integrates business and management training into more traditional engineering and product design education.
light now in use in some third world rural communities. The Pulse News Reader was developed at a contest in 2010, and became the highest-selling application at Apple's App Store.
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
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The school was founded by Stanford mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
professor David Kelley in 2004. It is a joint project between the university and the Hasso Plattner Institute
Hasso Plattner Institute
The Hasso Plattner Institute ', or HPI, is a German information technology college, affiliated to the University of Potsdam and located in Potsdam-Babelsberg near Berlin. It was founded in 1998 and is the first, and still the only, entirely privately-funded college in Germany...
in Germany. Like some other design schools, it integrates business and management training into more traditional engineering and product design education.
Products
Among the products launched from the Institute are the Embrace blanket, a low-cost alternative to neonatal incubators and the d.light, a solar-powered LEDLEd
LEd is a TeX/LaTeX editing software working under Microsoft Windows. It is a freeware product....
light now in use in some third world rural communities. The Pulse News Reader was developed at a contest in 2010, and became the highest-selling application at Apple's App Store.
External links
- dschool.stanford.edu - official site