D-Schools 2007

Arizona State University, College of Design

Tempe, Ariz.

2,480 students, both grad and undergrad
Design, Engineering, and Business

Partnerships
Academic: Arizona State's Colleges of Engineering and Business
Business: Intel and Herman Miller sponsor class projects.
Top Employers: IDEO

Claim to Fame: Famous alumni include Hagy Belzberg, Jeffrey Cook, Wellington Reiter, Darren Petrucci, Philip White, Harvey Bryan, Prasad Boradkar, and Jamil Al Shraiky.

Signature Programs: InnovationSpace is a studio where students from design, business, and engineering work on company-sponsored prototyping projects as well as projects on sustainable design. GlobalResolve is another interdisciplinary program, where students work on low-cost humanitarian designs for the developing world.