D-Schools 2007

North Carolina State University College of Design*

Raleigh, N.C.

750 students, both grad and undergrad
Design

Partnerships
Academic: Business School at North Carolina State University; joint degree with IAE in France on Global Innovation Management and an exchange with the University of Prague (Czech Republic)
Business: Course project sponsors include GlaxoSmithKline, Nortel, John Deere, IBM.
Top Employers: IDEO, IBM, Industrial Light & Magic, USA Today, dwell

Claim to Fame: Alumnus Mark Kimbaugh designed Dell's first laptops.

Signature Programs: In the interdisciplinary innovation concentration, designers, engineers and MBA students work together on lab projects for companies. Engineers and MBAs also team up in a Service Design concentration that is partially sponsored by IBM. In a joint degree with the Insitutute of Aix-en-Provence, NC students complete their projects for international companies whilst on a semester in France.