2016
Invited Presenter & Panelist, SPE Design in Plastics Conference
2015
Invited Presenter, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Design Day.
2014
Invited Panel Facilitator, Greater Philadelphia Manufacturing Summit, Track 1, Innovation:Creating New Value, Products, Processes & Markets
2014
Invited Opening Speaker, Wharton Education Design Studio; Design Thinking Intensive.
2014
Invited Speaker, Eastman Design Educators Luncheon, IDSA International Conf., Austin, TX
2013
Invited Juror, CES Innovation Award
2013
Invited Juror, IDEA Brazil Awards, Objeto Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2013
Wharton Small Business Development Center, “Innovation in Small Business”
2012
Invited Speaker, United States Patent and Trademark Office, DesignDay.
2012
Invited Speaker, Industrial Designers Society of America NED Conference 20 Invited Speaker, Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center
2009
Invited Speaker, Industrial Design Evolution, From Visual to Visceral to Virtual, Project Fusion Conference. Miami, FL
2009
Invited Speaker, Entrepreneur’s Panel, Wharton Energy Conference, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Invited Speaker, Sustain 08, Chicago, “SRS Energy, Sustainability in Roofing Products
2008
Invited Speaker, Villanova University, “Doing Well by Doing Good.”
2008
Invited Speaker, IDSA Spotlight Webinar, Residual Income, the Holy Grail 2007 University of Pennsylvania 20/20 lecture series
Juror, CES Innovation Award
2005
Juror, CES Innovation Award Juror, Dyson awards Juror, P&G Innovations Award
2005
Juror, CES Innovation Award
Invited Speaker, National Conference of the Industrial Designers Society of America, Wash DC Invited Speaker, the Green Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
2004
Juror, National Housewares Association Innovations Awards
2003
Invited Speaker, Product Development Management Association, Philadelphia, PA
2001
Invited speaker, Paper presentation, Designing for Global Products, Rockwell Global Learning Fair: A Passport to Asia-Pacific, Cleveland, Ohio
2001
Invited Speaker, the Housewares Manufacturer’s Association meeting, Chicago, Illinois 1999 Invited Speaker, the Housewares Manufacturer’s Association meeting, Chicago, Illinois 1998 Invited Speaker, Industrial Designers Society of America Southern District Conference, St Augustine, FL
1998
Invited Speaker, The Housewares Manufacturer’s Association meeting, Chicago, Illinois 1998 Invited Speaker, Temple University Association of Retired Professionals, Philadelphia, PA 1997 Invited Speaker, The Housewares Manufacturer’s Association meeting, Chicago, Illinois
1996
Invited Juror, Innovative Use of Materials Award, Philadelphia Furniture Show, Philadelphia, PA 1995 Jury Chair, Industrial Designers Society of America’s Industrial Design Excellence Awards program
1993
Invited Speaker, Quality in Design Workshop, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC 1993 Invited Juror, Industrial Designers Society of America’s Industrial Design Excellence Awards program
1992
Invited Speaker, 14th Annual Design Interaction, Auburn University, Alabama 1992 Invited Speaker, The World Class Product Design Conference, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA (“The Emergence of Industrial Design”)
1991
Invited Speaker, EEC Design conference, Toulon, France (“Designing the Product Development Team”)
1991
Invited Speaker, Taidi’ 91 Conference, Taipei, Taiwan (“The product design process”)
1990
Invited Speaker, IDSA Annual Conference, Santa Barbara, California (“Designing the Product Development Team” )
Invited Speaker, Design forum ‘90, Taipei, Taiwan (“The product’s role in corporate identity”) Invited Speaker, Benjamin Franklin Technology Seminar Series ( “How to evaluate and contract Industrial Design services” )
1989
Invited Juror, The Krupps International Design Competition
Invited Speaker, The International Congress of Societies of Industrial Design, Nagoya, Japan (“Design excellence in a socio/cultural context”)
1988
Invited Juror ID Magazine Design Review
1987
Invited Consultant and Lecturer (2 weeks) to The Peoples Republic of China, Tianjin, China (“Consumer electronics in western markets”)
1986
Invited presenter to Yugoslavia for the “Design America” Exhibit by the United States Information Agency (“Design Consulting in the USA”)
1985
Invited presenter at the International Congress of Industrial Designers International Conference, Washington, DC (‘The concurrent design process”)
1982
Invited Juror, Industrial Designers Society of America’s Industrial Design Excellence Awards program
1975
Invited Juror, ID Magazine 1975 Design Review
1974
Invited participant of the National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council’s 1st Workshop on Mobility for Spinal-cord Impaired People
Invited presentation of a Paper, “The Development of The Standup Wheelchair”, to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1971
“The Standup Wheelchair” Published in Industrial Design, Interiors and Fortune Magazines; also AP and UP releases
1969
Publication of “The Standup Wheelchair” in Design News, Industrial Design and other professional journals