2013 Invited Juror, IDEA Brasil Awards, Objeto Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2012 Invited Speaker, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Design Day.
2012 Invited Speaker, Industrial Designers Society of America NED Conference
2011 Invited Speaker, Delaware Valley Industrial Resource Center
2009 Invited Speaker, Project Fusion Conference. Miami, FL “Industrial Design Evolution, From Visual to Visceral to Virtual”
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 Invited Speaker, University of Pennsylvania, 20/20 lecture series
2007 Juror, CES Innovation Award
2006 Juror, CES Innovation Award
2006 Juror, Dyson awards
2006 Juror, P&G Innovations Award
2005 Juror, CES Innovation Award
2005 Invited Speaker, National Conference of the Industrial Designers Society of America, Wash DC
2005 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, “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, PA Furniture Show,
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, Co-chair: 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”)
1990 Invited Speaker, Design Forum ‘90, Taipei, Taiwan (“The Product’s Role in Corporate Identity”)
1990 Invited Speaker, Benjamin Franklin Technology Seminar Series (“How to Evaluate and Contract Industrial Design Services”)
1989 Invited Juror, The Krupps International Design Competition
1989 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 Tianjin, the People’s Republic of China (“Consumer Electronics in Western Markets”)
1986 Invited presenter to Lubianna & Sarajevo 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
1974 Invited presentation of a paper, “The Development of The Standup Wheelchair”, to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1 971 “The Stand-up 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