Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems
Co-Director, MIT CADlab

Dr. Wallace received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering Design from MIT. His research interests include environmentally-conscious product design, integrated computer-aided design, industrial design and aesthetics, and product design and new media education. His teaching interests are in the areas of product design, industrial design, environmentally-conscious design and visual communication. He has received a number of awards, including the ASME International Design Engineering Division, Design for Manufacturing Committee IBM Best Paper Award for Integrating Environmental Impact Assessment into Product Design.

Dr. Wallace has published numerous articles in publications that include The Journal of Industrial Ecology, the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, the Proceedings of the ASME DT Conferences, the International Journal of Product Design and Process Development, the Journal of the Chemical Engineering Society of Japan, and Computer-aided Design. Many articles are available on the MIT CADlab website.

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