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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★2020 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education from National Academy of Engineering
★2001 Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Product Design
★2009 Edison Achievement Award for Innovation
★Sir Misha Black Medal for distinguished contribution to design education
★Chrysler Design Award
★Member of National Academy of Engineers (inducted 2000)
★2019 honorary Doctor of Science and Technology from Carnegie Mellon University
★Honorary doctorates from Dartmouth and ArtCenter College of Design
Notable Facts
→Founder of IDEO (1991), world-renowned design and innovation consultancy
→Founded Stanford's d.school (Hasso Plattner Institute of Design) in 2004
→Donald W. Whittier Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University
→Co-authored New York Times bestselling book 'Creative Confidence' with brother Tom Kelley
→Co-founded Onset Ventures (1984), early-stage venture capital firm
→Co-founded Edge Innovations, special effects company for Free Willy movies
→Created iconic Apple Mouse design through early company Hovey-Kelley Design
→Pioneered 'Design Thinking' methodology now taught worldwide
→Has taught at Stanford for nearly 50 years as student and professor
→Lives on Stanford campus in faculty housing he redesigned
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