Overview
An important component of my scholarship focuses on innovative educational methods.
These methods have a practical application in my classroom and have also
resulted in journal publications and conference presentations on
inter-disciplinary design courses, design education strategies and innovative
CAD workflows. Additionally, I am the proud recipient of the 2017 Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Award
for Outstanding Teaching, RIT’s highest honor for excellence in teaching. This award is a huge milestone in my career as educator and it validates the effectiveness of bringing applied design research into the classroom. My educational methods follow the following key principles:
- Design is a creative, iterative, problem-solving
process.
- Design needs to address relevant needs around
users, society and environment, which are worth investing time, effort and
energy into them.
- Design is a practice-based discipline and engaging in interaction with
industry and other disciplines is a key component for understanding feasible
application and impact.
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Publications
“Statefulness and Tangible interaction in Design Education”
Industrial Designers Society
of America International Conference and Education Symposium – 2017
Atlanta, GA. Alex Lobos & Tim
Wood. Peer-reviewed
conference proceedings
http://www.idsa.org/educationpaper/statefulness-and-tangible-interaction-industrial-design-education
“Concursos de diseño:
beneficios desde afuera y desde adentro”
Véritce Review Magazine –
2017
Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala.
Invited magazine article
“Benefits of Video
Presentations in Product Design”
International
Journal of Technology and Inclusive Education – 2014
Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 208-213.
Peer-reviewed journal article
“Model for Interdisciplinary
Collaboration in Packaging Design”
The
International Journal of Designed Objects – 2013
Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 1-16.
Lorrie Frear, Alex Lobos & Sandra Turner. Peer-reviewed journal
article
“Carbon Neutrality in Design
Education”
Industrial Designers Society
of America International Conference and Education Symposium – 2013
Chicago, IL. Alex Lobos, Cong Yao
& Jongsoo Gang. Peer-reviewed conference
proceedings
“Using Videos for Final
Presentations in Product Design”
Canada International
Conference of Education – 2013
Toronto, ON. Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
“Class Blog: a case study on using collaborative online tools to enhance learning outcomes in interdisciplinary courses”
Tenth Annual Conference on
Teaching and Learning – 2011
Niagara, NY. Alex Lobos & Sandra Turner. Peer-reviewed conference
proceedings
“Meaning of Design Awards
and their Influence in Business and Education”
International Journal on
Design Principles and Practices – 2010
Vol. 4, No. 3, pp.165-178.
Alex Lobos & Deana McDonagh. Peer-reviewed journal article
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Presentations
Invited speaker: “Diseño
Industrial en RIT”
Colloquio de
Diseño (virtual). Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – 2013
Invited
presenter: “Educational Futures: Faculty Showcase”
Rochester
Institute of Technology, NY – 2012
Alex Lobos & Callie Babbitt.
Peer-reviewed
speaker: “Collaborative, cross-disciplinary, project-based courses for Innovation
and Sustainable Design”
Autodesk
University. Las Vegas NV – 2011
Adam Menter, Dawn Danby & Alex Lobos
Panelist: “Technology in The Classroom Idea Exchange”
RIT Faculty
Institute on Teaching and Learning. Rochester NY – 2011
Peer-reviewed speaker: “A model trans-disciplinary curriculum for sustainable design of electronics”
Electronics
and Sustainability Symposium. Champaign IL – 2011
Callie Babbitt, Alex Lobos, Ana Maria
Leal-Yepes and Sandra Turner
http://www.sustainelectronics.illinois.edu/symposia/2011/
Transdisciplinary Sustainable Design
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Media Mentions
Media Mentions
Industrial design professor combines passions at RIT
RIT University News – April 12, 2018
Research fuels ideas and creativity that power
RIT designers
RIT Research Magazine – Spring 2018
New Horizons for Making and Learning
Autodesk. Ed. Akshay Sharma – 2017
Improving Product Design
RIT Research Magazine – Spring/Summer 2017
RIT and Autodesk focused on designing for
success
RIT Athenaeum – April/May 2017
Sustainable
Design Education: an educator’s perspective
Autodesk – 2015
Ten Faculty to
Watch
RIT Athenaeum – October 09, 2014
Transdisciplinary Sustainable Design
RIT Educational Futures Showcase – 2012
90-second
laptop disassembly among top projects in international E-waste design
competition
RIT News – 2011
Student teams
win American Packaging Corp. and Kraft design challenge
RIT News – 2011
Industrial
Design team wins first place in international design competition
RIT News – 2010
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Student examples
MFA ID - Thesis projects 2016-17
Advisors: Alex Lobos and Mindy Magyar
Advisors: Alex Lobos and Mindy Magyar
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Project from: Graduate ID Studio
Honorable Mention: 2018 International Housewares Design Competition
1st place: 2018 Gaia Dinnerware Competition
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Project from: Junior ID Studio
1st place: 2015 International Housewares Design Competition
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Project from: Junior ID Studio
3rd place: 2015 International Housewares Design Competition
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Autodesk research project - 2016
Sustainable Design with Fusion 360
PI: Alex Lobos
Graduate Research Designers: Lara Goulart, Andrew Magee, Mariana Pinheiro, Trupti Pomaje
Graduate Research Designers: Lara Goulart, Andrew Magee, Mariana Pinheiro, Trupti Pomaje