About David G. Ullman
David G. Ullman is an internationally recognized expert on product design and decision-making best practices. He recently published the “Product Design Best Practices”, a textbook that supersedes the 6th edition of “The Mechanical Design Process”, the leading text used to teach mechanical engineers the processes of product design.
He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University and was Professor of Mechanical Design at Oregon State University for 20 years. He is a Life Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and founder of its Design Theory and Methodology committee.
He has founded two corporations to commercialize his ideas. The first company manufactured personal transportation products, grew to seven-digit annual sales, and became the largest manufacturer in its field. He served as CEO during the first years of the corporation and was chairman of the board for the life of the organization. The products Ullman designed for this company won national awards.
The second corporation Ullman founded developed software, training and facilitation material around his Robust Decisions concepts.
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He holds ten patents.
Dr Ullman has taught hundreds of courses in his career, both in industry and academia:
Most recently he has taught design best practices and Agile design methods for Trijicon, Allied Motion, Lutron and Omega Engineering.
He has taught decision-making courses at: Hewlett Packard, Boeing, Pratt and Whitney, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Harley Davidson.
He has taught product design processes to thousands of university students and hundreds of industry professionals at Lucent, Cummins, Sequent, Comfortex, Schlumberger, JPL, Metronic, Tektronix, Mentor Graphics, Novellus, and Freightliner.
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