Stephen Melamed

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Full Name	Stephen Melamed
Occupation	University Teacher
Date Of Birth	Mar 1, 1951(1951-03-01)
Age	73
Birthplace	New York
Country	United States
Horoscope	Pisces

Stephen Melamed Biography

Stephen Melamed is one of the most popular and richest University Teacher who was born on March 1, 1951 in New York, United States. Melamed was born on March 1, 1951 , in New York City, and obtained a bachelors as well as a master’s degree in industrial design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also studied under the designer/artist/author Werner Graeff. The mentor he worked with throughout his life was Robert Graeff, son of Werner who was an accomplished Swiss industrial designer teacher and architect of his own. Melamed began his career as a designer working at Koch+Lowy within New York City designing residential lighting. Later, he moved into the non-profit sector at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. While working for MS&I He was co-author along with Thomas O Byerts of the report “By Design: Museum Environments for All,” Based on an outcome of the project, he also was a participant during the 1982 First International Interdisciplinary Design Conference at the United Nations in New York City.

In 2010, he was ranked in 2010 by Design Intelligence one of the Top 25 Design Educators in the United States, and in 2011, he was named one of the Midwest Teacher of the Year from the Industrial Designers Society of America.

In 2016 Stephen Melamed earned the distinction of being inducted into the IDSA Academy of Fellows at the IDSA International Conference 2016. The Academy confers this honor to members in good standing who have earned the special respect and affection of the membership through distinguished service to the society and to the profession as a whole. His work archives are now included in Special Collections at the UIC Library.

In 2000, Melamed was recruited to teach at the University of Illinois at Chicago to help create the cross-functional curriculum that became known as “IPD”(Interdisciplinary Product Development). The curriculum is designed to allow students from three disciplines and allows them to work in small teams , collaborating with corporate sponsors that conduct research in real-time. He is among the faculty members who founded UIC Innovation Center. UIC Innovation Center. He was also named as Associate Director for the IPD Program at the Innovation Center.

Stephen Melamed Net Worth

Stephen Melamed is one of the richest University Teacher from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stephen Melamed 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Melamed was granted the Design Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts (1980) as well as an World Games Grant from the R. Buckminster Fuller Foundation (1981).

When he was in 1985 Melamed created his own company, the Tres Design Group along with two of his colleagues whom he met during his graduate college, Luc Heiligenstein and Francois Geneve. The firm initially focused on consumer goods but later expanded into medical and industrial items and also incorporating human-centered design research and graphic user interface design. Over the course of nearly three decades consulting, Melamed has worked on the design, research and creation of numerous items and technologies.

Since 2010, Melamed has been a consulting Professor for interdisciplinary work at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco in Mexico City. In 2000, a he was a founding member of the not-for-profit AIGA national design advocacy group, Design For Democracy (D4D) and has served on its Board of Directors.

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Stephen Ranked on the list of most popular University Teacher. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Stephen Melamed celebrates birthday on March 1 of every year.