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Reinhart Butter
Professor, Department of Design
Areas of Expertise
• Product ergonomics and semantics
• Product planning and development
Professor Butter has 35 years of teaching, research, and professional
expertise in both the United States and Germany, ranging from vehicles
and transportation, medical and therapeutic, entertainment and communication,
education and learning, tools and machinery, to consumer products and
toys.
Since joining the Ohio State University in 1967, he has been instrumental
in curriculum development of the undergaduate and graduate program in
Design, has extensively guest lectured both nationally and internationally,
as well as co-organized and conducted workshops and conferences, e.g.
at the UIAH in Helsinki, Finland. At OSU, Professor Butter initiated and
supervised funded student projects for companies such as Borg-Warner Chemicals,
ASC Colamco, IBM Systems, Kone Elevators, Mercedes-Unimong, Siemens, Wilsonart,
Timex, Ford Research, and Airbus Industries. His contract research included
clients such as Freightliner, GE Plastics, Sears Manufacturing, Mercedes-Benz,
Isringhausen, and Lucanus in Germany.
As design consultant, Professor Butter specializes in the application
of product ergonomics and semantics, most currently to medical devices
and systems for a number of companies in California. His design work for
the Korean companies Fursys and Iloom recently earned him seven design
awards in Asia and Europe.
Education
• Post graduate studies, Royal College of Art, London
• Graduate and undergraduate degrees, Ulm School of Design, W. Germany
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