Product Design Engineering 2022 Degree Show

I was honoured to be back at my old haunt, the Product Design Engineering (PDE) studio of Glasgow School of Art - but this time instead of presenting my final year project I was on the other side... as part of a panel of judges.

The PDE course, which is a joint undergraduate Bachelors and Masters degree with the University of Glasgow, has long since produced amazing graduates who go on to do great things in varying careers, with many starting their own company often based around their final year project or working for international product design companies. It is a great course for harvesting creativity with practical real life solutions.

Not that I count myself as one of those amazing graduates (!) but looking back I can see how the transferrable skills I learnt during my five years on the course have been invaluable to my patent attorney role. It has enabled me to understand the design process that my clients have gone through to get the point that they come talk