Philip White, assistant professor of industrial design, specializes in ecodesign strategies and advanced methods for environmental-impact assessment. White has organized the development of the Okala Ecological Design Curriculum that is used by more than 40 schools of product design in North America and has written extensively about design and ecology. An ecodesign expert and product designer, White developed products for IID (Japan), Philips Design (The Netherlands), and Ziba and Fiori (USA). White has won international product design awards (IF, ID magazine, IDEA) and holds 14 patents.