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Jacques R. Giard is Professor of Industrial Design in the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. While at ASU he has served as Director of the School of Design, Director of Cross-College Programs and Director of the MSD and Ph.D. Programs. Before coming to ASU, he was director of the School of Industrial Design at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. Professor Giard received his undergraduate education in furniture design in Montreal (1969), graduate studies industrial design (engineering) in Birmingham, UK (1971), and a Ph.D. from Concordia University in Montreal (1987). Before becoming a design educator Professor Giard had extensive professional experience in Canada with various design consultancies and manufacturers. He is the author of two books: Design FAQs and Designing: A journey Through Time, both used as university textbooks on basic design. He has had over 50 articles and papers published in various journals and magazines in North America and Europe. He was the lead design researcher with Price-Waterhouse in a $500,000 Government of Canada investigation on the Canadian design sector (1995–96). Professor Giard was national president of the Association of Canadian Industrial Designers and a member of the organizing committee for the ICSID 97 Congress, The Humane Village.