Sooshin Choi is an industrial designer, design educator, and design leader. He is currently the Chair of Industrial Design Program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. He also is the CEO and CDO at The Modus Design, a service offering advanced design education and design innovation consulting in New Hampshire.
His professional experience includes eighteen years of automotive design at General Motors Korea and Kia Motors, five years of system furniture design at Fursys, and three years of innovative product design at DEKA Research and Development. In addition, he continues developing designs as a design consultant for clients in the US, Korea, and China. He holds 56 design and utility patents in Korea and the US and is a recipient of some prestigious awards such as IF Hannover, IDEA, and Good Design Award.
As a design educator, he was the Provost & Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Design at the College for Creative Studies for four years until January 2018. As a Chief Academic Officer at CCS, he was responsible for developing vision and leadership for all matters related to academics. He has taught at and served as a School Director at the University of Cincinnati for over ten years before joining CCS. His research focus topics are innovation by design and inclusive design, which helped develop innovative designs in collaboration with major industries, including Procter & Gamble, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, Hyundai Motors, Crown Equipment, Boeing Company, and Mead Westvaco. He is awarded IDSA Educator of the Year 2014.
As a design leader, he is a recognized speaker and delivered keynotes at conferences, corporations, and academia globally. He also served as a judge and a jury for numerous international design competitions, including IDEA, Braun Prize, and Car Design Awards China, to name a few. In addition, Choi is a member of the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA); he served as the Education Vice President from 2012-2014 and the Chair of the IDSA International Conference 2016 in Detroit.
He has studied industrial design and vehicle design at The Ohio State University, Royal College of Art (PEP Diploma), Hongik University (MFA), Seoul National University of Science and Technology (BA), and National Kyounggi College (in reverse chronological order).
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