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Tour the Design Center and listen to an award-winning industrial designer


Come to the latest exciting episode of the Pathfinder Mentoring Program
Both mentors and the mentored are welcome to a tour of the IBM Design Center, where innovative designs win awards and amaze us all.

Luis Elizalde is an industrial designer who specializes in mobile and wearable technology — he worked on the design of the first IBM wearable computer and other head-mounted technology. Luis Elizalde will talk about his work on TradeWorks, a new system for processing buy-and-sell orders on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) trading floor.
Hand-held stock technology — created by the IBM Design Center
Come and hear Luis talk about how he helped meet the NYSE's need for a reliable device for use on the trading floor. Luis will describe the iterative design process — inherent in all development projects — that took place in the development of the NYSE handheld device. IBM designed 3,000 custom TradeWorks handheld units for traders to use on the trading floor. You can see that it looks great, and it works great too — it won a 2005 Silver IDEA Product Design Award sponsored by Business Week and the Industrial Designer’s Society of America (IDSA), among other awards.

Date:           October 25, 2007
Time:          1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Location:     Arrive at 1:15 p.m. and meet in the IBM Bldg 002 lobby, Research Triangle Park
                    to get signed in. The event starts promptly at 1:30 p.m.
RSVP:          Sign up by Friday, October 19, 2007

Come and hear about this exciting invention and take a tour of the birthplace of the TradeWorks handheld! For more information, contact Linda Brown at blinda@us.ibm.com or Chris Pepper at rcpepper@us.ibm.com.

Visit us at www.ibm.ncsu.edu/pathfinder

Getting there: the nuts and bolts
Please RSVP by Friday, October 19, 2007. We'll meet at IBM in the building 002 lobby at 1:15 p.m. so we can get you checked in and badges distributed.  The tour will begin promptly at 1:30 p.m. Directions from I-40 are:
  • Take the Davis Drive exit - EXIT 280
  • Merge right off the exit ramp going towards RTP
  • Cross over Cornwallis Road and stop at the Guard Gate (explain you are a student visitor and give them my name)
  • When you come to the 4-way stop, turn right to enter the visitor parking lot for building 002.  When you get to the gate, push the button and announce who you are and the purpose of your visit.
  • The lobby is in the front entrance of the building.

For those who want to find another way, the address is 3039 Cornwallis Road, RTP, NC 27709

For those of you who do not have your own transportation, here are some options:
  1. Students can rent the NCSU van for official student organization activity. You will pay for the gas and will need someone to drive the van.
  2. Take the TTA bus from Hillsborough to RTP (the main TTA bus stop on Highway 54).  From there take another small TTA bus to IBM building 002
  3. Get a ride with another student in the program.