Industry Affiliate Program for Teaching Design Thinking | Members

AY26

• Gilead Sciences (Foster City, CA, USA)
• GreenWaste (San Jose, CA, USA)
• Renewell Energy (Bakersfield, CA, USA)
• Sunway Solar (Col Polanco, Mexico)
• Volkswagen of America, Inc. (Belmont, CA, USA)

AY25

• Hamilton Company (Reno, NV, USA)
• Singapore Institute of Technology (Singapore)

AY24

• Designing Your Life Institute, Ltd. (Singapore)
• Snap, Inc. (Santa Monica, CA, USA)

AY23

• GS Beyond (San Mateo, CA, USA)
• Snap, Inc. (Santa Monica, CA, USA)

AY22

• Snap, Inc. (Santa Monica, CA, USA)

AY21

• Scania (Södertälje, Sweden)
• Snap, Inc. (Santa Monica, CA, USA)
• IBM (Austin, TX, USA)

AY20

• Blue Ocean Gear, Inc. (Redwood City, CA, USA)
• Global Sensing & Learning (San Francisco, CA, USA)
• Higher Ground, LLC (Palo Alto, CA, USA)
• IBM (Austin, TX, USA)
• Scania (Södertälje, Sweden)
• Snap, Inc. (Santa Monica, CA, USA)
• Target (Minneapolis, MN, USA)

AY19

• Omnicell (Mountain View, CA, USA)
• Snap, Inc. (Santa Monica, CA, USA)
• Radio Flyer (Chicago, IL, USA)

AY18

• General Motors (Pontiac, MI, USA)
• Sonim Technologies (San Mateo, CA, USA)
• Laing O'Rourke (Australia)

AY17

• Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI, USA)
• Laing O'Rourke (Australia)
• Mercedes Benz (Menlo Park, CA, USA)
• Volkswagen (Belmont, CA, USA)

AY16

• The Coca-Cola Company (Atlanta, GA, USA)
• EPIImaging (Los Altos, CA, USA)
• Google (Mountain View, CA, USA)
• Higher Ground (Palo Alto, CA, USA)
• Intuitive Surgical (Sunnyvale, CA, USA)
• Mazda (Irvine, CA, USA)
• Volkswagen (Belmont, CA, USA)

Prior years

• Adept Technology, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
• Aerojet Electrosystems, Azusa, CA
• Aerovironment
• AFX-Autonomous Effects Inc., Redwood Shores, CA
• Apple Computer, Inc., Fremont, CA
• Applied Materials Corp., Santa Clara, CA
• AT&T-Information Systems, Holmdel, NJ
• Atlas Snow-Shoe Company, San Francisco, CA
• BAE SYSTEMS Controls, Johnson City, NY
• Baxter Healthcare Corporation, McGaw Park, IL
• Bloom Energy, Sunnyvale, CA
• BMW of North America, Inc., Westwood, NJ
• Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Seattle, WA
• Cisco
• Clorox Corporation, Oakland, CA
• Compaq Computer Corporation, (formerly Digital Equipment Corp.), Houston, TX
• ConAgra Foods, Omaha, NE
• DAIKIN Air-Conditioning & Environmental Laboratory, Ltd., Osaka, Japan
• DaimlerChrysler Corporation, Pontiac, MI
• DCI International, Newberg, OR
• Delphi Automotive Systems, Troy, MI
• Ebara Corporation, Tokyo, Japan
• ECM (Engine Control & Monitoring), Sunnyvale, CA
• Environmental Products Corporation, Newark, CA
• FMC Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
• Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI
• General Motors Corporation, Troy, MI
• Glacier Bay, Inc., Union City, CA
• Google
• Greenvolts
• Guidant Corporation (formerly known as Devices for Vascular Intervention), Redwood City, CA
• Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA
• Honda R&D Americas, Inc., Mountain View, CA
• Immersion Corporation, San Jose, CA
• Innovation Management Institute, Helsinki, Finland
• Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
• iRhythm Technologies
• Johnson & Johnson / ALZA Corporation, Mountain View, CA
• KLA-Tencor Corporation, San Jose, CA
• Lightguard Systems
• Litton Industries, Alameda, CA
• LockheedMartin Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA
• Mahindra Genze
• Max Machinery, Inc., Healdsburg, CA
• McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company (now The Boeing Company), Huntington Beach, CA
• MedtronicVascular, Santa Rosa, CA
• Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company (3M), Austin, TX and St. Paul, MN
• Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding, Tokyo, Japan
• NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
• NCR, Dundee, Scotland
• National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, CA
• Nektar Therapeutics, (formerly Inhale Therapeutic Systems), San Carlos, CA
• Nikon Precision Instruments, Belmont, CA
• Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan
• Nokia, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
• Novartis
• PACCAR Technical Center, Mt. Vernon, WA
• Palm, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
• Panasonic R&D Company of America, San Jose, CA
• PCH International Ltd., Cork, Ireland
• Peterbilt Motors, Denton, TX
• Playtex
• Pfizer Inc., New York, NY
• Philips Multimedia, Palo Alto, CA
• Portola Packaging, Inc., (formerly known as Cap Snap Co.), San Jose, CA
• Procter & Gamble Corporation, Cincinnati, OH
• Quantum Corporation, Milpitas, CA
• Raychem Corporation, Menlo Park, CA
• Raytheon Systems Company (formerly known as Hughes Aircraft Company), El Segundo, CA
• Redwood Microsystems, Menlo Park, CA
• Relievant Medsystems
• Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
• SAP Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
• Schlumberger, Sugar Land, TX
• Seiko Instruments, San Jose, CA
• Siemens Automotive, Auburn Hills, MI
• Simbol Mining
• Sperry Corporation, (now Unisys), St. Paul, MN
• Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc., Morgan Hill, CA
• Spectra-Physics Company, Mountain View, CA
• St. Jude Medical Center, Sunnyvale, CA
• Sun Microsystems, Inc., Mountain View, CA
• Target, Minneapolis, MN
• Toyota Motor Corporation, Aichi, Japan
• Unilever Research US, Edgewater, NJ
• Veterans Administration Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA
• Volkswagen of America, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
• Volvo Cars of North America, Camarillo, CA
• Warner-Lambert Co. Schick Wilkinson, Milford, CT
• Western Digital Corporation, San Jose, CA
• Western Sky Industries, Inc., San Jose, CA
• Weyerhaeuser Company, Seattle, WA
• Willow Garage, Menlo Park, CA
• Xerox Corporation, Palo Alto, CA

kburns 2/5/2026