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Donald Coates

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Biography

Donald Coates, Ph.D., P.E. taught courses on innovation, energy power and industrial controls at Kent State University’s College of Aeronautics and Engineering prior to his retirement from full time teaching in 2011 as a tenured Assistant Professor. He is actively teaching courses on innovation and consulting on patent litigation. He was instrumental in establishing an interdisciplinary minor in innovation in the College of Aeronautics and Engineering, a minor and major in entrepreneurship in the College of Business, and developing one of the first on-line TRIZ courses in the USA. Previously he was Vice President of Engineering at the Speed Queen Division of Raytheon, Director of Corporate Primary Development and Director of Dishwasher Engineering at the Frigidaire Company of AB Electrolux,  Director of Research for the Hoover Company of the Maytag Corporation and Manager of Whirlpool Automatic Washers at the Whirlpool Corporation. He received a Ph.D. and MSME from Purdue University and a BSME from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He also received the Distinguished Engineering Alumnus and Outstanding Mechanical Engineer awards from Purdue University. He holds 38 US and international patents with another 8 pending and has authored eighteen publications including a contributing author to the book Global Innovation Science Handbook by McGraw Hill. He is member of the American Society of Quality, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honorary, and the VP of the nonprofit Altshuller Institute for the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving.

Education

Ph.D. & MSME Purdue University, BSME State Univ. of New York at Buffalo

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  • Chapter 28 Global Innovation Science Handbook

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New Paradigm Innovations LLC

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  • Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Purdue
  • Outstanding Mechanical Engineer Purdue
  • Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honorary)
  • Tenure Kent State
  • 21 US Patents
  • 17 International Patents
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