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Dr. Rob Stone is Professor in the Interdisciplinary Engineering Department at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T, MUST, MST or whatever you feel like calling it), formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla (fanciful reasons for the name change). He joined UMR as a faculty member in January 1998 after completing his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Stone's research interests are design theory and methodology, specifically product architectures, functional representations and automated conceptual design techniques. He has received multiple awards related to his research in product design and has authored a chapter on product architecture in a new product design text (Otto and Wood, 2001) and a chapter on reverse engineering (Kutz (ed.), 2007). He was Director of the interdisciplinary Student Design and Experiential Learning Center (SDELC) from January 2004-June 2008 where he oversaw the activities of ten design competition and service teams and guided the Center's new engineering design and experiential learning initiative. Stone spent the 2006-07 academic year as a Distinguished Visiting Professor position in the Department of Engineering Mechanics at the US Air Force Academy. Prior to initiating his graduate work, Dr. Stone worked in the Missions Operation Directorate of NASA-Johnson Space Center as a Space Shuttle Flight Controller.