{"id":606,"date":"2016-02-08T10:19:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T10:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/?p=606"},"modified":"2016-02-08T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T10:40:00","slug":"teamwork-dyson-with-ben-russi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/2016\/02\/08\/teamwork-dyson-with-ben-russi\/","title":{"rendered":"Teamwork @ Dyson with Ben Russi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since graduating with a first class degree in Product Design from Teesside University in 2012, Ben Russi has gone from strength to strength.\u00a0 After completing a Master\u2019s degree in Multidisciplinary Design Innovation and a 6-month internship, Ben snapped up an opportunity to work as part of the design engineering team at Dyson.\u00a0 He returned to Teesside on Friday 15<sup>th<\/sup> January to inspire our product design students, offering an insight into the world of work for a graduate product designer.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018Working at Dyson offers a lot of creative freedom. Within the first few weeks, I learnt a lot and the expectations of me where high. Very little time was wasted and quite rapidly, I was contributing to projects\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Each year Dyson gives them an Engineering challenge.\u00a0 You can see last year\u2019s challenge by clicking the image below and read more about it on twitter @ #ChallengeDyson:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aj-PDodpgfc\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-607\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-607\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2016\/02\/Dyson-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Dyson\" width=\"360\" height=\"209\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Click the image above to see the Dyson Challenge<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Communication and cooperation form the basis of any business, but at Dyson, it is brought to the forefront.<\/p>\n<p>Ben had some wise words for students about what he learned while studying his Bachelors and Masters degrees:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2018The Best way to learn about problems and possible solutions is to get out of the studio speak to people and research the problem. Always test your concepts and learn from each one. Inspiration is rarely found sitting at a drawing board.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With the beginning of the third year\u2019s major project, Ben had one final piece of advice for our final year students.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cOrganise your time from day one, and put in as much time as early as you can.\u00a0 Any time you miss now will have to be made up further down the line.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether delving into a design career or continuing with further study, determination and perseverance are key.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about Bens\u2019 early experiences at Dyson <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/2014\/02\/19\/ben-cleans-up-at-dyson\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since graduating with a first class degree in Product Design from Teesside University in 2012, Ben Russi has gone from strength to strength.\u00a0 After completing a Master\u2019s degree in Multidisciplinary Design Innovation and a 6-month internship, Ben snapped up an opportunity to work as part of the design engineering team at Dyson.\u00a0 He returned to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/2016\/02\/08\/teamwork-dyson-with-ben-russi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Teamwork @ Dyson with Ben Russi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,6,39,29],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/files\/2016\/02\/Dyson.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fi1x-9M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tees.ac.uk\/teesmade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}