“Innovation and creativity are critical to the solution of many world problems. How do you develop these in students? The Product Realization Lab is one way.”
Peter FRANCIS
Managing Director, MIMCO LLC
"The Product Realization Lab is where my dreams became tangible. My abstract notions, concrete. Where my own hands brought life to the ideas that sprang from my young mind in that magical Stanford environment."
Chris FLINK
Partner, IDEO
“The Product Realization Lab is a hub at the junction of concept and reality, theory and practice. It’s at that critical junction where real innovation takes place.”
Lon VAN GELOVEN
Area Manager, Van Dyke Transmission Plant, FORD MOTOR COMPANY
“Dave Beach, Craig Milroy, and the teaching assistants lead students through the process of taking nothing but raw materials and making something tangible that started only in their imagination.”
Robin PETRAVIC
Owner/Managing Director, HEATH Ceramics
“The Product Realization Lab taught us that there is a power in physical prototypes. Not just as proof of the soundness of an idea, but the power to generate excitement about an idea, which is sometimes more important.”
Ed PEARCE
Director of Engineering, Tesla Motors
The Stanford Product Realization Lab provides the expertise, tools, and one-on-one mentoring to provide more than 1200 Stanford students each year with the skills to create tangible examples of their creative potential.