Engineering Alumnus Plays Key Role at Apple

When Apple product designers began thinking about a new kind of mobile phone, they started with the phones they had. And they didn't like what they saw. “We all hated our phones,” said Tony Blevins, a 1989 industrial engineering graduate of the College who is a core member of Apple's iPhone team. “The genesis of the iPhone was that simple. We said 'We think we can do much better.’” So they designed the iPhone, which hit stores last year to rapturous praise from critics and consumers. Within six months, the company had sold four million iPhones. Read more.