BYU Wins Second Straight Top Industrial Design Student Award

A national award granted to a Brigham Young University design student represents a two-year winning streak for BYU's industrial design program.

Each year, the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) honors the top two undergraduates in the field.

This year Ke "Nico" Li, of Guangzhou, China, received one of the two 2008 IDSA undergraduate scholarships.

"Clearly, the work from BYU has been seen as exemplary, and that says something good for the program," said Larry Hoffer, IDSA's deputy executive director and COO.

"They were chosen from undergraduate design students from across the country.

They were the best of the best."

Paul Skaggs, a BYU industrial design professor, agrees that recently BYU's design program has become more recognized.