Some young alums are busy inventing everyday consumer products.
Many ideas grow out of the engineering school's product design program, where master's students are required to come up with a product as part of their final thesis. Like most roller-hockey players, Tony Hu, MS '92, was dissatisfied with the way typical street pucks tended to skitter, bounce and roll when they hit a bump on the pavement. But as a graduate of Stanford's product design program, he was in a position to do something about the problem. How about a wetsuit for his cellular phone. Marko Babic, '89, and his Santa Monica company, GoNeo, teamed up with wetsuit maker Body Glove to create a stylish holder for portable phones and beepers.