Brian Hilton

Brian is the senior research engineer for Sustainable Design at Rochester Institute of Technology, Golisano Institute for Sustainability. He has more than 25 years of industrial product design and development experience spanning from clean sheet concept-inception through fully-automated, high-speed production at domestic and international assembly plants; and holds 58 international patents (including 29 U.S. patents). He currently provides expertise and management on industrial and government sponsored research projects focused on improving the product life cycle, sustainable design, manufacturing, remanufacturing, and technology readiness.