Brown-RISD Master of Arts in Design Engineering

Bennett Graff received a bachelor's in industrial design from Brigham Young University. As a Crocker Innovation Fellow, he worked with other fellows to design a food preservation device to reduce food waste in the food service industry. Through Bench to Bedside at the University of Utah he designed a low-cost protective device for neurosurgery patients in low- and middle-income countries, which he submitted for a provisional patent. He received a NASA Space Grant Fellowship to independently perform research and develop restraint and mobility solutions for work on space stations.  At Overair in Santa Ana, he worked on designing eVTOL flight deck concepts. He designed innovative social impact events (for clients such as Google, Spotify, Kraft-Heinz, and NASDAQ) as a means for employee and community engagement in his work at Generus. Bennett is also a fine art painter whose work has been exhibited in museums and commissioned for private collections across the country. Bennett grew up in Sutton, MA, which inspired his love of the natural world and shaped his design approach.