# Lauren Duderstadt

> Product Design Engineer at Crunch Labs

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/laurenduderstadt

I am a multidisciplinary designer who specializes in identifying, investigating, and solving complex problems across all industries by utilizing my industrial design and mechanical engineering background. 

My industrial design skills allow for effective problem identification through rigorous research methods including user research, needfinding, and customer journey mapping as well as generating preliminary design visualizations and solutions through sketch ideation, rapid prototyping, digital rendering, and CMF design. My engineering background keeps me grounded to execute practical design solutions within given design constraints with my expertise in manufacturing methods (DFMA), CAD, tolerancing, material properties, and mechanism design. 

I excel at the intersection point between designers and engineers by facilitating a more wholistic, streamlined, and communicative design process across those disciplinary teams. I love hands on building, tinkering, and user testing to gain an understanding of the physical form of a designed product and feasibility of product production.


CliftonStrengths Top 5: Learner, Strategic, Achiever, Individualization, Ideation

## Work Experience
### Product Design Engineer @ CrunchLabs
Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Product Design Engineer & Industrial Designer @ Devise Designs, LLC
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Ackworth, Georgia
-Product design engineering & industrial design contractor role in projects across varying timelines, industries, teams, materials, and production levels.

### Product Design Engineering Intern @ Devise Designs, LLC
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Ackworth, Georgia
-Post Graduate internship with Devise Designs to learn CNC manufacturing and SLA printing while assisting on user interface design and physical prototyping of various company projects

### Design Strategy Intern @ Orange Sparkle Ball, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Executed 7 employee needfinding interviews with Engineering and Production teams to identify 17 unique design opportunities to increase delivery robot interior usability
- Collaborated on a 5 person team for a 3 week, onsite robot interior redesign sprint involving rapid concept ideation, high fidelity physical prototyping, and bot visual language refinement
-Designed two user workflow maps for a start-up interested in showing new customers the unique product application and standard use case

### Teaching Assistant for Pre College Georgia Tech Industrial Design Summer Camp @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
-Taught instructional 30 minute lesson to over 40 campers on how to use Figma wireframing capabilities for their products and product presentations at the end of the camp and created a short 15 minute design activity to help campers get hands on experience with the Figma capabilities
- Advised campers on their two week long design projects to aid in successful completion
- Managed and facilitated cooperation in 12 different student team dynamics

### Mechanical Engineering Intern @ Carnegie Robotics LLC
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
- Drafted over a dozen tools for the production team to ensure consistent assembly, alignment, and torque specifications of a robotic mast arm, torque multiplier, as well as other robotic parts
- Designed a structural camera housing, accommodating previous PCB and heat sink designs, to prevent large fluctuations of a dual lens camera disparity operating in high stress conditions

### Mechanical Engineering Intern @ Carnegie Robotics LLC
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
- Managed updating assemblies, tool kits, and part changes across Solidworks PDM, Costpoint, and Excel for an autonomous mine detection robot with over 300 parts


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Bachelor's degree in Industrial and Product Design
Georgia Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lauren-duderstadt
- Portfolio: https://lduderstadt.myportfolio.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-13