Industrial Interview Form – Industrially Inspired

Soliciting New Ideas from Industry

The purpose of this form is to help your team solicit an idea for your TEAM Design Project and
determine the needs, constraints, and specifications of your idea with the aid of an industrial
contact. Your team must interview at least one contact in industry and submit the following
form with your Scope Form submission.

Definitions:
Needs: vague set of wishes from the customer

Constraints: limitations or restrictions that are set by: conditions, physics, chemistry, time,
money, government regulations, etc. which would make a product unviable

Specifications: Metrics or values that that measure how well a function performs

Interview:
Please fill in the following with your industrial contact’s information:

Name:
Position:
Company:
Industry:
E-mail:
Telephone:
Date(s) met with contact:

Briefly explain TEAM Design to your industrial contact, then ask the following:

1. What are some common problems in your industry that we could help solve?

2. What are some needs that your industry has for new products?

3. Are there other products like this in the market? How could we improve on these existing
products?

4. Can you identify at least 3 customers for these products, i.e., anyone that would use or buy
our products?

5. What are the constraints or specifications for these products?

6. Can we contact you in the future with other questions or for clarifications?
Examples of industry types for Question 3:

1) Oil and Gas

2) Construction
3) Chemical/Chemical Processing Industry
4) Government
5) Utilities (Electricity, Water, Natural Gas, etc.)
6) Water Purification (Desalination, Treatment, etc.)
7) Restaurant / Dining Industry
8) Consumer Products
9) Information Technology
10) Control, Robotics, and Manufacturing
11) Aeronautics and Space
12) Food Industry
13) Telecommunications
14) Entertainment
15) Software
16) Cybersecurity
17) Electronics
18) Architecture
19) Interior Design
20) Sustainability
21) 3D Printing
22) Logistics
23) Entrepreneur
24) Environment
25) Other – please put a few descriptive words