Simrun Sethi

Simrun Sethi

Teaching Assistant Professor of Business Administration

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Educational Background

  • Master in Business Design, Domus Academy, 2007
  • Diploma in, Business Management, SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), 2001
  • Interior Design, SNDT University, 1989

Positions Held

  • Teaching Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2020 to present
  • Lecturer of Business Administration, Business Administration, University of Illinois, 2017 to present
  • Lecturer of Industrial Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017 to present
  • Business Design Manager, Future Factory, 2014-2016
  • Associate Professor, Sushant School of Design, Ansal University, 2013-2018
  • Project Manager, Rajeev Sethi Scenographer, 2012
  • Business Design Consultant, Simrun S Sethi, 2011-2013
  • Consultant, SSETHI Strategic Business Design Consultant, 2008-2011
  • Founder, Jolly Design, 1996-2005
  • Head of Interior, Circus Design Studio, 1989-2005

Recent Publications

Other Publications

Conference Proceedings

  • Sethi, S., & Sethi, S. Forthcoming. Narrative as a Vehicle for Learning. Fourteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices.
  • Sethi, S. (2022). Interdisciplinary Learning - Tomorrow’s Executive as Creative Problem Solvers. Proceedings of the 3rd AHFE International Conference on Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship ( vol. 31,). 13th AHFE International Conference (2022: Springer.  link >
  • Sanabria-Véaz , K., Sethi, S., Haran, V., & Switzky, R. (2021). Behavioral Barriers to Adoption of the Safer Illinois App: A Human-Centered Approach. Advances in Industrial Design. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ( vol. 260, pp. 201-209). AHFE 2021: Springer.  link >
  • Sethi, S., & Sethi, S. (2020). Personal Experience in Concept Generation of New Products. ( vol. 1218, pp. 169-174). Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, AHFE 2020, Cham: Springer.  link >
  • Sethi, S., & Sethi, S. (2020). Personal Experience in Concept Generation of New Products, Advances in Creativity, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Communication of Design. ( vol. 1218, pp. 169 -174). AHFE 2020: International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, Switzerland AG: Springer Nature.  link >

Presentations

  • Sethi, S. (2022). Interdisciplinary Learning: Tomorrow’s Executive as Creative Problem Solvers. Applied Human Factor and Ergonomics (AHFE) 2022.
  • Sethi, S., Sanabria-Véaz, K., Haran, V., & Switzky, R. (2021). Behavioral Barriers to Adoption of the Safer Illinois App: A Human-Centered Approach. AHFE2021.
  • Sethi, S., & Sethi, S. (2020). Narrative as a Vehicle for Learning” Fourteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices. Fourteenth International Conference on Design Principles & Practices.

Honors and Awards

  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 2021, UIUC, 2018 to present
  • List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent (Spring and Fall 2022, Spring 2023), University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, 2022-2023

Grants

  • Specialized Faculty Grant, FAA, 2021 - 2022, FAA, 2021 to present
  • Specialized Faculty Grant, FAA, 2020 - 2021, FAA, 2020 to present

Service

  • Mentor, Mannequins Comic Strip, 2022-2022

Current Courses

  • New Product Development (BADM 329) Exposes student to business and marketing decisions in the context of new product development and marketing. Helps students learn how to use state-of-the-art management techniques to identify markets, develop new product ideas, measure customer benefits, and design profitable new products.