About Us

Design & Development Today is the design engineering professional’s resource for breaking news, emerging technologies and market insights.

D&DT’s decades of experience in the engineering and manufacturing sectors provides critical perspective into the stories affecting the industry and the new products helping engineers improve costs and time-to-market.

In addition to DesignDevelopmentToday.com, the publication features daily e-newsletters and a daily web series.

D&DT is led by President Tom Lynch, Editorial Director David Mantey, Editor Ben Munson, Associate Editor Devon Verbsky and Director of Multimedia Eric Sorensen.

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Contributions 

We're happy to accept and review potential contributions. Contributions are welcome from anyone with expertise or insight into the industry.  

For more information, contact [email protected].  

Editorial Guidelines 

The following Contributor Guidelines should be considered when submitting articles for review. 

  • Submissions should be no more than 1,000 words. 
  • Each submission should include the author name, title and affiliation.
  • Please include a headshot of the author.
  • Exclusive pieces will be given priority, so please let us know if your article has previously been published elsewhere.
  • Submissions should be written with an industry-wide perspective and not be promotional for any one product or company. Any promotional language will be edited.
  • We reserve the right to edit the piece as we see fit, but we’re also happy to pass on a final draft to the author before it appears on the site.
  • Because we publish new content every day, there’s no hard deadline for submission. However, we do reserve the right to publish the piece in accordance with our production cycle.

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