1. David Wang is professor of architecture at the Interdisciplinary Design Institute of Washington State University Spokane. He teaches theory and research methods courses in the D.Des, MS.Arch, MLA, and MID programs. He is co-author of Architectural Research Methods (with L. Groat, Wiley, 2002), and editor of the IDRP: HYPERLINK .
2. Ali O. Ilhan is a Ph.D. student in sociology at Washington State University. He holds M.Sc and B.Sc degrees in industrial design from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey. His research interests include the sociology of design professionalism, the sociology of knowledge, and culture and creation of knowledge in the design disciplines.