Stephen C. Jacobsen

May God bless you and your family in this time of sorrow.

Stephen was always a joy to work with.

When Steve passed away I was unaware of it. When I was at the U of U in the early 70’s and a student, I had him for some class I think, and he wanted to start the Projects and Design Lab, so I signed up to be in it along with a few others. That was the start that turned into full time employment and lasted my whole working life. I think back to that time and I saw no real way forward in life, I didn’t really think I would be able to get a job. But there it was. I remember building the...

Dr. Steve Jacobsen wanted to get rid of wheelchairs with artificial limbs and gyros to give a paraplegic or even quadraplegic a walking gait. I went to see him in 1976, at age 22, noting on his door at the UofU was a cartoon decrying corporate welfare from the feds on any pretext. I had created the first van transport of "shut-ins" in wheelchairs requiring some inventiveness, but was nothing compared to his modular artificial arms with circular ladders turned by electric rotors controlled by...

Steve was a joy to works with ! RIP.

SCJ - Steve Jacobsen is one of the man I was very lucky to have work for a period of a decade. He always challenges me to create and think outside the box. We worked together in the meso/micro/nano planar and non-planar technology and there was a lots of free drawing on white paper.

I worked very closely with Steve for 20 years. He was a true genius as well as a fun guy. God bless him and hold him safe until I can get there and tell him what I really think of him!

Love you Steve, and your wonderful family.

Dr. Stephen C. Jacobsen was the embodiment of an integrator. He lived to design. He spread the message of design and of designers with missionary zeal as a teacher, researcher and entrepreneur. To him, most activities were a subset of design. He was constantly looking for ways to improve the design of existing things -- he looked at things not as they were, but as they could become. His designs were refreshingly simple and novel, while embracing several disciplines, including mechanics,...