Industrial Design

Design Products

Program graduates will:
1- research, synthesize, define, ideate, design, refine, and validate mass-produced products.
2- recognize and apply contemporary manufacturing methods and materials to product design proposals.
3- organize and present evidence-based research, meaningful product concepts, and final design proposals, compellingly and convincingly.

Software Technology

Program graduates will:
1- Use computer-aided design software to construct, evaluate, and design three-dimensional product forms and assemblies.
2- Use multiple two-dimensional computer-aided design software tools to organize and design a variety of communication artifacts.

Contemporary Design History

Program graduates will:
1- Identify and examine the fundamental trends of contemporary design history.
2- Investigate, summarize, and present about the artifacts and design principles of notable historical designers.

Design Business Practices

Program graduates will:
1- review, examine, and discuss the fundamental elements of design-related business activities.

Structured Creativity

Program graduates will:
1- Investigate and synthesize components of marketing, sales, engineering, manufacturing, servicing, and ecological needs and responsibilities and reconcile them with identified user desires and values.
2- Define product-related problems, variables, and requirements; conceptualize and evaluate alternatives; and test and refine solutions.

Communication

Program graduates will:
1- Practice, compose, and explain product and process concepts and requirements to current and future designers, colleagues, clients, and employers.
2- create both verbal and written communications using both low and high fidelity two, and three-dimensional tools and methods.

Human-Centered

Human-Centered
Program graduates will:
1- Review, employ, examine, and assess principles of human psychology, human factors, and digital user interface while designing products and services.

Enriching Experiences

Program graduates have the option to:
1- Discover and participate in international programs that enrich individual cultural experiences and increase design exposure.
2- Evaluate and participate in undergraduate research endeavors.
3- Investigate and participate in courses that relate to or inform industrial design such as engineering, business, marketing, art, art history, entrepreneurship, ethnography, graphic design, photography, and so on.

Prototyping Labs

Program graduates will:
1- Design, invent, create, and construct both digital and physical artifacts in facilities appropriate for such activities.
2- Manipulate wood, polymers, metals to develop physical models.
3- Explore, build, design, and render digital models.

Internships

Program graduates will:
1- Investigate, evaluate, and arrange for one or more internship experiences.

Team Projects

Program graduates will:
1- Practice team-based product development activities within the design program.
2- Have the opportunity to create and operate an interdisciplinary team project either through self-generated projects or elective courses.