Program Description
- STEM designated program
Equips students to work with product users and other stakeholders to create attractive, meaningful and usable products and systems. The program prepares students to respond thoughtfully and creatively to challenges and opportunities presented by technological advances, social development and cultural change. The strengths of the program are its interdisciplinary culture, the broad and deep expertise of the faculty, collaboration with industry, and engagement with the design community. Insights and unique collaborative project opportunities offer themselves to design students on a campus that hosts programs in related and relevant professions. Studio life is characterized by work dynamics found in design consultancies, corporate design departments, and entrepreneurial ventures.
Learning Goals/Outcomes
- To understand design as a human-centered inquiry informed by the liberal arts, the fine arts, business, engineering, and the sciences.
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To evolve the students’ understanding of their own professional development in the context of local, national and global issues.
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To nurture critical thinking skills in which the intuitive, the analytical and the pragmatic elements of the design process are supported.
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To prepare students for interdisciplinary collaborations that embrace, synthesize and unify issues for the benefit of all stakeholders in the product innovation process.
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To engage the discourse on the industrial design profession’s practice, history and current development.
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To impart the skillset required to produce professional deliverables and manage innovation processes effectively
Curriculum: 4 Years, 127-129 Credits
| First Year | Credits | |
|---|---|---|
| FYS 100 | Pathways Seminar | 1 |
| WRIT 101 | Writing Sem I: Written Comm. | 3 |
| MATH 1XX | Mathematics Placeholder | 3-4 |
| AVIS 101 | American Visions | 3 |
| INDD 101 | Design 1 for Industrial Design | 4 |
| INDD 102 | Design 2: Industrial Design | 4 |
| INDD 106 | Materials & Processes Fab | 3 |
| INDD 206 | CAD I for Industrial Design | 3 |
| INDD 107 | Vis for Industrial Design I | 3 |
| INDD 108 | Vis for Industrial Design II | 3 |
| PHYC 201 | Physics I | 3 |
| Credits | 33-34 | |
| Second Year | ||
| ETHC 1XX | Ethics Course Placeholder | 3 |
| WRIT 201 | Writing Seminar II:Multi Comm | 3 |
| GDIV 1XX | Global Diversity Placeholder | 3 |
| INDD 201 | Design 3: Industrial Design | 4 |
| INDD 202 | Design 4: Industrial Design | 4 |
| INDD 207 | Mats & Proc: Manufacturing | 3 |
| DECF 102 | Finding & Shaping Opportunity | 3 |
| ARTH 103 | A Survey of the History of Art | 3 |
| INDD 206 | CAD I for Industrial Design | 3 |
| INDD 324 | History of Design & Comm | 3 |
| Credits | 32 | |
| Third Year | ||
| GCIT 2XX | Global Citizenship Placeholder | 3 |
| ADIV 2XX | American Diversity Placeholder | 3 |
| CGIS 300 | Contemporary Global Issues | 3 |
| DECS 2XX | DECSYS Placeholder | 3 |
| DECM 300 | Research Methods | 3 |
| INDD 301 | Design 5: Industrial Design | 4 |
| General Elective | 3 | |
| INDD 210 | Ergonomic Studies | 3 |
| INDD 302 | Design 6: Industrial Design | 6 |
| INDD 304 | Design History/Theory | 3 |
| Credits | 34 | |
| Fourth Year | ||
| General Electives | 3 | |
| PHIL 499 | Philosophies of the Good Life | 3 |
| Design Electives for Exploration or Concentration | 9 | |
| INDD 401 | Design 7: Industrial Design | 6 |
| INDD 402 | Design 8: ID Capstone | 6 |
| Art/Design History/Theory Elective | 3 | |
| Credits | 30 | |
| Total Credits | 129-130 | |