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The Product Design program trains designers to use their creativity, design thinking, and design process to bring new ideas, products, experiences, and value to companies, communities, and people. The Product Design’s Learning Outcomes are student-centered that include skills, abilities, knowledge, and values. 

Students majoring in Product Design learn a wide range of hand skills and processes using soft and hard materials, digital design skills in 2-D graphics, and 3-D modeling for rapid prototyping. Industry professionals guide students in achieving the Program Learning Outcomes, developing their creative process, researching user experience, and applying multidisciplinary 2-D and 3-D design skills to create well-conceived and executed objects and products that service a human need. The program assists each student in developing personal career pathways to success.

Product Design Work

 

Program Learning Outcomes

Students will:

  • Use the Product Design and Development Process, as a means to manage the development of an idea from concept through to production.
  • Employ research and analysis methodologies as it pertains to the product design process, meaning, and user experience.
  • Apply creative process techniques in synthesizing information, problem-solving and critical thinking.
  • Demonstrate and employ hand drawing and drafting principles to convey concepts.
  • Use basic fabrication methods to build prototype models for hard-goods and soft-goods and packaging.
  • Demonstrate, apply, explain, and recognize basic engineering, mechanical, and technical principles.
  • Demonstrate, apply, explain, and recognize basic family of materials used in soft-goods and hard-goods, including sustainable materials and manufacturing processes.

 

Assessment Measures

Student learning in Product Design courses is assessed using level-appropriate rubrics and evaluations of presentations, projects, reflections, exhibitions, portfolios, exit vitae interviews and senior exhibition projects. Collectively these measures allow us to determine the level and quality of education attained by our students.