Virginia Tech, Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design, 8 Semester(s)

Industrial design services are often provided within the context of cooperative working relationships with other members of a development group.

Typical groups include management, marketing, engineering and manufacturing specialists.

The industrial designer expresses concepts that embody all relevant design criteria determined by the group.

The focus of the first year in the Foundation Program is involved with basic elements of design, addressed visually, conceptually, and haptically.

Studies are undertaken in two and three dimensions using various materials and tools.

Inquiries are focused on the process of design, discovering, through experiment, methods of working that develop aesthetic judgment and means of self-evaluation.

All architecture, industrial design, interior design, and landscape architecture majors study together for the first year.

Beginning in the second year, studies focus on the profession of industrial design.

As described by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA): Industrial D... Read more

Industrial design services are often provided within the context of cooperative working relationships with other members of a development group.

Typical groups include management, marketing, engineering and manufacturing specialists.

The industrial designer expresses concepts that embody all relevant design criteria determined by the group.

The focus of the first year in the Foundation Program is involved with basic elements of design, addressed visually, conceptually, and haptically.

Studies are undertaken in two and three dimensions using various materials and tools.

Inquiries are focused on the process of design, discovering, through experiment, methods of working that develop aesthetic judgment and means of self-evaluation.

All architecture, industrial design, interior design, and landscape architecture majors study together for the first year.

Beginning in the second year, studies focus on the profession of industrial design.

As described by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA): Industrial Design (ID) is the professional service of creating and developing concepts and specifications that optimize the function, value and appearance of products and systems for the mutual benefit of both user and manufacturer.

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