Course overview
This course equips students with practical industrial design skills and knowledge for workplace settings. Through active participation, observation, reflection, and WIL experience, students strengthen their discipline-specific learning. By course completion, students will have gained core design concepts, ethical awareness, problem-solving skills, and effective communication abilities. The course aligns with program goals related to broad knowledge, ethical responsibility, synthesis, communication, initiative, and self-reflection.
Course learning outcomes
- Critically analyse aesthetic contexts within industrial design projects, considering cultural influences and ethical implications
- Applying core design knowledge, students analyse innovative solutions that balance aesthetics, ergonomics, and sustainability in their WIL experience
- Through synthesis, students analyse developing sustainable design solutions, considering environmental impact and material choices in their WIL experience
- Effective communication of design and professional experience in WIL is demonstrated through presentations and visual communication
- Students exhibit initiative and judgment in planning, problem-solving, and decision-making within professional practice
- Reflecting ethically, students recognise and analyse their future professional responsibilities and accountability in diverse collaborative roles