Design Degrees Online

This course aims to prepare students for future careers as professional designers and technologists in a variety of industrial and commercial environments. The course focuses on design and development for sustainability. Creativity is seen as the driving force for product development. However, whilst exploiting materials and processes for more challenging applications, the course will allow students to reflect on the constraints of diminishing resources and global pollution. Graduates are able to effectively meet the challenges of material use and their processing and integration into complex product solutions. It will also help students to develop analytical skills, IT skills and manufacturing techniques.

Program Objectives

Students learn to:
Communicate effectively with customers, supervisors, peers, and suppliers;
Demonstrate the ability to make suitable bouquets and floral arrangements for any occasion, in keeping with the customer’s request and established tradition, using available materials within cost constraints;
Offer appropriate information on the care and handling of various flowers and foliages, indoor plants, and other items available for sale at an employer’s establishment;
Acquire knowledge of most front-office duties associated with an employer’s establishment such as: correct handling of wire service orders, correct selling techniques, handling of charge card orders, and operation of a cash register;
Apply and understand public relations, advertising, and merchandising techniques.

The Interior Design Master’s program is primarily based on practice while also relying on theoretical, artistic and scientific knowledge which is continuously updated.

It aims at reinforcing analysis and synthesis ability and the pre-requisites for a critical mind to ensure professional awareness of culture and society.

Specific teaching in Interior Design is combined with lectures and projects allowing the additional acquisition of multidisciplinary skills to ensure integration in experts’ teams.

Teaching deals with fields related to the development of the interior architecture project, such as the sociocultural and aesthetic context, functionality, ergonomics, technical and environmental constraints.

Within the project workshop, topics such as habitat, work place, recreational and cultural environment, space, lighting, objects, and furniture are dealt with; the means of representation and communication are developed.

After training, the student will be able to understand the constraints inherent to a project to collect relevant data (market research, materials, manufacturing processes); to participate in developing the concept and product to perform presentation drawings (made) to develop models, models, prototypes and fixtures, build and run the technical drawings and specifications for design (drawings of assemblies, subassemblies, details). The product design is to determine not only the shape of objects produced by industry, but also their structure.

Admission level
Second Secondary CAP successfully or in a similar field.

Duration of training
2 years

The BTS design space is designed to prepare students to manage an initial order specifying the needs and constraints, to participate in the design and implementation of a project for the landscaping …”. It trains designers area capable of intervening in different business areas ranging from architectural and urban space in the urban landscape, through the architectural heritage, ephemeral spaces, furniture … The designer operates in fact in the design and implementation planning of public spaces, private, events, groups, and individuals taking into account the initial application, needs and constraints.

Admission level
Undergraduate degree in construction or a similar field

Duration of training
2 years

Watercolour Painting

This offers an opportunity for self-development without the constraints of studying for an award.

The class enables you to explore and become proficient in the skills of watercolour painting, with particular reference to landscape subjects. It is suited to the needs of beginners and those with more experience.
Course Content

All aspects are covered and tuition is provided in a wide variety of approaches to the medium, with an emphasis on traditional methods. You will be encourages to not only produce finished pieces of work but also to experience with differing approaches and the use of sketch-books. Reference is made to the work of artists and you are expected to visit galleries and exhibitions. The emphasis is on the enjoyment of learning how to paint in water colours in the company of others.
Application and Enrolment

Applicants should contact the Secretary at Bournville. Enrolment takes place in September in Bournville.

This offers an opportunity for self-development without the constraints of studying for an award.

The class enables you to explore your particular interest and build on your current skills. Tuition and support is provided in a wide variety of approaches to painting and drawing, both traditional and contemporary. You will be encouraged, not only to produce finished pieces of work, but to also experiment with differing approaches and explore the use of sketch-books. Reference is made to the work of artists and you are expected to visit galleries and exhibitions. The emphasis is on the enjoyment of developing as an artist in the company of others.

Introduction

This module considers the technical aspects of applying signal integrity requirements and constraints during the design phase of a product’s development. It covers high speed digital signals and power supply planes and focuses on the design of PCB interconnects. Simulation techniques are employed extensively through the use of SigXplorer and Power Integrity tools from the Cadence PCB Design Suite. The module builds on the topics introduced in module AMI4814 Signal Integrity and EMC.
Further Course Details

Signal Integrity is a key issue in the design of electronic based products and in particular printed circuit boards (PCBs). As digital circuits operate at higher and higher clock speeds signal integrity becomes increasingly important. The PCB and interconnects in general can dramatically alter the performance of circuits and systems and should be considered as a major component that impacts on the product design activity at an early stage.

After completing this module you will be able to design high speed PCB interconnects and simulate their performance using state of the art PCB design software.

The module makes extensive use of the signal integrity tools in Cadence PCB design software suite.

Stanford’s Design program dates from 1958 when Professor John Arnold, formerly of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, first proposed the radical concept that design engineering should be human-centered. The Joint Program in Design (JPD) carries this concept forward and is a collaborative offering of the Design Group of the Mechanical Engineering Department in the School of Engineering and the Department of Art and Art History in the College of Humanities and Sciences. Over the years, it has graduated many creative designers, engineers, and others who have gone on to practice this unique perspective on design and design thinking.

Design at Stanford concerns itself with conceiving and designing products, services and experiences for the benefit of society. This process requires the balanced resolution of constraints arising from aesthetic, human, technical, and business concerns. A designer uses his or her creativity, imagination, and technical knowledge to satisfy these requirements and create products that satisfy human needs.

The Information Design Program at The Sage Colleges is an interdisciplinary program that combines the strengths of Communications, Art, Business, and Computer Science to enable and empower students to express themselves - AND to compete in converged-media communication job fields that are developing even faster than Internet-speed.

Information Design is based on the concept of the griot, the storyteller entrusted with the most crucial task of ensuring accurate conveying of one group’s most important information to another. ID revisits the griot concept, producing a graduate who exemplifies the skills of the storyteller, and adds to these skills the ability to convey information using interactive, audio, video, and emerging media technologies to supplement more traditional technologies.

Because the ID program emphasizes both the conceptual and the technological, the graduate of this program is able to map his or her experience and skills onto any emerging technology platform. The graduate is able to tell a better story - choosing and using the appropriate tools in the appropriate way, to tell that story. Perhaps the story will involve advertising or marketing related goals, perhaps it will be an interactive art exhibit for a museum, or physical computing, or videography, or game design, or information architecture, or…

The Information Design graduate will be prepared to see beyond the constraints of what is, and look towards how communication should be approached - telling a better story in a new way.