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The Designer, also known as Industrial Designer, is a professional who works at different levels of human activity, designing systems to images or objects. The course of Industrial Design (Design) offered by the Universidade São Judas was and is fully updated with many new features. The most important is the strong commitment to the process of improvement and transformation of the professional look of the future. For this, more than half the working hours of the course is devoted to the many activities of Project, always related to areas such as History of Design, Laboratory of Ideas, Reading the Shape, Photography Workshop and Tools. Thus, the first-fourth year of the course, the main concepts of design are applied in both the creation of images as in the objects. In total, over three thousand hours of tuition with much debate and interaction, making the year the project marked an act of joy and pleasure, and a commitment to ethics and social responsibility.

The course is structured to support you through a journey from the challenges of interdisciplinary and multicultural interaction in the seminars and open discussions of Unit 1 to the identification and realisation of your own MA research project in Unit 3. You will be exposed to questions which are designed to stretch and develop your ability to identify and solve beyond the comfort zone of tradition.

While the course promotes future thinking, it is concerned with supporting a wide variety of student research interests and typically enables students to define and research what is personally important to them. Artefacts act as an illustrated hypothesis and are constructed using your existing practical skills or those of others on the course or in your own working environment outside college, enabling those of you without a background in practical design to engage in, understand and use the creative process as part of research.

Unit 1
The point of departure, Unit One, ‘Feeding the Imagination’, emphasises collaborative and multidisciplinary learning and explores the relationship between locating sources of useful data* and applying the information to define and achieve a given end. The Unit is designed to broaden and deepen your understanding of the nature, practice and potential of research and provides you with research tools that will enable you to survive and maximise the discovery and reorientation potential of the journey.
During this Unit of the course you travel together in teams, working together to match, challenge and extend your individual and collective abilities to source, analyse and articulate a position.
The Unit begins with the distribution of a range of indicative reading and/or viewing materials, that relate to the theory and practice of management, marketing, branding, social, cultural and technical contexts and analytical technique, framed by specific or general questions. It concludes with the assessment of a team presentation based on the completion of a research task. This task requires you to locate and invite speakers to contribute to the Wednesday evening Visiting Speaker programme, facilitate a discussion and then prepare and lead a related session the following week offering an alternative or opposite view to your invited speaker’s presentation. This programme runs throughout the Unit, and underpins your learning, offering an opportunity for you to raise questions to inform your research.
* Data is used to mean information, often in the form of both facts and figures obtained from experiments or surveys, used as a basis for making calculations or drawing conclusions

Unit 2
Unit Two, ‘Applying the Imagination’, emphasises diagnostic and negotiated learning. It works in synergy with Unit One and has two priorities: applying your imagination and enabling you to discover more about your personal agendas. Through a series of short projects based on contemporary reality that enable you to develop external relationships with business/cultural groupings/professional organisations, the Unit encourages you to apply your research skills to identify and evolve a creative resolution to a business and /or social opportunity.

The projects develop three key themes:
mixing and contrasting cultural and professional differences

challenging conventional wisdom and practises in project management and presentation

extending your conceptual and theoretical landscape by presenting you with new things to think about and new ways of thinking about what youalready know.

You work collectively in teams to evolve a conceptual response to a scenario of your own choosing, informed by criteria revealed in the project brief, but verify your personal potential individually and in pairs. Your personal agendas are questioned and evolved, enabling you to step outside of your own experience and confirm your contemporary passions, priorities, skills set and portfolio strengths and weaknesses. Outcomes are considered at a one-day symposium, in which you have the opportunity to both make an oral presentation and be involved in open-debate.

Unit 3
The final stage of the journey, Unit Three: ‘Testing the Imagination’, emphasises independent learning and takes on the metaphor of a personal odyssey. It is concerned with facilitating, extending and evaluating your ability to manage and achieve a major independent project, based on your personal research interests and learning agenda. Having identified personal aspirations, motivations and methodologies, you draw a route map of the terrain you intend to investigate and potentially consolidate. You are given freedom to identify your choice of project against a set of criteria that stress the need for evidence of the clarification of motive, method and anticipated outcomes. You keep a diary that informs, charts and analyses this part of your journey, and which contributes to your assessment evidence and exhibition at the end of the Unit. While this final stage of the journey is about independent goals, the culture of the course is designed to be supportive with group and individual tutorials happening on a regular basis.

Painting in contemporary media and societal context. Focus figurative painting. Design and techniques of image to canvas to wall painting techniques in interaction with other artistic techniques (photography, video, as part of various control strategies.

Development of a modern redefinition of Applied Arts / Applied Arts and a personal profession through participatory approach, thematic tasks and transdisciplinary approaches, and partnerships with the private sector.

Mastery of practical skills and knowledge for professional practice, such as costing, preparation of portfolios, texts, presentations.

The term ‘design’ is ambiguous and has many different interpretations. For some, it conceals a mixture of Bauhaus, Hollywood and rusty iron; for others, a combination of luxury and lifestyle. For the Muthesius Academy, it is more than just a “beautiful form”.

Similar to our neighbours in Copenhagen, the Danish Design Council, design for us means turning a very particular purpose into a physical form. This involves the consideration of production, construction, form, beauty and environment – and it is these fundamentals which are taught in studying industrial design.
Since however a product is never isolated but must be seen in the context of its environment, several things must be considered: each design process, namely the interaction between product and society, requires an intensive examination of the respective social and cultural currents and tendencies.

Using traditional and digital techniques, this course enables you to gain the skills and expertise needed for a career in:
modelmaking within architecture;
product development;
television and film special effects.

You acquire an understanding of materials and processes, whilst developing your own individual style as a designer and maker. You also explore the theory and cultural issues relating to modelmaking contemporary practice. You are encouraged to take a personal and innovative approach to modelmaking and gain an understanding of the interaction between traditional techniques and state of the art digital technologies. You also develop business awareness in modelmaking practice and have the opportunity to gain professional experience through our work placement programme and live projects set by industry.

Using traditional and digital techniques, this course enables you to gain the skills and expertise needed for a career in:
modelmaking within architecture;
product development;
television and film special effects.

You acquire an understanding of materials and processes, whilst developing your own individual style as a designer and maker. You also explore the theory and cultural issues relating to modelmaking contemporary practice. You are encouraged to take a personal and innovative approach to modelmaking and gain an understanding of the interaction between traditional techniques and state of the art digital technologies. You also develop business awareness in modelmaking practice and have the opportunity to gain professional experience through our work placement programme and live projects set by industry.

Master’s Degree in Publications Design
If you are fascinated by the interaction of words & images and want to explore new modes of visual & verbal communication, this Master of Arts degree is designed for you.

Conceptual thinking, professional writing and graphic design all converge in this 36-credit program, offered through the School of Communications Design. You’ll develop creative communication and publication strategies, master electronic tools and adapt to emerging technologies. You’ll hone habits of analysis and imagination that will help you translate ideas into print and other media.

M. Tech. (Non Destructive Testing)

As Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) plays a vital role in ensuring the quality and reliability of industrial products, there is a constant demand for qualified NDT professionals in industries.

To meet this industrial demand, the Department offers M.Tech. (NDT) programme which is structured as in the Brunel University, UK. In this programme, students are taught with necessary theoretical inputs as well as with practical training in collaboration with NDT Lab and Welding Research Institute (WRI) of Bharath Heavy Electricals (BHEL), Tiruchirappalli (www.bheltry-spares.com). In this four semester programme, the first two semesters are designed for theory, practicals and field work. The third and fourth semesters are exclusively meant for carrying out project work in industries and various research institutions in the country like IISc, IGCAR, WRI , BHEL, HAL etc.

This programme is indeed a testimony for the interaction between Industry and Educational Institution. NITT enjoys the pride of offering this unique postgraduate programme in whole of the country for nearly two decades.

Recently the M.Tech (NDT) programme has been accredited by National Board of Accreditation (NBA) for 5 years from 2008.

Creating educational environments where we can learn and grow, healthcare environments where we can heal, and work environments in which we can be safe and productive are just some of the goals and rewards of a professional interior designer.

So if creating uniquely inspiring and purposeful spaces where people can live, work and play is your passion, the interior design and pre-architecture program at Mercyhurst College is your answer. At Mercyhurst, you’ll enjoy one-on-one interaction with professors and design professionals, in state-of-the-art studios and labs.

You’ll also have the opportunity to compete in several different design competitions on the regional, state, and national level, where you’re eligible to win awards, scholarships, and professional recognition.

And all students complete an internship/cooperative education experience which are carefully supervised to assure that the student attains professional level experience.

In a climate of rapidly developing technology and changeable cultural, political and economic attitudes, this course provides the opportunity to pursue an active role in designing the future landscape of our everyday environment.

Two design pathways are offered: Product Design and Spatial Design. Within each field, both interdisciplinary design opportunities and specialist design opportunities are available.

Industry contact is encouraged and facilitated throughout the course.
What will you study?

You will explore the broad range of contemporary and proposed issues that inform the design, development and realisation of artefacts and spaces. Study is centred on practical studio and workshop-based design projects. It includes investigation of experimental processes within creative design endeavour and of interdisciplinary design themes eg. light and colour, materials, sustainability, design interaction etc. You will engage within a topical and pertinent design context offered by a guest luminary. Your masters project allows you to study your chosen specialism in more depth.