Auburn University College of Architecture, Design and Construction
  • Home
  • Apply
  • Visit
  • Request Info
College of Architecture, Design and Construction Academic Programs
Architecture Building Science Environmental Design Graphic Design Industrial Design Landscape Architecture Graduate Programs
Tours of Facilities
Dudley Hall Gorrie Center Wallace Hall Research Commons
Unique Experiences and Opportunities
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture McWhorter School of Building Science School of Industrial and Graphic Design Career Services
My playlist 
There are currently no videos in your playlist, click on the plus icon ADD TO PLAYLIST below the video description to add it to your playlist.
    Auburn University College of Architecture, Design and Construction
    Home

    College of Architecture, Design and Construction Academic Programs

    Architecture Building Science Environmental Design Graphic Design Industrial Design Landscape Architecture Graduate Programs

    Tours of Facilities

    Dudley Hall Gorrie Center Wallace Hall Research Commons

    Unique Experiences and Opportunities

    School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture McWhorter School of Building Science School of Industrial and Graphic Design Career Services
    Play Sound
    Apply Visit Request Info
    Apply Visit Request Info
    Next Video
    Landscape Architecture
    Next video starting in 10s

    Industrial Design

    Industrial designers are responsible for shaping and improving how people experience and interact with products, environments, and services. Some of the areas you will find Industrial Designers working are product innovation, point-of-purchase design, and branding. With a student-to-professor ratio of 15-to-1, students have the opportunity to experience the benefits of a small class in the setting of a large university. The Industrial Design curriculum is project-based and allows students to explore design concepts and product designs through ideation, collaboration, iterative prototyping, and reviews. 

    Students accomplish a curriculum-based education through research and design projects that are often supported by industry partners and grants. We aim for our curriculum to parallel the relationship between a product design team and manufacturer found in industry. With the program’s experiential learning approach allowing students to apply their education toward solving real-world problems, this results in a comprehensive portfolio of their designs and creations to present to potential employers.

    Industrial design students have access to fabrication shops that include woodworking equipment, industrial-sized CNC routers, metal fabrication areas, vacuum-formers, 3-D printers, laser cutters, and a large-scale paint booth. These technologies are used to bring a student’s designs ‘off the paper’ in the form of prototypes and models. 

    Students seeking to expand their viewpoints and connect with critical issues of the world have the opportunity to Study Abroad. Past opportunities have included Ireland, Scotland, England, France, Germany, Italy, China, and Taiwan. 

    The industrial design is really a combination of art, engineering, technology and business. So it's very complex field, but the main focus is to solve a problem which will make a product better, make a system better and make a service better.

    Studio is holds a special place in my heart, because it's where you spend most of your time when you're in school, and that's where you do all your work. So if you're making prototypes, and Wallace is a great place to be able to prototype. We have access to so many different resources, like the wood shop and the metal shop, laser cutters, 3d printers. We can use all those tools to fabricate our products that we were making. The peer to peer reviews are very important in industrial as well, because it makes me strive to be better. Because you're seeing other students and seeing what they can do, and you're like, I can do that too. I want to do that too. I like, need to be better. And it's a very like the friendly, healthy competition.

    Our faculty is pretty diverse, from age ranges, nationalities. One of the things that is really great about our program is that our faculty have a lot of industry experience, both in consulting firms and corporate design worlds, and we're able to bring that into the studio. So when we have expectations of students in the studio, we have expectations that also exist in the real world.

    For me, the Career Services helped me prepare for an interview. They were doing an in house interview with a furniture company that was based out of Birmingham, and I was nervous for my interview, because it was the next day. The Career Services Specialist was just like, come in and sit down with me and we can go over this. And she did a mock interview right there no appointment needed. She was just able to help me, and it really like helped calm my nerves and prepared me for the interview my next day.

    Panoramic video playback may work incorrectly in your browser

    Architecture
    Building Science
    Environmental Design
    Graphic Design
    Industrial Design
    Landscape Architecture
    Graduate Programs
    © 2025 Auburn University College of Architecture, Design and Construction
    • Share on Facebook
    • Share on Twitter
    StudentBridge
    Apply Visit Request Info