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    School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture McWhorter School of Building Science School of Industrial and Graphic Design
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    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. 

    So Industrial Design is this beautiful hybrid between art and engineering. It strives to solve a lot of real world problems through creativity. So we're trying to establish this balance between understanding the consumer, their needs, the things they can't express, but also making it viable, financially viable for some to afford it.

    Industrial Design can be anywhere from designing exhibits at the McWayne Center, here in Alabama, or it could be designing cars for Ferrari. It can be designing 3D printers, shoes. The studio experience in this building is always great. Each studio has a completely different feel.

    The technology in our building allows us to make more toys of the toys that we have. So we have an incredible woodshop downstairs with incredible staff, over 40 years of experience. An incredible wealth of knowledge, helping our students learn to the archaic fabrication process, metal shop, plastic shops, giant CNC machines, tiny CNC machines, VR, it's a really, If you can dream it up. We can build it within our walls,

    In my studio, we work with our clients very closely in different aspects. Right now, we're designing throws and walking heads for the parade this coming Mardi Gras.

    Study abroad programs are great. Probably our founding program is the Ireland program, which really is Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, France and Italy. It's really wonderful. It's pretty much a full semester abroad and we're able to partner with design schools, and literally the students go from design school to design schools to design schools. So they get to see how the discipline of Industrial Design is interpreted across a number of different cultures.

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