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72405 Industrial Design
Danish title: Industriel design

Type: Å, Language: D
Credit points: 5 point
Offered by: Department of Control and Engineering Design (IKS)
Prerequisite: 72221
Recommended semester: 7th - 9th semester
Limitation: Max. 30
Examination: Assessment of report and approval of exercises. Delivering report. ( pass/fail )
Contact person: Mogens Myrup Andreasen, IKS, Building 358, Tel. +45 4525 6258
Aim: The course has the following aims:
To raise the student's understanding of the importance of industrial design in integrated product development.
To enable the student to see and understand industrial design qualities.
To give insight into the professional means of an industrial designer.
To develop motivation, knowledge and skills for a good co-operation with industrial designers.
To raise the understanding for timely co-operation with industrial designers in product development projects.
Contents: The course is project structured, the participants solve small tasks the first 1½ week and one bigger task the last 1½ week. The education is a mix of lectures (where basic concepts are related to the projects) and practise (training the use of marker, rendering, sketching, modelling). The course has the following foci: Perception, ergonomics, communication, quantitative characteristics, user interface, ethics, aesthetics, market, environmental questions, intuition, innovation.