ID319 VIRTUAL DESIGN STUDIO
| Course Code: | 1250319 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (2.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Industrial Design |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Lecturer Dr. DALSU ÖZGEN KOÇYILDIRIM |
| Offered Semester: | Once in several years. |
Course Objectives
By the end of the course students will:
- Understand the impact of distributed design process on strategies and design outcomes
- Develop and gain experience in using distance communication
- Explore cultural issues and concepts with exchanges and evaluation
- Develop skills in writing and evaluation of design briefs
- Develop teamwork skills
- Provide critical feedback
- Develop the means to implement and communicate the design strategy to a client
Course Content
This course aims to create communication and collaboration in a virtual environment. The environment simulates a physical design studio in which geographically dispersed studio participants collaborate as they are in the same design studio. This course intends to develop students? computer skills to express design ideas using various media. The topics to be covered are analyzing and designing a virtual environment, rapid prototyping of a computer generated 3D model and creating a digital video. All the media used and learned in the course supposed to be used in final project assignment.
Course Learning Outcomes
• Understand the impact of distributed design process on strategies and design outcomes
• Develop and gain experience in using distance communication
• Explore cultural issues and concepts with exchanges and evaluation
• Develop skills in writing and evaluation of design briefs
• Develop teamwork skills
• Learn how to give critical feedback
• Develop the means to implement and communicate the design strategy to a client
The above skills are becoming increasingly important in new product development as a result of changing global manufacturing environment. Students will be working with external partners located in different geographic locations.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Creative problem defining and solving. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Planning and managing the design process. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Presenting and conveying design solutions orally, in written and visually (2D and 3D). | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Planning, managing and evaluating the results of design-focused research. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Contributing to the design of products in order to raise the life quality of the society. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Generating and applying knowledge to serve sustainable production and life. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Competency in intellectual and industrial property rights. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Awareness of and sensitivity towards societal, institutional, individual and contextual differences. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Awarenes of social and cultural facts and continuous change. | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Competency in economic, industrial and technological developments. | ✔ | |||
| 11 | Continuous development of professional knowledge, skills and approaches. | ✔ | |||
| 12 | Competency in the processes and actions in professional life. | ✔ | |||
| 13 | Adaptation to the different working environments and processes that the profession necessitates, and contributing to the development and improvement of these environments. | ✔ | |||
| 14 | Ability in working within teams. | ✔ | |||
| 15 | Giving importance to interdisciplinary interactions. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution