ID331 WORKSHOP PRACTICE IN MODEL MAKING FOR INDUS. DES.

Course Code:1250331
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week):3 (2.00 - 2.00)
ECTS Credit:4.0
Department:Industrial Design
Language of Instruction:English
Level of Study:Undergraduate
Course Coordinator:Lecturer ALİ GÜNÖVEN
Offered Semester:Fall or Spring Semesters.

Course Objectives

This course aims to enable students to:

  • Prepare inclusive production plans for supplying and producing processes.

  • Make documentation for planned and applied processes.

  • Use different materials and production techniques for realizing designed products. 

  • Present design solutions via technical drawings and basic two- and three-dimensional presentation techniques and models.

  • Follow and be aware of the working environment and community.


Course Content

The objective of this course is to develop student`s awareness on potentials of materials and basic and creative processes to shape those materials into finished pieces; to equip students with basic thinking and operational abilities to build (realize) their 3D models, through analyzing their individual projects and helping them to develop their critical thinking in realization of their work, helping them to analyze sequential nature of production, fabrication and construction, finishing and putting different sub processes into an order. Guiding students to generate their own way of doing things through execution of his/her work.


Course Learning Outcomes

Having completed the course, students will have:

  • Experienced the overall structure and different steps of a model making process, and the model making methods and tools appropriate for each step;

  • Undertaken basic research to recognize and analyze materials, production techniques and possible problems within a planned process;

  • Used systematic thinking, to develop model solutions in the progress of model making period.

  • Assessed their peers’ and their own process with reference to the specified design intent and within overall project parameters;

  • Undertaken individual timetabling and task planning, and as a team, task distribution, group decision making, and peer assessment;

  • Kept a documentation-book to document and reflect on their own learning experience.


Program Outcomes Matrix

Level of Contribution
#Program Outcomes0123
1Creative problem defining and solving.
2Planning and managing the design process.
3Presenting and conveying design solutions orally, in written and visually (2D and 3D).
4Planning, managing and evaluating the results of design-focused research.
5Contributing to the design of products in order to raise the life quality of the society.
6Generating and applying knowledge to serve sustainable production and life.
7Competency in intellectual and industrial property rights.
8Awareness of and sensitivity towards societal, institutional, individual and contextual differences.
9Awarenes of social and cultural facts and continuous change.
10Competency in economic, industrial and technological developments.
11Continuous development of professional knowledge, skills and approaches.
12Competency in the processes and actions in professional life.
13Adaptation to the different working environments and processes that the profession necessitates, and contributing to the development and improvement of these environments.
14Ability in working within teams.
15Giving importance to interdisciplinary interactions.

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