ID236 MANUFACTURING MATERIALS
| Course Code: | 1250236 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | Industrial Design |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. NAZ AYŞE GÜZİDE Z. BÖREKÇİ |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
On completion of the course, students should have:
• gained awareness of the importance and scope of materials and manufacturing within the profession of industrial design;
• become familiar with the main influences driving industrial designers’ choices of materials and manufacturing routes;
• acquired a broad knowledge of materials, manufacturing, finishing and joining methods specified in contemporary products;
• developed skills in materialising product ideas.
Course Content
ID236 aims enabling undergraduate students to establish and develop an awareness and broad knowledge for selecting materials and manufacturing processes appropriate to various industrial design projects duing their education and continuing professional life. Subjects include properties of materials (including plastics, metals, woods, composites, glass, ceramics), manufacturing and supplementary finishing processes, and component joining methods. Technical and sensorial based approaches to material selection are introduced. Field trips to manufacturers are organised.
Course Learning Outcomes
The expected learning outcomes from the course for the students are:
- To select and justify suitable materials for the desired product experience envisioned for their projects.
- To describe the correct production, joining and finishing processes for the realisation of their projects.
- To make appropriate material, production, joining and finishing processes selections for products regarding their purpose of use and context of use.
- To relate alternative materials for a product with the appropriate production, joining and finishing processes.
- To interpret the implications of material selections made for various products, particularly in terms of usage, user interactions, function and product performance.
- To follow state of the art knowledge about developments in manufacturing and materials issues from an industrial design perspective.
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