ID402 GRADUATION PROJECT
Course Code: | 1250402 |
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 8 (4.00 - 8.00) |
ECTS Credit: | 10.0 |
Department: | Industrial Design |
Language of Instruction: | English |
Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. FATMA KORKUT |
Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The course aims to enable students to:
- carry out a real-life design project taking advice from an external advisor located in Turkey, considering the facilities and resources of the advisor and the requirements of potential markets;
- conduct interdisciplinary work by collaborating with professionals from the marketing, production, and design disciplines;
- acquire and develop a self-initiative approach to defining a design problem/opportunity and preparing a strategy in order to formulate an appropriate design solution;
- acquire professional skills to generate contacts with relevant external advisors in order to pursue research and design;
- acquire professional skills and fluency to communicate ideas and design solutions with external advisors as well as course instructors;
- manage a design project with an intense exploratory approach to the issues governed by the design problem/opportunity, and to undertake research to develop awareness of the needs of users and industries;
- frame their project critically and intellectually within a ‘problem space’ and a ‘solution space’ and to reciprocate between the two spaces to reach creative and impactful final design proposals;
- document materials accumulated and generated throughout the design process to gain orderly working discipline;
- present their design proposal at several stages of development accompanied with a comprehensive documentation of the supporting research and design processes;
- follow a predetermined timetable for the project in a professional and punctual manner.
Course Content
Projects carried out with advice from external stakeholders such as industry, design consultancies, non-governmental organizations, public sector bodies and individual experts. Analysing and responding to real-life design problems and opportunities with a critical and professional approach.
Course Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the course, each student will have:
- determined his/her areas of professional interest, and proposed project statements suitable to the final year design studio;
- gained experience in managing and working on a large-scale design project with an external advisor;
- gained experience in interdisciplinary collaboration involving marketing, production, and design disciplines;
- finalised a project statement in accordance with researched user needs and project-relevant constraints;
- employed creativity exercises (e.g. scenario building, brain storming, matrices, etc.) to develop new design concepts;
- provided regular feedback to course instructors on the communications held with his/her external advisor;
- prepared a comprehensive project development portfolio that demonstrates exploration of existing design solutions, potential user groups, design strategies, design criteria, related production technologies, and iterated design solutions;
- provided evidence of progress in his/her design process through sketches, mock-ups and digital models during regular studio critiques and juries/presentations;
- presented a final design proposal (comprising a concept, usage scenarios, product/UI features and technical details) in a professional manner using appropriate media (e.g. digital models, visualizations, technical drawings, physical appearance or working model, working UI, prototype, etc.), to a standard suitable for public exhibition.
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