ID503 RESEARCH METHODS IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN I
| Course Code: | 1250503 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (0.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Industrial Design |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. GÜLAY FATMA HASDOĞAN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
- The course aims to provide students with exploration, research thinking, verbal communication, writing and team-work skills,
- to enable them formulate a research problem, research goal, research questions, and propose research methodology accordingly
- to enable them experience a small-scale research practice related to industrial design field.
Course Content
Focusing on the epistemological foundations of qualitative inquiry, this course aims to introduce graduate students to the design and implementation of qualitative research projects. Course participants will explore various qualitative research traditions such as Interviewing, Case Study, Action Research, Ethnography, Narrative Inquiry, Phenomenological Studies, and Grounded Theory.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, each student will define a research problem within the field of industrial design, clarify research goals, generate research questions to be addressed, select appropriate research methods and techniques to inquire the answers of the research questions, analyse internal and external factors which effect the research problem, and make a critical review of the related literature. The students will also design and practice a short research exercise as a team-work.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Identifying research areas in distinct and contemporary topics and formulating research problems; | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Being competent in the research process, process planning, managing, analyzing data, and correctly interpreting findings; | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Transforming knowledge in the field and research results into strategies, politics, methods and/or decisions; | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Transferring research findings into design education and practice; | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Disseminating generated knowledge, making publications and presenting them; | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Having general knowledge in the field of design, having covered the literature and developing expertise in specific topics; | ✔ | |||
| 7 | Having responsibility towards own research, respecting and practicing research ethics; | ✔ | |||
| 8 | Having work discipline and skills in time planning; | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Having skills in oral, written and visual communication; | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Open to continuous education and self-development, having high professional motivation; | ✔ | |||
| 11 | Open and willing to share knowledge and skills with stakeholders; | ✔ | |||
| 12 | Being critical, able to make self-criticism, reflecting objective and unprejudiced thinking into their own work; | ✔ | |||
| 13 | Synthesising knowledge from different disciplines to use in one?s own field and using it for generating new knowledge. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution