This proposal lays the framework for an Industrial Design (ID) program at WPI. This was achieved by gauging student interest in ID at WPI, researching several universities in the U.S, Japan, Taiwan, Italy, and UK at the graduate and undergraduate level, interviewing current Industrial Design professors at those universities, and tabulating their infrastructure, courses, and extracurriculars for ID. Based on our findings, our group put together a series of recommendations for successful integration of ID at WPI. Firstly, we have listed the courses that would be great additions for the ID curriculum. We suggest introducing new infrastructure resources and centralizing makerspaces integral to Industrial Design.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Dykstra, Jason
• Liliedahl, Matthew
• Alag, Aashish Singh
• Martinho, Alex

Subject

• Project-Based Learning
• Industry
• Culture
• Innovation
• Infrastructure
• Learning
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 43641
• E-project-121621-140114

Keyword

• Program
• WPI
• Industrial
• Major
• Design
• Proposal

Advisor

• deWinter, Jennifer
• Belz, Melissa

Year

• 2021

Center

• Kyoto, Japan Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Jennifer deWinter
• Curtis Allen Abel

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 4 - Quality Education
• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Date created

• 2021-12-16

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright