Valid for: 2024/25
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering LTH
Decided by: PLED M
Date of Decision: 2024-04-09
Effective: 2024-05-08
Depth of study relative to the degree requirements: First cycle, in-depth level of the course cannot be classified
Elective mandatory for: I3
Elective for: M4, MPRR2
Language of instruction: The course will be given in English
Industrial design has become more and more important for companies producing products for a increasingly competitative and demanding market. Products have to be better profiled towards specific target groupes with unique requirements regarding product form, expression and funktion.The aim of the course is that the student shall be able to value and argue about what can be achieved through integration of industrial design efforts and industrial design research in industry.
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must
The course introduces the main aspects of industrial design used by designers in their everyday work together with aspects of contemporary design research. Lectures on design management and the design process and enviromental conserns are included as well as introduction to modelling techniques. The product is examined from a user centered and sociological perspective. The course also contains an industrially related project in which the insights obtained during the course are practiced. In this project the students work in groups of 3-4 students. Guidance is provided and the workshop is open for the students. The students plan when and how they work during the project. Industrial designers active in industry teach and give feedback on the project work. Field trip to design bureau is also included.
Grading scale: TH - (U, 3, 4, 5) - (Fail, Three, Four, Five)
Assessment: Each project group accounts for its work in a paper and by presenting a mock-up model. Each group does also criticize and evaluate the other group projects. The individual grade is then based on the group projects. The grade is also based on attendance on the first part of the course and on assignments being comments on film clips.
The examiner, in consultation with Disability Support Services, may deviate from the regular form of examination in order to provide a permanently disabled student with a form of examination equivalent to that of a student without a disability.
Modules
Code: 0117. Name: Industrial Design.
Credits: 7.5. Grading scale: TH - (U, 3, 4, 5).
The number of participants is limited to: No
Course coordinator: Per Kristav,
per.kristav@design.lth.se
Director of studies: Elin Olander,
elin.olander@design.lth.se
Course homepage: https://www.innovation.lth.se/education/