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Vintage Vehicle Body Restoration

Learn metal body repairs and panel finishing. You’ll evaluate body components, outline appropriate repair procedures, strip existing finishes, and repair them.

Model Making – Spring

Turn a product you designed in IND 280 into a professional quality model. You’ll get hands-on experience with the machine lathe and vertical mill, make RTV molds, and cast duplicate parts focusing on dimensional accuracy and visual quality.

The Global Design Studio: Past, Present, and Future

Explore design’s social, political, and cultural impact on the world. You will analyze historical precedents and make projections about the responsibilities and challenges designers may face in the decades to come. NOTE: GLA 627 meets the graduate Cross Cultural Understanding requirement. Students may also seek director approval to apply this… Read More

Machining Technology and Visual Documentation

Precision measurement, visual documentation, and operating metal lathes and milling machines are all important skills. You’ll use these skills to reproduce a component for a car, focusing on common industrial metals used in the machining process and machine tool maintenance.

Automotive Design Studio

You will learn the creative process of automotive design, from doing market research to design sketching to digital and clay modeling. You will finalize a design in the appropriate media for your project that meets the design objective established by your research. (This course is cross-listed with IND 699ADS.)

Design Competition

The challenge is to design a product that does not currently exist. You’ll focus on invention, innovation, sustainability, and intensive research. You’ll apply all skills learned to your final presentations, including developmental sketches, orthographic drawings, sketch models, sketch renderings, and either digital 3D models or hard models.

Design Project 3

Apply your advanced skills and sophisticated understanding of the design process to a topic of your choice. Prepare for MA final review or MFA midpoint reviews. Finish with a comprehensive portfolio piece.

Industrial Design Portfolio

Learn how to prepare an Industrial Design portfolio for job application. You will be reevaluating your design projects generated in other courses and enhancing your design storytelling abilities. Your design pieces will be organized in a portfolio showcasing not just your design abilities but also various skill sets you possess.

Digital 3D Modeling 2

Dig into the 3D design and modeling world. You will develop digital models of your own designs and create presentation renderings using advanced-level NURBS surface modeling software with rendering capabilities.

Automotive Design Studio

You will learn the creative process of automotive design, from doing market research to design sketching to digital and clay modeling. You will finalize a design in the appropriate media for your project that meets the design objective established by your research. (This course is cross-listed with IND 499ADS.)