B.F.A. in Industrial Design
Savannah, USA
DURATION
180 Hours
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
USD 41,130 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* total, full-time student for one academic year
Introduction
Industrial designers shape our world, from games and gadgets to bicycles, boats, high chairs, and helmets. As a student at SCAD, you'll get hands-on experience bringing your ideas to reality, carrying on our great tradition of developing world-class designers. In recent years, our students have worked with some of the most recognisable brands in the world — including Lenovo, BMW, AT&T, Clayco, The Coca-Cola Company, Dynacraft, Fisher-Price, Ford Motor Company, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard — to invent practical solutions to real-world challenges. The result? Outstanding portfolios help our graduates take the professional world by storm.
Admissions
Curriculum
Foundation studies: 35 hours
- DRAW 100 Drawing I: Form and Space
- DSGN 100 Design I: Elements and Organization
- DRAW 101 Drawing II: Composition and Media
- DSGN 101 Color: Theory and Application
- DSGN 102 Design II: 3D Form in Space
- DSGN 115 Creative Thinking Strategies
- DRAW 230 Drawing for Design
General education: 55 hours
- COMM 105 Speaking of Ideas
- BUSI 110 Business I: Fundamentals
- CTXT 121 Visual Culture in Context: Pre-Modern Global Perspectives
- CTXT 122 Visual Culture in Context: Making Modernities
- ENGL 123 Ideas to Ink: Critical Concepts in Academic Writing
- DIGI 130 Digital Communication
- ARTH 207 20th-century Art
- BUSI 220 Business II: Economic Principles
- General education elective
- Mathematics/natural sciences elective
- Social/behavioral sciences elective
Major curriculum: 75 hours
- IDUS 100 Introduction to Industrial Design
- SDES 205 Computer-aided Product Design
- Select one of these two options:
- IDUS 209 Rapid Prototyping: Analog to Digital Fabrication
- IDUS 212 Model and Prototype Development
- IDUS 209 Rapid Prototyping: Analog to Digital Fabrication
- IDUS 212 Model and Prototype Development
- SDES 213 Idea Visualization and Communication
- SDES 215 Contextual Research Methods
- IDUS 221 Human Factors in Industrial Design
- IDUS 250 The Development of Product Form
- IDUS 313 Computer Modeling
- IDUS 314 Manufacturing and Assembly of Innovative Materials
- IDUS 316 Portfolio and Résumé Development
- IDUS 321 Industrial Design in the Marketplace
- Select one of these two options:
- IDUS 421 Commercial Practices for Industrial Design
- PRO 580 SCADpro Collaboration
- IDUS 421 Commercial Practices for Industrial Design
- PRO 580 SCADpro Collaboration
- IDUS 471 Industrial Design Senior Studio I: Research and Ideation
- IDUS 491 Industrial Design Senior Studio II: Development and Communication
- Select one of these three options:
- IDUS 479 Undergraduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro elective
- Business-focused elective
- IDUS 479 Undergraduate Internship
- 500-level SCADpro elective
- Business-focused elective
- Additional electives: 15 hours
Total course of study: 180 hours
Career Opportunities
Become a product designer. Become a toy designer. Become a design strategist. The art of industrial design lies in analyzing people's interactions with the objects around them and devising new ways to make human environments functionally superior, aesthetically pleasing, and more enjoyable. Industrial designers seek elegant solutions to complex challenges in usability — and with a degree from SCAD, you can join them.
Launch your career as a professional:
- Product designer
- Innovation catalyst
- Transportation designer
- Medical device designer
- Interaction designer
- Consumer electronics designer
- UX designer/researcher
- Lighting designer
- Industrial designer
Get recruited and hired by the best of the best:
- Abercrombie and Fitch
- Art and Cook
- Blade Dynamics
- Clorox
- Core77
- Electrolux
- Packaging Corporation of America
- Texas Instruments Education Technology
- Williams-Sonoma