Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design
Duration: 8 semesters
Modality: Face-to-face
Call: Annual
Faculty of Engineering Sciences and Technology Valle de Las Palmas.
+52 (664) 979-75-91, Ext. 50111
Whoever graduates from the Bachelor's in Industrial Design educational program will be able to work in different sectors:
- Participating in multidisciplinary infrastructure projects through the design of furniture (urban, educational, recreational, among others), as well as in the development of products in the health sector, from utensils to specialized equipment
- Exercising technical and practical knowledge on manufacturing industrial or artisanal products, development of exhibition modules and points of sale, design of promotional products, and packaging and packaging design
- Consulting and technical advice in the development of products, services and experiences
- Product customization, making use of technical and formal design knowledge
- Design, manufacture and sale of self-made products, at different scales (unitary, low, medium and high volume)
- Housing and family, with the development of home products
- Public services participating in the design of urban furniture
- Education, participating in the design of teaching materials, school and recreational furniture
Prepare industrial design students to acquire comprehensive, interdisciplinary and creative training, through a flexible study plan that turns them into highly competent and qualified professionals capable of analyzing, designing and materializing products, services and experiences for society, with an ethical sense, critical attitude, social responsibility and respect for the environment.
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Promote the participation of students in professional internships in both the public and private professional sectors, as well as in social service programs in civil and government organizations; in teaching and research assistantships in proactive collaboration with the teachers of the educational program, and in other learning modalities established in the curriculum.
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Encourage student participation in cultural activities organized in conjunction with other institutions, and in academic activities such as national and international architectural and urban design competitions.
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Promote the use of ICT through online material and mechanisms that enrich educational activities, promoting distance learning and academic activities such as continuing education, workshops, symposiums and colloquiums, among others, to expand the reach and promote participation of the academic community.
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Strengthen the academic staff of professors and researchers by encouraging the permanent participation of the academic staff as speakers and/or attendees in academic updating and pedagogical, professional and technological training activities.
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Generate an internal structure that allows the direct integration of products designed and manufactured by students and teaching staff in the commercial environment, through the formation of a platform of the academic units where the educational program is taught, encouraging creativity, innovation and quality. of the projects executed by students and teachers.
It must possess the following characteristics:
Basic knowledge of:
- Physics
- Communication
- Investigation
- Computing
Skills:
- Drawing
- Tool management
- Assemble and disassemble products
- Activity management
Attitudes and values:
- Creative
- Proactive
- Discipline
- Responsibility
- Honesty
- Sustainability
- Develop design projects, based on the management of techniques analogues and mastery of digital representation techniques, and the information and communication technologies, to serve human needs, with empathy, ethics and creativity.
- Execute design projects, considering manufacturing processes, for the creation of products, services and experiences, with work collaborative and social and environmental responsibility.
- Determine human needs in specific contexts, based on research techniques and instruments, to develop and materialize design proposals that resolve them, with work on multidisciplinary team, respect and honesty.
- Innovate and manage design projects, based on methodologies economic-administrative and design, as well as trends market, to meet social and labor needs, with leadership, entrepreneurship and respect for the environment.
- Design sustainable products, considering the processes of design, manufacturing, marketing, use and disposal, for minimize the environmental, economic and social impact, with meaning critical, responsible and ethical.
- In addition, you must demonstrate English proficiency at A2 level.
Curriculum
| Subject | Credits | Mandatory |
|---|---|---|
| Creativity and Innovation | 6 | ✓ |
| Oral and Written Communication | 6 | ✓ |
| Information and Communication Technologies | 5 | ✓ |
| Design Fundamentals | 6 | ✓ |
| Natural Drawing | 8 | ✓ |
| Historical Appreciation of Art and Culture | 6 | ✓ |
| Basic Digital Tools for Design | 6 | ✓ |
| Equity and Human Rights | 6 | ✓ |
| Development of Design Projects | 6 | ✓ |
| Descriptive Geometry | 7 | ✓ |
| Basic Sketching | 8 | ✓ |
| Mathematics for Design | 6 | ✓ |
| Theory and History of Industrial Design | 6 | ✓ |
| Methodologies for Industrial Design | 6 | ✓ |
| Analog Representation Techniques | 5 | ✓ |
| Utility Object Design | 8 | ✓ |
| Computer Aided Design | 4 | ✓ |
| Graphic Communication | 6 | ✓ |
| Ceramic and Glass Materials and Processes | 7 | ✓ |
| Subject | Credits | Mandatory | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Computer Aided Manufacturing | 4 | ✓ | ||
| Physics, Mechanisms and Assemblies | 6 | ✓ | ||
| Design of Products and Services | 8 | ✓ | ||
| Intermediate Computer Aided Design | 4 | ✓ | ||
| User Centered Design Methods | 6 | ✓ | ||
| Materials and Processes of Wood and Derivatives | 7 | ✓ | ||
| Entrepreneurial Vision | 5 | ✓ | ||
| Sustainable Design Methodologies | 6 | ✓ | ||
| Industrial Processes and Safety | 6 | ✓ | ||
| Design of Industrial Objects | 8 | ✓ | ||
| Advanced Computer Aided Design | 5 | ✓ | ||
| Physical and Cognitive Ergonomics for Design | 5 | ✓ | ||
| Materials and Processes of Metals | 7 | ✓ | ||
| Marketing in Design | 6 | ✓ | ||
| Product Life Cycle | 6 | ✓ | ||
| Sustainability | 5 | ✓ | ||
| Social Sciences and Design | 6 | ✓ | ||
| Product and Systems Design | 8 | ✓ | ||
| Ergonomics Laboratory | 4 | ✓ | ||
| Project Communication | 6 | ✓ | ||
| Polymer Materials and Processes | 7 | ✓ | ||
| Packaging and Packaging Design | 6 | |||
| Industrial Welding | 6 | |||
| Industrial Molds | 6 | |||
| Digital Organic Modeling | 6 | |||
| Introduction to the Industrial Laboratory | 6 | |||
| Models and Models | 6 | |||
| Experimental Screen Printing | 6 | |||
| Gender, Intersectionality and Design | 6 | |||
| Universal Design | 6 |
| Subject | Credits | Mandatory |
|---|---|---|
| Sustainable Engineering and Management | 6 | ✓ |
| Experience Design | 8 | ✓ |
| Management and Administration of Design Projects | 7 | ✓ |
| Technical English for Industrial Designers | 5 | ✓ |
| Design Project | 8 | ✓ |
| Administration of Design and Industrial Property Companies | 6 | ✓ |
| Usability Assessment for Industrial Designers | 6 | |
| Development and Prototyping of Technological Devices | 6 | |
| Biomechanics and Industrial Design | 6 | |
| Product Photography and Video | 6 | |
| Exhibition Modules and Points of Sale | 6 | |
| Textile Design | 6 | |
| Selected Topics of Design Research | 6 | |
| Advanced Ceramics | 6 | |
| Architectural Interior Design | 6 |
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