Industrial designers serve the consumer through sensitive and innovative collaboration with art, science, engineering, anthropology, marketing, manufacturing, and ecology.
Industrial designers give form to virtually all mass-manufactured products in our culture. They seek opportunity and advantage through identifying and solving problems. Their creative contributions impact the utility, appearance, and value of our tools, toys, and environment. Their most innovative solutions lie at an intersection of what is knowable and what is possible.
The industrial design profession demands excellent organizational skills, an awareness of visual and tactile aesthetics, human behavior, human proportion, material, process, and the responsible appropriation of resources, during and after use. Designers express conceptual proposals through a combination of well-developed drawing, physical modeling, computer modeling, writing, and verbal skills.
Designers best serve the consumer through sensitive and innovative collaboration with art, science, engineering, anthropology, marketing, manufacturing, and ecology. Properly implemented, industrial design affords greater benefit, safety, and economy to all participants and recipients impacted by the product development cycle.
| First Year |
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| Industrial Design: Design Drawing (Adobe Tutorial corequisite) |
| Industrial Design: Product Design 1 |
| 2D Foundations |
| 3D Foundations |
| Art History |
| Sophomore |
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| Industrial Design: Digital Solid Modeling (Rapid Prototyping corequisite) |
| Metal Foundry 1 |
| Photography 1 |
| Figure Drawing |
| Drawing 1 |
| Art History |
| Junior |
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| Industrial Design: Industry Practice (Portfolio Lab corequisite) |
| Industrial Design: Product Research/Process |
| VCD 1: Origins, concepts and processes of graphic design |
| VCD 2: History, application, and art of typography |
| Art History |
| Senior |
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| Industrial Design: Collaborative Product Development |
| Industrial Design: BFA thesis: research and concept development |
| Industrial Design: BFA thesis: solution, production and installation |
| BFA Seminar |
| Art History |
- A completed Common Application or Coalition Application AND the Notre Dame supplement
- A completed 2017-2018 Certification of Finances plus financial documentation verifying the totals on the Certification of Finances
- An official transcript or record of academic achievement in secondary school
- Official results of the SAT or the ACT Assessment
- Official results of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), if applicable. We strongly recommend a score of 100 or higher on the Internet based TOEFL or a 7.5 or higher on IELTS
- A letter of evaluation from a teacher, headmaster, or counselor
- A $75 non-refundable application fee
- A copy of your passport
- A completed CSS/Financial Aid PROFILE if applying for need-based financial aid
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- Merit Scholarships
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