Design for Technology (DETE)

Industry has recently developed a need for people with a mix of design skills, including technical function and aesthetics, and innovation and entrepreneurship.

Design for Technology blends scientific, technical and business subjects with design, with an emphasis on industrial and environmental design. With this mix of skills, graduates will be able to work in interdisciplinary design teams where products have a strong technical function.

Graduates will be capable of working in a number of design environments, from small new-start companies to large industrial concerns. With appropriate management training they will have the potential to develop new design businesses from start-up to maturity.

Paths of study

Design for engineering — more strongly focused on how engineering intersects with design; in particular the role structures and fluids play in effective, safe and smart design

Design for innovation — more strongly focused on design ideation, human-centred design and the role design plays in business and social contexts

Common core of theory, practice and vertical integration of sustainable and strategic design

• 100 level: Design thinking, theory, process and history
• 200 level: Development of competencies (analytical, creative, industrial, communication) through experimentation
• 300 level: Advanced applications (problems and solutions with industry/social implications)

Courses

• Requirements overview

Course Coordination

• Associate Professor Sarah Wakes