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The Master of Industrial Design program explores design as a vehicle for addressing social, cultural, environmental and other concerns, recognizing that design is not simply a professional service, but rather a way of connecting individual interests and values with a social framework. Students with undergraduate degrees in other fields or with limited design experience are invited to enter the program during Wintersession as a means of preparing to begin the two-year master’s program the following fall.

ID covers a broad range of fields, from product and furniture explorations to design for aerospace and medical applications. Graduate students work independently under the guidance of a faculty advisor and thesis committee, and present their final work verbally, visually and in writing. They also participate in the RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition , a large-scale public show held annually.

“Graduate candidates in ID don’t necessarily need an undergraduate degree in the field, but they do need strong visual communication skills. For those without an ID background, learning CAD, drawing and model making can be beneficial, and taking a general product design course can provide insight into the design process. Materials-based courses in a medium such as metal, glass, textiles, ceramics or wood also provide a good basis for work in ID.” - Andy Law, Graduate Program Director

Graduate Program Director: Andy Law

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Theses from 2024 2024

Industrial Tenderness , Elbert Girón

Repair Rolodex: Exchanges, Changes, and Patchwork Parables , Ethan Howard

Re-touch , Yuxin Jin

Theses from 2023 2023

Kole , Isaiah Aladejobi

Fungi in Flux | Designing Regenerative Materials and Products with Mycelium , Arvind Bhallamudi

MILITURE , Bingdong Duan

POSTINDUSTRIAL PLAYBOOK++ , Maxwell Fertik

Freedom is a Leaky System: Living Together in the Mess , Calgary Haines-Trautman

Food, Drink, Time, New Year and Cloth , Jian Li

Making That Carries Over , Jae Nam

How to make a hybrid workplace more human? , Ray Sun

Unveiling Pain: Wearables for Objective Pain Measurement , Hanqing Tang

A PRELIMINARY GUIDE TO BUILDING NEW FUTURES IN THE NARRAGANSETT BAY , Maximilian Werner

Knot, Just Craft It , Qingxian Xu

Theses from 2022 2022

Ready made, made ready: everyday objects for everyday emergency , Dara Benno

Memories unboxed: connecting people with stories of our possessions , Megan Tzu-Hsien Chao

To be seen to be heard: embracing social anxiety in the workplace , Jingxuan Chen

Attuning the viewfinder , Ian de Silva

Disoriented: navigating the nuances of communication , Ann Dinh

Sobremesa , Charlie Herbozo-Vidal

Vulva gazing: power and the gendered body , Aaliya Jamal Zaidi

A fleeting landscape: resurrecting the edges of the estuary , Vrinda Mathur

Material Illumination , Lauren Mikaela Glenn

Extended reality interface , Neil Nelson

Breaking | Grounding | Growing: Expanding the Rhode Island gardening reentry programs as a pathway towards stability , Juliana Soltys

We got this... , Julian Wellisz

Sub Sequence : building a participatory infrastructure , Aaron Wright

Theses from 2021 2021

Designing for space; exploring ways of simulating nature and everyday activities in zero-g environment , Sayit Alisan

Psychological well-being through music listening , Majed BouGhanem

Shoes for advanced urban surfaces , Karan Buasakdi

After plastic waste : plastic bottle knitting machine - design for value of recycling plastic , Du Cheng

Katti-Batti : a digital tool for young adolescents to transgress the limitations of gender socialization through empathy & friendship , Chetan Dusane

Beyond conscious: the knowing of self-owned anxiety , WenYu Du

Rebuilt the fading vicinity , Yifan Du

The portal : a tool for uncertain times , Sophie Engel

Inter - : design for fostering action-oriented awareness towards sustainable transition , Elena Danlei Huang

Move in the internet , Jennifer Ziyuan Huang

Living objects , Katie Tzu Hua Huang

The art of microbe maintenance: value and applications in design , Yujin Hwang

Distilling the Narragansett Bay , Parker Ives

Kitsch study and Chinese kitsch market , Jiaqi Ellie Liu

Beacon Public Library: expanding radical civic care for an uncertain future , Katrina Machado

Ars Technica , Bayan Mashrequi

Inside the bubble 2.0 , Sunny Yuqing Ma

Wild things: outdoor toys for nature play , John Mawhorter

Indefinite origin: decentralizing knowledge , Tong-June Moon

No winners: transgender athletes in cycling , Max Pratt

Zoomorphic extended body , Nicholas Tamas

Uncertainty wanted: deconstructing gender gap in parenting mentality , Zimeng Xiang

A family game: tell the stories that shape us , Zhuoyan Xie

Theses from 2020 2020

Sol , John Beck

Repairer's recipe : volume 0 , Joyce Chang

Experience the world: How the ever-present accessibility of hands-on opportunities & play enhance logistical learning , Mary E. Chavez

Ocean state food stories , Charlotte Clement

Beautiful dirt : exploring the American taboo of death through the things we leave behind , Jake Dangstorp

Designed body , Jingwei Deng

Acute , Alex D'Haeseleer

Mimesis : human-centered digital profiling visual identity , Yangyang Ding

Voran Test Lab : An exploration of teaching collaborative problem solving and critical thinking through emergent gameplay , Taber Gifford

inVisible: a guide to understanding & designing for introverts , Ashesh Gohil

Through the labyrinth , Rebeca Gonzalez Morales

+ one : a new companionship , Vivien Mengjiao Han

Lift a life , Vidur Madhav

Night Knights: reminding children that their nighttime fear isn't something they have to face alone , Ji Hyung Moon

Fifty fifty: redefining domesticity , Ziying Qiao

The objects around us. , Rohit Sen

Accessibility to possibilities : discover the unknown unknown worlds , Yutong Shen

Totem: An embodiment of human character and personality in footwear design , Sushant Shivaram

Togather: To gather together , Kyungah Sohn

Surviving in a gregarious world , Shiyang Yao

Ether: a social design , Zihan Zhou

Theses from 2019 2019

Biomatters : future of biology as material source , Tareq Alzawawi

Mindful interactions , Shreyans Bhandari

Unimproved : land observation at the edge of progress , Adam Somers Bowen

Bitter son , Adam Chuong

Pekka : social software to improve in-game dynamics , Yu Mo

Theses from 2018 2018

Autonomous vehicle futures : designing experiences that enable trust and adoption , Jeremy Bass

Foodways for earthlings : recipes and tools for eating in extreme environments , Maggie Coblentz

Curious things , Allison Davis

Idiosyncratic uniform , Erica Efstratoudakis

Really clean no problems at all , Christina Johnston

Letsqube , Biniam Assegid Kebede

For a better normal : fostering the informal sector in post-hurricane Puerto Rico, as a pathway for economic stabilization , Jonathan W. Melendez Davidson

Harmless Studio , David Thomas Pittman

Dispatches from planet nowhere , Aaron Field Simmons

Radically normal : the menstruation issue , Kathryn Smiley

Talking to computers , Jen Spatz

A place for plastics : bioplastics, bacteria and our thoughtless acts , Megan Valanidas

Memory.zip , Yu-Hsing Wu

Theses from 2017 2017

Communicatronics , Adi Azulay

Balance speaker : efficient work and break , Jin Cao

Talistones : a handful of help for homecoming soldiers , Atulya Changanty

Magkasama , Christina Chen

Retooling : experiments in digital apprenticeship , Ryan Ferguson

Body (less) fitness , Dan Gioia

Love view , Wudi Hong

Connections : a new model to customizing everything , Shao-Hsuan Hou

Motivated motivation : a consulting tool to find new platforms for business , Xiaoxio Jin

Embracing traditional Chinese culture through design , Jiaxuan Li

P-Lax : toys for adults, to play & relax , Zhizi Liu

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DES470 INDUSTRIAL DESIGN THESIS is a year-long capstone project providing students with the opportunity to develop a specific focus within design. ​In the fourth year of the BDes program, studio courses take two distinct paths to applying acquired knowledge: personal and professional. In the first semester, students conduct extensive research and identify a self-generated complex design problem. Students perform a thorough design investigation through a personal lens, gaining an understanding of the variety of areas of practice within the discipline. They produce professional quality functional and/or aesthetic prototypes of the final design and are guided to present their ideas effectively through verbal and visual arguments. Students document their design process for professional portfolio, collectively evaluate the success of their final projects, and exhibit thesis results in the Year End Show.

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The MFA Industrial Design program prepares you to negotiate the seemingly contradictory forces at play in the growing product design industry. You explore the way goods can be produced in both localized contexts (a “making in place” approach, which relies on regionalized needs and constraints) and globalized contexts (employing design principles focusing on universal needs). You combine advanced making skills with critical inquiry and hone your skills using Parsons’ state-of-the-art product prototyping and testing facilities.

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Learn to integrate and reconcile competing interests such as economical and sustainable production, consumerism, social improvement, and global and local production.

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Access the country’s capital for creative-sector jobs and top design talent, New York City, with local industry events and collaborations with commercial and nonprofit partners.

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Learn to design for production at all scales, from low volume to high volume, employing methods ranging from desktop manufacturing to systems involving global supply chains.

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Share fabrication and studio spaces with students from related graduate programs in Architecture, Lighting Design, and Industrial Design, fostering interdisciplinary work.

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The program attracts students with experience in product design but also accepts candidates from other professions and disciplines such as engineering, fine art, management, and anthropology.

• Degree Master of Fine Arts
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In their second semester, MFA Industrial Design students explore limited-run making in New York City, and in the third semester they can investigate large-scale global production through virtual collaborations. A specialized thesis project offers opportunities to develop designs that advance — or challenge — industrial design theory and practice.

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Graduates emerge prepared to design innovative products and lead the industries that produce them as well. Career paths include industrial design, product development, manufacturing, furniture design, humanitarian and service design, and toy design.

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Course - industrial design engineeering, master's thesis - tpd4900, course-details-portlet, tpd4900 - industrial design engineeering, master's thesis, examination arrangement.

Examination arrangement: MasterThesis Grade: Letter grades

Course content

In the master's course, the student must formulate a thesis description describing the academic content, which is approved by the supervisor. The thesis description sets the framework and expectations for academic content, process, methodology, and results. The final result should show the student's overall design competence that has been acquired throughout the programme.

Learning outcome

The candidate can

• Deliver the results of an independent design process
• Use scientific and design methods when carrying out an independent work
• Work visually, through drawing or other representation to convey their work
• Has a good understanding of his role as a designer within the chosen topic

The candidate

• is able to prepare and independently lead a project plan with milestones, report partial results and write a master's thesis according to guidelines
• masters and can independently choose, lead and implement the design subject's working methods, forms of expression and can apply these within the framework of his/her thesis/theme
• can discuss their findings/results and design concepts at an advanced level and with a critical design mindset
• can communicate their design knowledge, process and insight through designative approaches including aesthetic and practical understanding

General competence:

The candidate has

• Documented scientific and design competence when completing a master's thesis in the field.
• Takes independent responsibility for their own learning and can apply their knowledge in new fields
• Can reflect critically, aesthetically and ethically on their own design work
• Can communicate design work to specialists and the general public at a professional level
• Can link their professional expertise in the context of societal issues including sustainability

Learning methods and activities

Independent project work with supervision by agreement. The assignment can be wholly or partly carried out at a company or organization, by agreement with the teacher, sometimes with a co-supervisor from the company or organization.

Further on evaluation

Assessment in the course is based on submitted master's thesis and additional documentation, such as models and prototypes (can be both physical and digital). All material to be assessed must be submitted in a timely manner. In addition, there is a mandatory oral presentation and exhibition of the results, normally 1-2 weeks after submission of the thesis. The presentation may be adjusting to the assessment of the submitted results. The submitted material shall provide adequate documentation of results and work process, and shall include the following: A PDF file delivered in INSPERA. The file must contain the Master's thesis report adapted for printing in B5 format. The report must contain the original thesis text. In addition to the report, it is mandatory to submit presentation items for exhibition of the master's thesis. If you fail your master's thesis, you are allowed to submit a new or revised master's thesis 1 time. If you are not satisfied with your grade, you cannot improve your grade by voluntary retake. The deadline for grading master's theses is three months.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required: Industrial Design (MSDESIG) Industrial Design Engineering (MTDESIG)

Required previous knowledge

The main rule is that all required courses must be passed. The faculty may accept that a maximum of 15 ECTS may remain. The prerequisite is that the remaining courses are not considered essential for the completion of the master's thesis, and that no specialization courses are missing. 12 weeks of mandatory work experience must be approved for MTDESIG

Course materials

To be developed together with the supervisor as a part of the thesis work.

Version: 1 Credits:  30.0 SP Study level: Second degree level

Term no.: 1 Teaching semester:  AUTUMN 2024

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Industrial Design Student Wins 2022 Outstanding Thesis Award

Project highlights how industrial design during the cold war influenced politics, by symone daniels • july 27, 2022.

The University of Houston Honor College recently honored Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design 2022 industrial design graduate Karina Bhattacharya as part of their annual Outstanding Senior Thesis Awards . This recognition marks the first time any Hines College student has received this honor in four years.

The Senior Honors Thesis program is a research experience completed during a student’s senior year. Qualifying students must have a 3.5 GPA in their major and work under the guidance of a senior thesis advisor leading them throughout the process. Students completing this program are awarded honors designation at graduation. This distinction is also displayed on their transcript.

Bhattacharya's thesis project, “Design Practice in Support of Capitalism: Industrial Design and Cold War Consumer Politics ,” sought to prove how industrial design can demonstrate political ideals and values. To explore this theory, Bhattacharya studied three industrial design exhibitions taking place during the Cold War and how they influenced politics.

"Most were industrial designs, but all are examples of American industrial designers who influenced European places, including the Marshall Plan exhibit and the Brussels World's Fair," she said.

Bhattacharya  believes industrial design studies should not only focus on designing objects themselves, but also include physical artifacts in social, economic, and political systems in order to learn more about industrial design from an expanded worldview.

United States Pavillion, 1958 Brussels World’s Fair (Expo 58). Photo by Steve McCluskey, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Bhattacharya began her collegiate career majoring in civil engineering while simultaneously enrolled in the Honors College. Although she was not interested in liberal arts, she took a mandatory human situation sequence course encompassing reading material from all subjects under the liberal arts umbrella. Additionally, Bhattacharya’s professor encouraged her to try a phronēsis course. At the time, she did not want to commit to a minor, however, after taking a specialty class focusing on executive office with upper-level political science majors, Bhattacharya determined the knowledge she gained was a great segue into phronēsis. As a result, she attended an information session as a joke, ended up enjoying it, and enrolling in the course.

It was important to Bhattacharya that she have friends outside of her central studies and surround herself with others who think differently because, ultimately, it can expose you to alternative perspectives. Understanding other subjects helped lead her to becoming a great designer. Her thesis project helped her merge all of her interests .  

"Designers were politically influenced by the environment of the Cold War and the Soviet Union,” explained Bhattacharya. “They believed capitalism versus communism was a part of their everyday life and design played a role in this."

The Outstanding Senior Thesis Award left Bhattacharya with a sense of pride and validation, knowing she "completed something" taking nearly a year and a half of hard work and dedication.

Bhattacharya’s thesis committee included: Michael Kubo, Ph.D., second reader Luisa Orto, Ph.D., and honors reader Dustin Gish, Ph.D.

To learn more about Bhattacharya’s thesis click here .

Two other Hines College students were awarded Outstanding Senior Thesis Awards  — Fuko Nara's project Rethinking Health Awareness  and David Rincon's project Transition: Boundaries and Edges of Third Ward . Both students declined to be interviewed for this story.

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We Have Moved!

The Bachelor of Industrial Design program is now part of the Faculty of Media, Creative Arts, and Design. Find our new thesis show on Humber Current.

Welcome to the Bachelor of Industrial Design Thesis Show 2023

Friday, April 28, 2023 | 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

BCTI, 205 Humber College Blvd., Toronto

About the Show

Students graduating this year have learned to be adaptable and embrace change, switching seamlessly between in-person and digital studies. They have become dynamic in their skill sets by adjusting to new tools and design methods as the situation calls for it. This need for continuous learning has become ingrained into their design process, allowing them to become untethered from their current experiences and knowledge.

These students are not afraid to take risks or take the plunge into the unknown – they are up for the challenge. We celebrate the culmination of four years of dedication and each students’ commitment to design excellence.

Let the Show Begin

The Senior Level Thesis Project is the culmination of the Industrial Design student’s career at Humber. It is the result of continuous development over the course of the academic year leading to this capstone project.

THESIS PROJECTS

Ricky Saluja

Evaluer - Improving Soccer Fitness Evaluation

Medical, Health & Safety

Reem Abdelhaleem

Holokin - Dyslexia & Innovative Workspaces

Commercial, Industrial & Professional

Harry Cotaras

ReCess - Dyslexia Tutoring Pod for Schools

Thomas Ferreira

Waste·Way - Indoor Waste Management Experience

Halo - Vision Care System

Mary-Beth Scully

Contour | Tattoo Workstation Workflow & Comfort

Justin Wray

IMPACT - Youth Football Safety

Recreation & Sports​

Josh Mulrooney

Andrew Chartrand

Multitrack - Athlete Training & Injury Mitigation

Catriona Mackenzie-Bird

uPwR - Community Power in Rural Uganda

A’shantee Spencer

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Thomas Purchase

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Charlotte Watkins

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Maximiliano Garcia Sosa

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Sebastian Krnic

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Anthony Grguric

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Melissa Stocco

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Dino Simatos

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Elishia Polwattage Peiris

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Mitchell Wiley

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Shoshannah Meggie

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Colton Brown

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Zakaria Lahroussi

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Industrial Design — MID

The school offers the Master of Industrial Design (MID) degree accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Applicants must have a bachelor's degree in industrial design or equivalent from an institution of recognized standing. Applicants with a bachelor's degree in an industrial-design-related discipline, such as architecture, graphic design, interior design, and fashion design, etc. are eligible to apply through the regular application process. Acceptance to the MID program is heavily based on portfolio review. Unsuccessful applicants with an industrial-design-related degree, or applicants with a non-design degree, may choose to apply to the graduate program under the condition that a minimum of 43 post baccalaureate credit hours in industrial design be completed at the undergraduate level with a 3.0 GPA. These applicants are admitted during the summer semester and awarded a bachelor of science in industrial design studies (NASAD accredited) upon completion of the three semester post baccalaureate program. Upon admission to the master’s program successful completion of 35 graduate level credit hours, including a thesis is required. A 40-credit hour non-thesis option is available. Minimum (4) credit hours of  INDD 7990 Design Thesis is required but may not exceed six hours. Course content beyond the 17-credit hour core curriculum will be structured to accommodate the student’s area of interest. Completion of an industry collaboration studio ( INDD 7910  Industry Practicum) is required. There is no language requirement. An external terminal document draft review and a 3.0 overall graduate GPA are required. Participation in school sponsored international travel programs may be used as credit towards graduation. Students are admitted only in the fall semester. Applications to the graduate program must be complete by February 1.

All courses are (3) credits except Special Problems  INDD 6960  (1-5) credits, Thesis Design  INDD 7990  (1-5) credits and Industry Practicum  INDD 7910  (5) credits. Thesis requires (35) credits minimum,  four semesters , with no more than (6) credits taken in  INDD 7990 . Non-Thesis requires (40) credits minimum,  four semesters  with (3) credits taken in  INDD 7980 . It is required that MID students take no more than 12 graduate credits per semester (9 is full-time) and enter the program during fall semester. All thesis, non-thesis documentation drafts for the MID must be completed and submitted for final graduation review by the respective graduate committee  the semester prior to  the intended semester of graduation. A 3.0 GPA or above is required to qualify for graduation. Select  INDD 6960  classes may be offered during the summer semester. Graduate students transferring from other INDD graduate programs will be reviewed for admission on a case-by-case basis but must complete all AU/MID Required Core Courses.  The recommended enrollment in graduate classes is eight students.  No more than 15 credits in  INDD 6960  may be used toward graduation.  

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Hello I am a 3rd year industrial design student. Im going to be starting my final year project and am struggling to decide what direction or how exactly I should go about the whole process since so far we have been provided a problem statement or a scenario.

I wanted to go for a more want based product rather than a need based but seniors have advised against it because those products don't do well during final presentations (they claim that jurors are generally from engineering fields and a lot older so they end up dismissing such products completely. One student had made a product for anxiety and the jurors simply stated that anxiety doesnt exist)

I want to do a project that I would enjoy doing more but at the same time I dont want my GPA to drop as it might affect my chances of getting a scholarship. Any advice or how you went about this whole process would be greatly appreciated

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Innovative Designs - Thesis 2022

In the second year of RIT's industrial design MFA program , student conduct research and develop a thesis project, presented in a graduate thesis exhibition or presentation, and is documented in a written thesis report.

Below is a collection of thesis designs by the Class of 2022.

Design in main image by Mingshou Li; all photos by Elizabeth Lamark

Boheng Huang

Mary McLoughlin

Grace Newman-Lapinski

Anthony Parrucci

Jung Whan Park

Thomas Roberti

Shizhuo Sun

Daheng Tong

Bowen Zhang

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