Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

This unit will introduce you to advanced product and system design as relevant to industrial design. It provides you with knowledge about the various contexts that impact on products - from usability to business to manufacturing. This is an essential part of your education as a professional industrial designer: you will frequently need to integrate different contexts and cross discipline boundaries in order to achieve satisfactory design outcomes.

Aims

The aim of this unit is to provide you with knowledge of product integration within various product- and system-contexts.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:

1. gain an advanced knowledge of design process and creative thinking
2. understand product integration within relevant contexts
3. understand the impact of various context to product design
4. be confidence in collaborating with product development teams

Content

Through design projects you will be exposed to:

• advanced design process and creative thinking
  
• knowledge integration within various contexts
  
• understanding industrial designer's role within collaborative projects

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

The unit will consist of design studio, lectures, workshops and discussions. The focus is on problem-based learning in the design studio setting where your work will be supported by lectures, one-to-one tutorials, group tutorials and feedback sessions. During the semester you will be required to present your work for the discussion in a group situation where you will have an opportunity to explain your design and receive feedback from your peers and staff. Therefore, a key component is the studio wherein you and staff work together to learn about design. Your active participation in studio and a sense of personal responsibility for your development as a designer are essential for success.

Teaching Mode:
Hours per week:
Lecture: 1
Tutorial: 3

Learning Approaches
Learning approaches will cover the following:

• Problem based learning


• Self-directed learning


• Team-based learning


• Experiential learning

Assessment

The assessment will comprise formative (to find out how your work is progressing) and summative (to grade your work against expected outcome) assessment. There will be two design projects.

LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.

Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information please refer to the Blackboard site for this unit.The assessment will comprise formative feedback (to find out how your work is progressing) throughout the semester and summative feedback (to grade your work against expected outcome) at set submission dates throughout the semester.

Assessment name: Concept Presentation
Description: This project focuses on the application of a design approach to the development of an innovative product and service based on an existing technology. This project will be conducted in groups of two, where you will be required to use an existing proven (QUT technology and explore, design and resole innovative an application for this underlying technology to be launched onto the market within an 18 month time frame. At the conclusion of the project you will be required to present enough detail to communicate the product vision to allow the client to determine if they should proceed with the additional product development required.

It will focus on an initial concept presentation of your design solution
Relates to objectives: 1-4
Weight: 30%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group
Due date: Mid semester

Assessment name: Final Design and Portfolio
Description: This project will extend on the selected concept and undertake further design development using the approach shown in class.
Relates to objectives: 1-4
Weight: 20%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Group
Due date: End of semester

Assessment name: Report
Description: This report allows you to use your expertise in Manufacturing and Business Development (as gained in your previous manufacturing technology and new product development units) to refine your design in parallel to your design development phase. This project will be undertaken individually, but you will remain in your groups. Therefore your first task is to determine if you wish to take on the role of Manufacturing or Business development expert to help refine your design vision. Depending on the role you take, you will be submitting a written report outing the manufacturing or business requirements for your project 1 design solution.
Relates to objectives: 1-3
Weight: 50%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End of semester

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

Where possible, electronic copies of notes will be provided on the unit Blackboard homepage.

References
Cagan, J. and Vogel, C. (2002), Creating Breakthrough Products: Innovation from Product Planning to Program Approval, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.
Crawford, M. (2000), New products Management, Irwin/McGraw-Hill, Boston.
Cross, N. (Ed) (1984), Development in Design Methodology, Wiley, New York.
IDSA. (2001), Design secrets. Products: 50 real-life projects uncovered, Rockport, Glaucester.
Manzini, E. (1989), The Material of Invention, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Owen, C. (1993), Design for Integrity, IIT, Chicago.
Journals including Curve, Australia; Axis, Japan; ID, International Design, USA; Domus, Italy; Form and Form Discourse, Germany.

Risk assessment statement

You will undertake lectures and tutorials in studios, and lecture rooms and there are no extraordinary workplace and safety issues associated with this. However workshop usage is required and you will need to attend workshop safety induction sessions that introduce you to safety regulations. Students who do not act in accordance with the requirements of the Workplace and Health and Safety Act will be asked to leave workshop.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 05-Oct-2012