7 Courses
BPDE 241 Design for Use
This course seeks to explain why a designer's chance of developing a successful product depends on a good understanding of the sensual or visual quality of a form that disarms or delights the observer. Students will be made aware of the importance of ensuring that good design is people-centered and improves lives on many levels, in order to maintain its value. Students will be provided with the needed information to appreciate the importance of how technology and design go together and the need to integrate user entered design and the "functional, emotional, and social utilities into the creation of goods and services and strategies which consequently increase economic value".
Semester Four
BPDE 242 Visual Communication and Package Design
This course is designed to provide design-related information on packaging design for the product designer. A course on visual communication and package design principles is relevant to industrial/product designers and addresses product/brand definition and corporate identity through package design.
BPDE 243 Ergonomics and Human Factors Applications
This course seeks to introduce students to the importance and essence of Ergonomics which primarily is a way of enhancing the effectiveness of physical objects and enhancing desirable human values of safety and human comfort. The course will have an applied emphasis oriented towards using psychological theory in the “real” world of product design, and basically reducing to designing products better. This course is therefore an attempt to introduce students to a systematic application of relevant information to the design process.
BPDE 244 Contextual Nature of Products
Cultural subjects which have influence on contemporary industrial design. The perspective of the course is anthropological as it discusses the context and cultural relevance of industrial design. By the completion of the course, students will become familiar with some of the basic theories in Sociology, Anthropology, Design and Cultural Studies, and how these affect product development and design. They will gain an in-depth understanding of products in their varied contexts, that is, local, national, international as well as what this means for human society.
BPDE 245 Objects and Impacts
This course explores the rules of designing products so they can actually be manufactured. The main goal of this course is for students to examine the design and production methods for any object.
BPDE 246 Advanced Computer Application
This course explores 3-dimensional modelling as it applies to Product Design. The primary objective of this course is for each student to understand the technology used in 3-D modelling, define the most popular types of 3-D modelling software and understand how computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) information is derived from 3-D models.
ACDT 247 New Venture Creation
This course seeks to inculcate into students, a zeal and the ability to identify, organise and start a new business in design and related fields. It provides a theoretical and practical understanding of entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial behaviour within a variety of organisational contexts.
