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Shape your master In all of the Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) masters’ curriculums, 18 EC is reserved for elective courses. This gives students the freedom and responsibility to shape their own development to match their professional interests and ambitions. In this way, students can create their own profile. The elective system has many advantages. Students who want to broaden their learning can take master’s courses at other universities, both in the Netherlands and abroad. Furthermore, they can take courses at other TU Delft faculties. For those students who want to increase the depth of their development as a Design Engineer, IDE offers more than 50 different courses. It is even possible for students to sign up for courses from one of the other IDE masters’ programmes. It is also possible for students to specialise in Medisign by spending at least half of their elective ECs (9), a design project and the graduation project within the Medisign theme. Curriculum Design for Interaction Candidates begin their studies either in September or in February; the starting date affects the order in which courses are taken. In either case, in the autumn semester the programme focuses on the generation of concepts and on design evaluation in the spring semester. During the second year the emphasis is on the students’ design projects and establishing, defining and completing the individual graduation project. General IDE Courses EC Design Theory and Methodology 3 Generic and Professional Skills 3 Internationalisation 3 Joint Master Project 12 Product Understanding, Use and Experience 6 Context and Conceptualisation 6 Interactive Technology Design 6 Visual Communication Design 3 Reflection on Designing 3 DfI Research Methodology 3 Exploring Interactions Project 9 Usability and User eXperience Assessment in Design Project 12 Electives (specialisations can be taken here) 18 Graduation Project 33 EC Shared IDE courses Projects Master-specific courses Graduation project Electives • 1 EC = 28 hrs study, according to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) • One academic year = 60 EC (1680 hours of study) • Total amount of credits MSc programme = 120 EC More information on all courses at: www.studyguide.tudelft.nl
Career prospects The programme prepares graduates for positions as product or interaction designers, R&D specialists, and usability consultants, as well as providing a solid foundation for work in design-centred research. Graduates of the DfI programme have been hired by leading companies like Philips, Vodafone, HP, Microsoft, TomTom, Océ, and Unilever, as well as for many smaller firms, and design and market research agencies. “You can design without limitations” I chose DfI because I aspire to be a user-centred designer. I want to develop my skills to improve the experiences people have with products. DfI teaches you how to design meaningful product experiences: researching and analysing needs and values of users, conceptualising innovative concepts, and creating and testing interactive prototypes. As an interaction designer, I enjoy the ability to communicate with the various parties involved in the project to get an overall understanding of the design challenge at hand. What I love about DfI is that it starts at the beginning of the design process where everything is still possible and you can design without limitations. For me, this creative freedom is a huge motivation - and then the process of transforming these original ideas into interactive prototypes, well that puts a smile on my face, every day! Student Mark Studer The Netherlands
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