Industrial Design

Year 1: Understanding

Your first year experience is designed to prepare your mind for everything that follows. The courses you take will prepare you to think critically, communicate creatively, and question everything.

Featured Courses:

• ART 151 – Drawing I
• ART 142 – Industrial Design Principles
• ART 162 – Sculpture I

Year 2: New Approaches

As a sophomore, you’ll declare your major and select your mentor. But that’s just the start of it. You’ll also be asked to choose a minor from an alternate discipline to keep your perspectives fresh and your mind wide open.

Featured courses:

• ART 242 – Materials & Fabrication
• ART 243 – Industrial Design Forms
• COMM 125 – Media and Culture

Year 3: Delving Deeper

As you delve deeper and take on a Junior Seminar, you’ll develop an even more eloquent understanding of your chosen fields. And you’ll begin to focus on improving your research skills and rhetorical ability in preparation for your Senior Comp.

Featured Courses

• ART 580 – Junior Seminar
• ART 287 – Art at the Intersection of Science and Culture
• CMPSC 304 – Robotic Agents

Year 4: The Comp

One of the accomplishments our alumni are most proud of is their Senior Comp. Every Allegheny student must research, propose, create, and defend an original creative or critical project. You’ll be paired with a mentor throughout the project, and the experience will prepare you well for any step you take after graduation.

Featured Courses

• ID 600 – Senior Project I
• ID 610 – Senior Project II
• ENVSC 427 – Culture, Power, Environment