Transportation Design.
Undergraduate Courses - Barcelona.
The Undergraduate Degree in Transportation Design (240 ECTS) provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to develop mobility solutions in the broadest sense, ranging all the way from designing the inside and outside of a motorbike, car, aeroplane, train or boat to all kinds of accessories and associated services.
The course teaches transport design students a versatile, multidisciplinary and innovative approach which will allow them to come up with ideas that factor in the user, the environment, ergonomics and social value.
CREDITS: 240
DURATION: 4 YEARS
ATTENDANCE: FULL-TIME
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
Methodology.
The degree offers a formative path that teaches students to comprehend and anticipate the market exigences, interceding with business intentions and translating them in a defined project than can be manufactured. It boosts the relevance of concept, in order to foresee the trends and styles of consumption, thanks to the comprehension of market exigences and social needs.
Also, the course brings knowledge on production materials and technology in order to bring projects to life. Beyond the theoretical comprehension of the project, students focus on analysing technologies, function, ergonomics and usability.
Objectives.
The first year of this degree is focused on acquiring basic concepts of design, culture and project methods. Students learn to dare to create and communicate.
The second year is concentrated on developing one’s own creativity individually, and starting to study specialization-related tools such as: packaging, clay, Key sketch, Chartpaks felt tip pen, Alias and graphic communication.
The third year means the beginning of collaborations with companies and new, more technical and complex projects, with prototypes and real costs. Students begin to study production systems and models.
During the fourth year students study A-class surfaces, animation and video. They take a compulsory internship in a company and each one chooses a professional profile. Creative management acquires a great relevance through project management and rethinking, modifying and refining projects to respond properly to users’ and market’s needs. Lastly, the degree final project is developed in collaboration with real companies, where prototypes are produced. In successful cases, those prototypes will evolve and manufacture to be launched into the market.
Job Opportunities.
Car interior and exterior designers, motorcycles, ships, aeronautical sector, public transportation, color&trim, etc.
Subjects.
1.
PROJECT FOUNDATION I
REPRESENTATION TECHNIQUES I
PROJECT COMMUNICATION I
REPRESENTATION TECHNIQUES II
INTRODUCTION TO MARKETING
SCIENCE APPLIED TO DESIGN
COLOUR AND FORM
PROJECT FOUNDATION II
PROJECT COMMUNICATION II
TECHNICAL DRAWING I
SOCIOLOGY
VOLUME I
HISTORY OF ARTS AND DESIGN
2.
COMPUTER TOOLS FOR PRODUCTS I
ERGONOMICS PROJECT
TECHNICAL PROJECT
REPRESENTATION TECHNIQUES FOR PRODUCT DESIGN I
HISTORY OF PRODUCT DESIGN
STYLING PROJECT
VOLUME FOR PRODUCT DESIGN
MULTIDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP I
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT I
DOMESTIC PROJECT
TECHNOLOGY FOR PRODUCT DESIGN I
SEMIOTICS
PACKAGE PROJECT
TECHNICAL DRAWING FOR PRODUCT DESIGN I
3.
TWO WHEELS PROJECT
PROJECT COMMUNICATION FOR PRODUCT DESIGN I
TRENDS
NAUTICAL PROJECT
COMPUTER TOOLS FOR TRANSPORTATION DESIGN
LAB FOR PRODUCT DESIGN I
TECHNOLOGY FOR PRODUCT DESIGN II
MULTIDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOPS II
EXTERIOR PROJECT
PROJECT COMMUNICATION FOR TRANSPORTATION DESIGN I
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
MARKETING
4.
PROFESSIONAL INTERNSHIP
INTERIOR DESIGN TRANSPORTATION PROJECT
MOBILITY PROJECT
PROJECT DESIGN MANAGEMENT
PROJECT COMMUNICATION FOR PRODUCT DESIGN II
LAB FOR PRODUCT DESIGN II
MULTIDISCIPLINARY WORKSHOP III
FINAL PROJECT
Accreditation.
Our graduates and the brilliant positions of responsibility they occupy in the creative professions and enterprise tell the story of the excellence generated by IED.
It’s a success story that has contributed to the achievement of the official recognition, for the majority of IED courses, by the Ministries of Education and of Research in the countries where IED operates directly.
IED has also signed agreements with several prestigious academic institutes to offer double-branded courses at home and abroad, whose final diplomas are accredited by the partner institutions. For the 2012-2013 academic year, the institution in question is the University of Westminster in London.
IED educational program is based on course credits (CF) according to the most advanced european institutions of this area.
