7. RECOGNITION Research Papers
Presidential Merit (Silver)
2 Presidential Awards
4 Outstanding Achievement Awards
6 Best Paper Awards
2 International Grand Prizes
Designer of the Year
Excellent Lecture Award
Good Design Award
Best Industrial Designer Award
“1st in research paper publication
in Korea” 12 International Design Competition Awards
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11. HOW DO WE TEACH?
CONVERGENT DESIGN EDUCATION AT ID KAIST
12. KEY FEATURES Interdisciplinary Program
Positioning of IDKAIST Education since 1986
Subjective (Symbolic)
Humanities Art
Traditional
Design School
Analytic Synthetic
(Understand) (Make)
Science Engineering
Objective (Real)
Adopted from Dublin’s model of academic disciplines
13. KEY FEATURES ID KAIST’s vision
Mission Statement:
“Shape the Future: Design for a Better Life”
Goal: World top 10 design school by 2017
Objectives:
• Cultivating designers active in the front end of innovation
• Generating integrated design knowledge
• Becoming a leading research-oriented design education program
14. KEY FEATURES Students
BSc students (40 per year)
• Many from science high school (good at math and science)
• Students graduated from a high school abroad.
• International students
• They choose their major in the second year when they complete basic science
and engineering courses.
MSc Students (15-20 per year)
• Most of them are IDKAIST undergraduates
• A few from other design schools (Hongik Univ. Korea National Univ. of Arts,
Handong Univ., Seoul Univ., Parsons, Pratt, RISD ..)
• Exchange students from TUDelft
PhD Students (5-10 per year)
• Most of them are IDKAIST graduates
• A few from other domestic and international universities
15. KEY FEATURES Learning Activities
Generation of original design knowledge & skills
Course Work (10-20%)
Research Projects in Labs (20-50%)
PhD Thesis Work (30-50%)
Mastery of existing and emerging design
knowledge & skills
MSc Course Work (30-40%)
Research Projects in Labs (30-40%)
Dissertation Work (30-40%)
Experience of and familiarity with
existing design knowledge & skills
BSc Course Work (70-90%)
Individual Research (10-20%)
Graduation Project (10-20%)
16. KEY FEATURES Undergraduate Program - Structure
Graduation Project
Internship / Exchange Student Program
Design for the Real World, Design Business, URP
Design Studio Courses (Fundamentals, Technology and Production,
Meeting Marketing Needs, User Centered System Integration)
New Human Business
Technology Centered Innovation
Fusion Design • Design
• CAD Methodology
• Physical • Professional
• Human Factors Practice
• Computing
• Interface Design • New Product
• Design
Engineering Development
Design Tools and Methods
CAD, Digital Design Graphics, Photography
Design Basics (Visual Language, Creative Thinking)
2D, 3D Design, Presentation Techniques, Creativity and Visual Language
18. KEY FEATURES Undergraduate Program - Degree Project
• About 10 month individual design project combined with
‐ Two essential courses (Integrated design)
‐ Individual study
‐ Undergraduate thesis project
• Capstone project advised by multiple professors from other engineering departments.
• International and domestic exhibitions from October to December.
19. KEY FEATURES Postgraduate Program - Example MSc Dissertation
Research MSc
• Effect of levels of automation on emotional experience in
intelligent products
• A programming toolkit for prototyping interactive products
• Product personification method for ideation of interaction design
• The role of design in the integration of Product-Service System
Project MSc
• Kinetic interaction design based on magnetism
• Inflated roly-poly: designing an inflatable display enticing physical
interaction
• CoLingual: Development of mobile location-based crowdsourcing
language translation and learning service
International presentations (conference papers, exhibitions, design
awards) are encouraged.
20. KEY FEATURES Postgraduate Program - Ph.D. Thesis
Requirements
• Generation of original design knowledge
• Publications of top international design journals
Examples
• Choi (2011) The effects of anthropomorphism on product design
• Park (2011) New typology and strategic model of design
promotion
21. Q+A
SHAPING THE FUTURE
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