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The graduate first-year transportation design experience is divided into two semester-length studios: one interior-focused, one exterior-focused. Students taking an interior-focused studio in the fall semester will then take an exterior focused studio in the winter semester, and vice versa. In both interior and exterior studios, students will be encouraged to pursue a user-center design approach. Incoming graduate transportation design students will be introduced to rendering and modeling techniques integral to the transportation design process. Course content may be reinforced through field trips to local design studios and factories. Students prepare a comprehensive presentation at the end of semester which includes critical self-assessment and reflection of their developmental strengths and needs.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

This course will focus on the examination of brand identity and competitive market analysis to further the development of an original vehicle concept. Target user research will be conducted to assess specific needs and wants as well as to establish contextual scenarios that will help inform design criteria. This studio’s project brief can be either interior or exterior focused and students are encouraged to tailor this choice towards the specialty they hope to pursue professionally. This course will result in a final exterior or interior design executed as a technical digital 3D model data set capable of further engineering assessment fabrication and/or animation.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: GRT 602