Education
Designing with Emerging Markets: Education The following part of this publication will showcase a selection of projects within the framework of Design with Emerging Markets (DEM) covering design of both products and services. These projects are executed by students of and supervised by the academic staff of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) of the Delft University of Technology (DUT). Assignments for these projects are mostly from external organizations, like entrepreneurs, NGO’s, etc. IDE offers at present one bachelor program (3 years), three master programs (2 years) and a PhD program (4 years). The currently offered master programs are Integrated Product Design (IPD), Design for Interaction (DfI), and Strategic Product Design (SPD). At present around 2000 students are enrolled at IDE. During the last years the opportunities for IDE students to dedicate a (considerable) part of their curriculum to DEM related design and research projects have increased. In 2003 only one elective course for a limited group of students (25) was offered to explore the DEM context. Gradually new courses have been developed and existing courses have been adapted to provide the IDE students the opportunity to build DEM capabilities as well as to practice them in a real DEM setting. Currently six courses are being offered in which DEMprojects can be executed: Final Graduation Project, Integral Design Project, Project Advanced Products,
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