The department emphasizes interdisciplinary teamwork through group-based instruction, design family projects, and competition exhibitions to cultivate students' ability to collaborate in teams. Students are required to actively participate in group discussions, listen to others' opinions, follow group decisions, and provide constructive feedback to complete assigned tasks. They must integrate diverse viewpoints, coordinate task distribution, show responsibility, work independently, and communicate effectively to accomplish competition and exhibition activities together.
2.Design Communication Skills
Through intensive presentation training and design competition courses, the department fosters students' design communication skills. Students must express design concepts through hand-drawn sketches, detailed drawings, and models, integrating verbal, written, visual, and model representations to convey design thinking clearly and smoothly. They must apply 2D and 3D design software to create works, draft engineering drawings, and convert design concepts into 3D exploded component diagrams. Additionally, students are expected to collaborate across disciplines, working with students from other departments or external manufacturers to complete design projects.
3.Aesthetic and Form Skills
The department is committed to developing students' ability to design product appearance, color, and material treatment, ensuring they can clearly express the functionality and semantics of forms while maintaining aesthetic quality. Students are required to apply basic knowledge of form, color, and materials in their designs to enhance the visual appeal of products and understand the functionality and semantics of forms. Their designs must clearly communicate form-related functions and semantics, applying principles of product form to evaluate the aesthetics of objects.
4.Application of Scientific and Engineering Knowledge
Product design is user-centered and involves various technological knowledge during the design process. Students must understand material properties applicable to product design, human factors, mechanisms, and manufacturing processes, applying this knowledge to design projects. They are also required to effectively gather scientific knowledge relevant to their design projects and transform it into new product concepts, integrating consumer behavior, human factors, and technology to propose design solutions that align with future trends.
5.Design Management and Project Planning
Through courses such as special topics research, advanced product design, marketing, and design research methods, the department develops students' design management and project planning skills. Students must apply common design methods in their projects, using observation, interviews, and surveys to identify user needs, understanding market, marketing, and entrepreneurship knowledge, and integrating product planning, design, manufacturing, and marketing knowledge into their projects. They are required to analyze the differences between existing products and future trends, propose forward-looking project plans, and effectively manage project execution to ensure quality outcomes.
6.Creative Problem-Solving
Through special project production, participation in invention and design competitions, and creativity cultivation courses, the department nurtures students' creativity. Students must observe trends, identify user needs, and brainstorm multiple solutions to problems, stepping outside conventional frameworks to propose innovative solutions. Their design proposals must include detailed implementation steps, and they must objectively evaluate multiple solutions to select the best one. Additionally, students are encouraged to identify industry or societal problems and actively seek external resources to solve them.
7.Global Perspective and Understanding of Local Culture
The department emphasizes both a global perspective and an understanding of local culture, improving the English learning environment and integrating industry-academia cooperation into teaching. Students must communicate in basic English with foreign nationals, read English media to acquire design knowledge, write English design boards, and understand at least one distinctive local culture. Their product designs must creatively and accurately incorporate elements of local culture, while also understanding the international marketing knowledge of local culture.
