The School of Industrial Design of the ITCR graduates professionals that will be able to rationalize and combine functional, formal and perceptive aspects of industrial and consumption products. These professionals are able to create designs that adequately respond to the needs of the national industry and to the socio-economical characteristics of producers and users. Such designs should be environmentally friendly and make good use of the advantages that the country offers.
Therefore, an industrial designer is a professional that can model products and human needs combining functionality, productivity, economy and the environment. An industrial designer models needs because its work affects the consumption habits of people. Graduates have different options to be part of the national production market:
Producer
Company Consultant
Independent Consultant
Professor in related areas
Manager
Researcher
The national and world context
Competitiveness is forcing industries to improve their organizational, production and programmatic quality as well as to include new technologies to their processes, specially in industries related with the consumption of products, which result from social, economical and environmental needs. The social implications of such processes makes the education of future industrial designers critical.
One of the most important challenges that a consumption society faces is to combine the social and economical needs with the environmental ones. These needs are established the industrial world and economical interests and by the effect that massive production processes and demographic increase have on the environment. Massive production processes and population provoke high consumption and thus pollute the environment, contribute to deforestation, water resource pollution, global warming and waste generation.
Such panorama faces an industrial designer that makes it mandatory to be able to have a dynamic role in all socio-economical events affecting products, their life cycle, re-utilization and transformation. It is then necessary to prepare professionals with an environmental awareness and capable of working in multidisciplinary jobs, that is able to work with people form other fields and with an environmental awareness.
Within this context, the School of industrial design should prepare qualified people that can globally solve design problems. This complex field requires graduates to use tools that ensure the adequate and precise development of his work. With this in mind, the School has the appropriate infrastructure and human resources to help students become competitive designers.
Academic School Director: Ph.D.. Franklin Hernández Castro
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