IDSA publishes a selection of peer-reviewed academic education papers each year. These are collected during a community-wide open call period when design educators and practitioners submit materials for review by a group of judges serving on IDSA’s Academic Jury. The program also helps provide content for the annual Education Symposium, where some authors are invited to present their work from the stage to a live audience. To view the full Education Papers jury please visit meet the jury page.
Translating Visual Imagery Into Words
On a recent, five-day field trip, junior-level industrial design students met articulate design professionals who unknowingly demonstrated their ability to communicate effectively with process partners across multiple disciplines. These professional designers, with their honed communication skills, enabled design in
Author: Richard Fry
Company / School: Brigham Young University
- 2018
- Education Symposium Theme: Design For ____
Due to financial concerns and the shifting demographic of learners, in many institutions, three of the hallmarks of studio pedagogy, small course sizes, dedicated unique learning spaces and extended course-meeting times, are quickly eroding. The new reality for many
Author: Lisa Hammershaimb
Company / School: Independence University
- 2018
- Education Symposium Theme: Design For ____
How Different Project Timelines Develop Students’ Proficiency In The Design Process
The Integrated Product Design Programs (IPD) at the University of Pennsylvania teach students from design, engineering, and business backgrounds a human-centered design process to create new products and experiences. The diverse backgrounds of students in the program enable students
Author: Sarah Rottenberg
Company / School: University of Pennsylvania
- 2018
- Education Symposium Theme: Design For ____
Electric Assisted Kick-scooter Design
In early 2015, five international universities registered their interest in participating in a competition that would focus on solutions exploring electric assisted kick-scooters with a focus on an adult customer. The desire to speed up walking with a simple
Author: Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness, Reinhart Butter, Tom Philipps, Christian Scholz, Jan Vietze, Juan Yinghao, Peter Veto
Company / School: Iowa State University, The Ohio State University, University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin, Shih-Chien University, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design
- 2018
- Education Symposium Theme: Design For ____
In today’s information age, we are witnessing the collision of social media, internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence, virtual-, augmented- and mixed- reality (VR, AR, MR). Wearable computing technology is capable of processing relevant, large
Author: Ralf Schneider
Company / School: Syracuse University
- 2018
- Education Symposium Theme: Design For ____
Facilitating New Life For The Post-life Of Things
We are quite good at discussing sustainability and social practice in their ideal, in visioning how things could be, sometimes framed narrowly as how things ‘should be’, but the really messy bits of change involve navigating complex systems, of
Author: Theunis Snyman / Craig Badke
Company / School: Emily Carr University of Art and Design
- 2018
- Education Symposium Theme: Design For ____
Sketchnoting, Breaking The Rules
In today’s world, the word “Design Thinking” has proliferated into a wide range of processes. As design’s popularity grows, one must wonder “How can we make it more adaptable into the overall process?” Before getting into how it can
Author: Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness, Teddy Lu
Company / School: Iowa State University, Purdue University
- 2018
- Education Symposium Theme: Design For ____
Interactive products and wearable technologies have become prominent in the field of Industrial Design (ID). ID education has adapted to this shift by integrating information and communication technologies (ICTs), human-computer interaction (HCI), and interactive product design criteria into the
Author: Yaling Liu, Wei Wang, Stephen Eick
Company / School: Georgia Institute of Technology
- 2018
- Paper Type: Case Study
- Education Symposium Theme: Design For ____
An Industrial Design Collaboration With Scientific Researchers
It is well known that research universities provide fertile ground for interdisciplinary work between science, engineering, design and other fields. Specifically, in industrial design, faculty and students have the opportunity to translate new discoveries and technologies into useful inventions-
Author: Brook Kennedy, Jonathan Boreyko, Weiwei Shi, Mark Anderson, Josh Tulkoff, Tom Van der Sloot
Company / School: Virginia Tech
- 2018
- Paper Type: Case Study
- Education Symposium Theme: Design For ____
The education mission of college and university is multifaceted – on the instructional side, the design program aims to deliver rich, broad range formal foundational, aesthetic and analytical knowledge and skills – while ensuring that student success rate is
Author: Swati Chopra, Dr. Claudia Rebola, Braden Trauth, Micheal Roller
Company / School: University of Cincinnati
- 2018
- Paper Type: Case Study
- Education Symposium Theme: Design For ____