Industrial

What is it?

The undergraduate degree in industrial design stimulates artistic, craft and trade practices applicable in different spaces and circumstances. This objective is met by an extensive curriculum that strives to enable the student to understand both the history of design and the social contexts that the production culture has gone through, understanding thus the current context and establishing future trends. We also want to invite students to get acquainted with the different existing production processes, as well as with the most widely used materials for creating objects and spaces. The expression courses help the students to develop their visual skills and the presentation of their ideas. All this is carried out following the central axis of the workshop, where students, supported by a solid methodology, use research, analysis, and conceptualization tools to develop their proposals for addressing the problems of environments that gradually increase their complexity.

Design is a discipline centered on identifying and solving indefinite communication problems* between clients and users. This is achieved through systematic processes that enable them to structure and pose the most pertinent decision and the most adequate arguments or premises for each circumstance. Our alumni contribute to the satisfaction of the needs of our social reality responsibly, creatively, with initiative and with a sustainable approach.

“Therefore we look for people who: Like art and culture, want to communicate ideas through drawing, models, painting, photography, films and any other visual medium through a collaborative work with people of their profession and other that can complement him."

Thus, we look for:

Proactive persons that like art and culture; that are interested in communicating ideas through drawing, models, painting, photography, films, and any other visual media through collaborative work with people within the profession and others complementary.

The skills that we suggest being developed for the admission profile are the ability to express yourself both visually and verbally; the ability for handling materials and their production processes. You should have critical-thinking, analysis, and teamwork abilities, as well as skills for using technology, interest in electronics, curiosity about programming, and arithmetical and geometrical reasoning. You should be interested in improving the conditions of your context and carrying out high social impact proposals.

What distinguishes us?

The Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana was founded with the intention of addressing social problems and improving the conditions of the context. The Azcapotzalco campus is set in an industrial zone where it was necessary to form professionals that would address industrial demands and that would propose improvements to the social fabric of the zone. The Division of Sciences and Arts for Design (CyAD) emerges with the vision of being the fourth knowledge area that synthesizes science and humanities from an artistic dimension with a balance between thinking and doing. Think first, during, and after developing proposals. Multidisciplinary work among designers, communicators, filmmakers, engineers, theorists, and technicians gives us the opportunity to reflect on the design and its goals. We have a highly experienced and trained faculty and technical staff. We also have the necessary facilities and equipment for understanding production processes and their implementation.

As UAM Azcapotzalco alumni with an undergraduate degree in Industrial Design, you will be capable of practicing strategic and comprehensive thinking. You will have the knowledge to work with materials, tools, and technology, considering needs, wishes, and hopes, knowing that you work with and for other persons. You will have a series of tools that will help you research and analyze cases, and that will trigger your creativity when facing problems. You will have the ability to orchestrate solutions and establish systemic strategies that will ensure the addition of value in organizations and communities.

You will develop a high ethical, social and environmental conscience. You will use suitable design and communication codes (lexical, historical, cultural, and social) for those who you are designing for, even when they speak a language other than Spanish.

You will also develop responsibility and the capability to keep updated after you graduate. You will be able to work in private, public firms, or even your own company, in institutions, or social organizations.

Propuesta de sistema recolector y filtrado de agua de lluvia

Propuesta de recolector de agua de lluvia

Propuesta de vehículo para transporte de personas y silla de ruedas

Learn more about these projects and others by visiting our page: expo.cyad.online

How is Industrial Design learned?

What is currently known as Design Thinking is what we have always done and we continue to work based on it. The design workshop is the backbone of the program. In this workshop, projects centered on satisfying real needs of human beings are developed, striving for innovative solutions and processes, through collaborative and iterative work in order to reach socially, economically and environmentally viable solutions. Based on theoretical, methodological, historical and technical knowledge, we question, propose, experiment, demonstrate, complement and give results.

Curricula

"Introduce the students to the general field of design so they can understand itsmain characteristics, conditioning and development possibilities, and distinguishthe programs offered by the Division from one another."

FIRST QUARTER	SECOND QUARTER
Theoretical Fundamentals of Design I	Theoretical Fundamentals of Design II
Culture and Design I	Culture and Design II
Basic Language	Design Systems
Formal Expression I	Formal Expression II
Descriptive Geometry I	Descriptive Geometry II
Reasoning and Symbolic Logic I	Reasoning and Symbolic Logic II

Students must acquire basic theoretical, methodological and technical knowledge of their profession and develop the necessary skills to integrate them in the solution of specific problems through the systematic application of the design process."

THIRD QUARTER	FOURTH QUARTER
Introduction to Industrial Design Theory	Form Analysis
Design Processes	Methods and Techniques for Design I
Product Design I	Product Design II
Introduction to Manufacturing	Fibrous Materials
Creative Visualization I	Creative Visualization II
Basic Ergonomics	Product Ergonomics

FIFTH QUARTER

Social Theory of Industrial Design

Methods and Techniques for Design II

Product Design III

Metallic Materials

Technical Industrial Drawing

Physics Applied to Design

"Students must apply the General Model of the Design Process in the analysis, assessment and solution of the social needs present in different cultural contexts of the country."

SIXTH QUARTER	SEVENTH QUARTER	EIGHTH QUARTER
Sustainable design	Contemporary trends in industrial design	Industrial Design Outlook
History of Industrial Design I	Project Organization II	History of Industrial Design II
Project Organization I	Product Development I	Project Organization III
Product Design IV	Clays and Stone Materials	Product Development II
Plastic Materials	Project Presentation	Costs in Industrial Design
Digital planimetry and 3D modeling	Bionics
Structures Analysis and Design

NINTH QUARTER

Semiotics

Product Development III

Design for Production

Marketing

"Students must apply the acquired knowledge in the previous courses in order to comprehensively and systematically develop socially relevant design projects, using the General Model of the Design Process."

TENTH QUARTER	ELEVENTH QUARTER
Integral Products Development I	Integral Products Development II
Terminal Option Topics I	Terminal Option Topics II
Project Planning and Management	Professional Internship in Industrial Design

TWELFTH QUARTER

Integral Products Development III

Terminal Option Topics III

Professional Promotion of Industrial Design

Product Evaluation	Geometry for Design
Statistics for Designers	Research and Design
Ecodesign	Identification and Selection of New Materials
Legal Aspects and Regulation	Digital Design for Production
Quality	Tool Design for Production
Normalization and Standardization	Packaging Design
Design and Innovation	Writing and Scientific Documentation
Production Planning	Ergonomics at Work
Creativity for Design

Curricula Map

The graduate of Industrial Design will have:

- Faculty to issue some value judgment regarding art, science and culture.

- Aptitude to detect the needs of the user, evaluate strategies and propose design solutions.

- Competence to base the construction of their ideas through analysis, synthesis and criticism.

- Skill to represent your ideas through different languages and techniques of design.

- Spatial organization in different dimensions.

- Ability to generate products and services based on a methodology of the discipline.

- Domain in the use and application of communication languages.

- - Ability to give integral solutions to industrial design problems.

- Critical awareness about the importance of interdisciplinarity in the industrial design activity.

- Ability to exercise their profession in their own companies, public, private, institutions and social organizations.

- Discipline to stay updated with respect to their profession.

- Skill to plan and manage the techniques and production processes of industrial design products.

- Ability to understand and use the historical, cultural and social codes of those for whom it is designed.

- Reading comprehension of a second language different from Spanish.

Where can you work?

There are ever-growing work opportunities for industrial designers. These have gone from concrete and technical projects to abstract social projects and public policy proposals. A great number of students work on designing and manufacturing furniture, stands and POPs, kitchens, ceramics, and plastic products.

The design process has been demonstrated to be a trigger for innovation in companies, in sectors like identifying business models, the internal configuration, the design of services, the exploration of new markets, the strengthening of identity, and the link with communities. Design students have a problem-solving profile.

The number of students that graduate and generate jobs rather than look for a job is constantly growing. Designers have the ability to orchestrate solutions and add value to government entities, non-profit organizations, associations, consultants, and companies.