BA Curriculum Structure
General Education
Timetable
Unrestricted Electives
Specialisations
BA Industrial Design (Hons) undergraduates from Cohort AY2021/2022 onwards can pursue interests in any of the following areas of Specialisations:
Product Innovation
Develops innovators who possess design-led thinking and relevant creative skills that are synthesised with engineering or technology. These designers apply their creativity to user and business focused benefits through design thinking, while achieving commercial success through developing tangible or virtual products.
Social & Service Transformation
Develops creators to meet the growing needs of innovation focused organisations and service economies, tackling complex social problems and fluid challenges through insightful problem framing, effective research investigations, and visual facilitations. The over-arching goal is to develop user-centred solutions through co-creative approaches.
Design Futures & Critical Inquiry
Develops empathetic leaders of innovation who enhance the human experience through exploration and provocation. This design visionary will project speculative futures that machines cannot envision through disruptive thinking and demonstrate high-level inquisitiveness about design ethics, appropriateness, and intended and unintended consequences.
Requirements for the Specialisation (20 units)
- Complete a compulsory course ID4121 Project Research (4 units) in the area of specialisation.
- Complete a compulsory course ID4106 Design Thesis Project (12 units) in the area of specialisation.
- Complete one (1) elective course (4 units) from the basket of courses listed in the table below related to the area of specialisation.
| Specialisations | Elective Modules |
| Product Innovation | ID3125 Colours, Materials & Finishing (4 units) ID2122 Ecodesign & Sustainability (4 units) ID2114 The Appreciation of Wood Craft (4 units) |
| Social & Service Transformation | ID3126 Motion Design (4 units) |
| Design Futures & Critical Inquiry | ID3124 Creative Communication & Design Argumentation (4 units) ID2115 Digital Sketching & Painting (4 units) |
The basket of elective courses (4 units each) consists of courses that support each area of specialisation. Students are also allowed to select electives outside the table after seeking advice from the Final Year Thesis supervisor in the specialisation.
Internship Programmes
Internship programmes offer opportunities to students to enhance their learning while gaining valuable work and industry knowledge and skills. The credit-bearing internship programmes offered are listed below:
Design Internship (4 units)
Work Experience Internship (4 units)
Special Studies (14 units)
Find out more here on the Internship Programmes.
Awards and Prizes
Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal
- Best Graduate throughout the course of study
- For more information about the award, please visit here
Milton Tan Medal & Prize
- Highest mark for ID4105 Design Platform 4
NUS-JTC Medal and Prize (Design) for Industrial Design
- Submitted the best design project addressing the theme of innovation in the design of industrial facilities and infrastructure, and
- Obtained the highest Cumulative Average Point (CAP), in the event that there is more than one deserving candidate
College of Design and Engineering Dean's List
- Celebrates the scholastic accomplishments of students who rank within the top 5% of their cohorts at the end of each semester (additional conditions may apply)
- Once on the Dean’s List for any semester, academic transcript will reflect this as part of record with the school
The Reppard and Dorothy Stone Communication Merit Award
- An annual award for a third year student who consistently develops meritorious work in the area of Communication Design
NUS IP Policy
As University Members, students are subjected to the NUS IP Policy. In summary, the University recognises a student’s ownership of copyright to his/her thesis or dissertation, however, where such thesis, dissertation or design works is submitted to the University to meet course requirements, any intellectual property subsisting therein and any research data or database contained therein, and the physical media on which such thesis or dissertation was recorded, stored or printed, belong to the University.
The student will be recognised as the author of the form of expression in his/her Authored Work (as defined in the NUS IP Policy), and University reserves the right to require the student to assign his copyright in the Authored Work for the purposes of commercialising the Authored Work and the student shall take such action as required to complete the assignment provided that the assignment of copyright contains terms which will enable the student to retain the right to reproduce the text of his Authored Work to ensure that his career benefit from publishing the results of the work. If the Authored Work or any Intellectual property subsisting therein is commercialised by University, the provisions on revenue-sharing in the NUS IP Policy (section H) shall apply.
For more information about the NUS IP Policy (in particular sections E and F), please visit here.