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The Graduate Design Program is focused on educating Masters students through hands-on design learning and industry-sponsored projects. The cornerstone of this program is a three-semester sequence of courses that begin in January, and culminates the following year in May. The first course in this sequence is Advanced Product Design (APD). APD is a studio class that focuses on consumer product design and helps equip students with the tools necessary to complete the following, two-semester Graduate Product Design (GPD). GPD is a projects course that meets formally once per week, but is geared towards teams of students completing a project that is industry sponsored. In GPD, the teams are composed of 3-4 students per team, the team has access to funds from the sponsoring company, and regularly meets with a mentor from the sponsoring company and a faculty advisor.
The Graduate Design Program began in January, 2010. Five design faculty members in the Department of Mechanical Engineering are currently working to continuously improve, and expand, the Graduate Design Program.
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