Master Education Plan

Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) offers a Master of Science programme of two years (120 EC). The programme has a common core supplemented with three specialization areas (tracks), Design & Styling (D&S), Management of Product Development (MPD) and Emerging Technology Design (ETD). Furthermore, IDE and ME (Mechanical Engineering) jointly offer the MSc program Industrial Design and Manufacturing (IDM) (www.idm.utwente.nl).

Moreover, the faculty is preparing a track ‘’Building Systems Design’’ (BSD), positioned within IDE and strongly supported by the Construction Building group.

The IDE master programme consists of theory courses and projects (together 75 EC) and a master graduation assignment (45 EC).
Typically, one-third of the courses are compulsory for all IDE students, while about another one-third is compulsory for the students of the particular track. The other courses are chosen with regard to the ambitions of the student and the theme of the graduation assignment.
The co-coordinator of the track approves the student’s program after a careful check of its coherence and depth. Thereafter the programme is submitted to the Examination Committee for a final approval. After approval the student is admissible to the courses.
The graduation assignment is an individual project with a focus on either design or on research. The assignment can be undertaken in one of the university’s laboratories or externally in a company or in a design firm. The graduation projects give students the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities in applying and integrating their knowledge and skills acquired during the preceding years at a master’s of science level.
Further details are available on the homepage of Industrial Design Engineering.
(Be aware that in Dutch IDE is abbreviated as IO.)