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Industrial Designers traditionally use models to visualize and test designs. As fabrication processes shift from analog shop equipment to digital technologies, ID education must adjust curriculums. As a result, graduates often have gaps in their training. Accordingly, the School of Industrial Design at Georgia Tech. created a new course to bridge this gap between digital and traditional modelmaking.
This course has consistently featured the project that is the focus of this paper. Recently, a competition was leveraged so that project deliverables would satisfy the entry requirements while the prizes could add value to successful project completion.
The results of this most recent project were noticeably improved. Clearly leveraging the competition motivated students and enhanced the learning goals inherent in the project. Through a comparison of the results of this project over multiple semesters, it will be shown that competitions can serve as a useful motivational element in undergraduate design education.
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Wilson, W., Choi, Y.M. (2020). Leveraging Design Competitions to Enhance Learning Goals and Student Motivation Within a Studio Project. In: Di Bucchianico, G., Shin, C., Shim, S., Fukuda, S., Montagna, G., Carvalho, C. (eds) Advances in Industrial Design. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51194-4_34
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