Integrate and Implement

In this final studio, students embark on a semester-long project to collaboratively develop their proposal into a proven, credible product implementation plan. These group-based, research-driven design engineering projects serve to illuminate skills and professional ambitions. They become the basis for building portfolios and integrate prior components of the program into a coherent whole. To start, the previously completed project proposal is developed for execution. It is refined to include further details such as project planning, professional audience and advisor identification, and budgeting. The remaining self-directed process will go on to include client interactions, user and market research, collaborative practice, realization strategies, prototyping and testing, and methods to “tell the story” of how the artifacts developed fit in the world.