The Industrial Design Program has rich history of involving students and corporations in realistic design projects within the educational environment. Known as sponsored studios, these projects are carefully programmed to teach about the collaborative aspects of product development and offer realistic education about the client, market and design service. Students benefit greatly from participating in realistic design projects that has the presence of a client and the project guided by practical design considerations. For the corporate sponsor, it is an opportunity to involve a group of students in investigating a design problem that requires research, development and innovative thinking. Both upper level undergraduate students and graduate students participate in sponsored projects. Even though the sponsored projects tend to be semester long, they can be developed for shorter duration and with a specific focus on research, design investigation and testing. The results of the sponsored studio are rich and provide great benefit to corporate sponsors and the Industrial Design Program.

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All work executed in the College becomes the property of the College and will be retained or returned at the discretion of the faculty. The faculty also reserves the right to refuse credit for any project executed outside the precincts of the College or otherwise executed without proper coordination with the instructor.