Semester 1 Introduction to IDE Welcome to the Industrial Design Engineering’s (IDE) bachelor’s programme. In the first design project you start by doing smaller assignments to learn about various aspects within the field of design. Once these are completed, you design a product set within clearly defined boundaries. In courses that run parallel to this, you learn the basics of the three pillars of design – people, organisations, and technology. Additionally, you get to see how design is viewed in our faculty, what our visions are, and how complex the field of design has become. By framing the domains, the complex field of design becomes manageable. The more you learn, the more you see that these three pillars are interconnected.