ASSETS OF THE STUDY PROGRAMME

MULTIPERSPECTIVISM We teach our students to be critical professionals who are able to work in team. We teach them the essential skills to be creative and solution-oriented. In this programme, there are a lot of collaborations between students and teachers of other disciplines in order to become critical and to enhance collaboration in a transdisciplinary context.

UNIQUE STUDY PROGRAMME IN FLANDERS The engineering programme in Industrial Design Engineering Technology is unique in Flanders. The educational environment stimulates students to design in an independent and critical way. There is special attention for designerly learning and materialisation. At UGent Campus Kortrijk there is a sophisticated design infrastructure in the Industrial Design Center. This infrastructure is part of the Ghent Design Factory, and together with the locations of The Foundry, De Krook and P3Lab it forms the ideal biosphere for a creative, designerly and entrepreneurial innovation.

APPLICATION-FOCUSED & INDUSTRY CONTACTS Students work, independent or in group, on diverse design projects in close collaboration with industry, as the programme is application oriented. More than 80% of the master theses are in collaboration with industrial partners. Via a thorough alumini-network and organisations such as Design Region Kortrijk and VOKA, there is an obvious anchoring with local industries. Also, this programma has a strong international network.

CREATIVE & ENTREPRENEURIAL Students are stimulated to design in an uncertain and creative context, which has specific attention for entrepreneurship throughout all learning lines. Also there is a dedicated learning line which has special attention for entrepreneurship.

INTEGRATION THEORY & PRACTICE The educational programma consists of a great amount of seminars, workshops and practica, at which theoretical knowledge from the lectures is trained in our laboratories and practicum rooms. Here, we train the critical thinking and problemsolving-attitude of our students and we teach them the latest technological advances. Thus, problem-based learning is at the core of many design and engineering courses.

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