Master of Industrial Design (MID)

The Master of Industrial Design (MID) program at the College of Design is a human-centered discipline that questions existing boundaries and makes connections among diverse domains. The program challenges students to develop the ability to recognize and define problems in new ways, and find opportunities others might have missed or undervalued. Iowa State's 60-credit Master of Industrial Design (MID) emphasizes a creative problem-solving based curriculum rooted in design thinking methodologies. Students will be able to explore their interests in the broad and expanding field integrating strategic and creative, as well as critical and systems thinking frameworks, exploring innovation solutions for the [wicked] problems of our times. Industrial Design is a human-centered discipline that questions existing boundaries and makes connections among diverse domains. Therefore, the program challenges students to develop the ability to recognize and define problems in new ways, and then find opportunities others might have missed or undervalued. Through a strategic and creative problem-solving process, Industrial Design tries to reimagine how we should go about developing innovative, sustainable and durable solutions for people and society at large that genuinely lead to better quality of life and better futures. The MID program actively connects with other knowledge domains and disciplines, to research how things are with the drive to propose how they ought to be. This is achieved through the challenging balance between critical and creative ways of thinking [and working] when devising novel, useful and meaningful artifacts, services, systems, and experiences.

4 year Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent). Academic Records/Transcripts. Minimum 3.0 GPA (Program may alter requirement).