Case Study of Design Convergence Education Program for Engineering & ICT Students

Inha University Academy of Convergence Education has developed a curriculum for the general professional course for the design convergence field in order to build the creative thinking and convergence abilities of students from the College of Engineering and College of Information Technology & Engineering. By examining domestic and foreign design convergence education cases, the course's name was selected as <Design and Innovation> and the curriculum in the department of visual communication design was developed to create a convergence curriculum which could be adapted to engineering students from the design point of view. To undertake an academic analysis on the development of engineering students' design thinking and process accessibility, this study conducts 5 processes listed below to accomplish the ultimate objective which is to propose and present a new business project featuring converged new technology and design thinking. Ÿ Establishing student teams composed of various grades and majors Ÿ Researching theoretical background of related projects Ÿ Conducting interviews with specialists of interested businesses Ÿ Design practice Ÿ Presentation through project development research The objective of developing a design convergence curriculum is based mainly on finding a method to solve open-ended problems in various ways using design thinking, and will encourage collaborative studying in various professional fields of study.