Program Educational Objectives (PEOs)1. Develop Design Thinking: Develop ‘Design Thinking’ and to be able to apply it to complex real life design problems.
2. Design knowledge and Skills: Apply design related knowledge and skills to solve complex design problems.
3. Problem analysis: Identify, formulate, review research literature and other tools of analysis to analyze complex design problems reaching substantiated conclusions using design thinking
4. Design solutions: Design solutions for complex problems and design systems, components or processes that meet the specified needs with appropriate consideration for the public health and safety, and the cultural, societal, and environmental considerations. To engage in consultancy and work towards generating intellectual property rights.
5. Conduct investigations of complex problems: Use research-based knowledge and design research methods including design of experiments, analysis and interpretation of data, and synthesis of the information to provide valid conclusions.
6. Contemporary tool usage: Apply appropriate techniques, resources, and to be able to use latest design and digital tools.
7. The Designer and society: Apply reasoning informed by the contextual and theoretical knowledge to assess societal, health, safety, legal and cultural issues and the consequent responsibilities relevant to the professional design practice.
8. Environment and sustainability: Understand the impact of the professional design solutions in societal and environmental contexts, and demonstrate the knowledge of, and need for sustainable design.
9. Ethics: Apply ethical principles and commit to professional ethics and responsibilities and norms of the design practice.
10. Individual and teamwork: Function effectively as an individual, and as a member or leader in diverse teams, and in multidisciplinary settings.
11. Communication: Communicate effectively on complex design activities with the design community and with society at large, such as, being able to comprehend and write effective reports and design documentation, make effective presentations, and give and receive clear instructions. Showcasing department’s design work to a wider audience including design community and the world.
12. Lifelong learning: Recognize the need for, and have the preparation and ability to engage in independent and life-long learning in the broadest context of technological, social and cultural change.
