Module Code - Title:
CE4023
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DESIGN STUDIO 1
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
The students are introduced to the design process. Assignments are designed to promote synthesis of the various ideas, tools and skills developed in other modules and to expand these skills further using research in a teamwork context. In this semester greater emphasis is placed on research and the assigned tasks will reflect this. A greater degree of rigour will be demanded in the approach to making decisions.
The module is 100% continually assessed and non-repeatable.
The key objectives are to learn by experience:
Research;
Rigour;
Presentation;
The design process;
Teamwork.
Syllabus:
Introduction to research methods and resources. Design as an iterative and creative process subject to constraints. Synthesis of ideas and skills from a wide variety of other modules in a design task. Presentation for critique and debate of research results and proposals.
Assignments may include structural or infrastructural themes. Subject matter from other relevant modules is integrated to analyse and solve a problem.
Presentation skills will concentrate on manual sketching and drawing, and using simple models in multiple verbal presentations. Report writing and formal debate may form part of the output.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Integrate rigorous scientific ideas into a design task;
Discuss design as a partly creative process of choice (as distinct from a path to a single right answer).
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Initiate a self-driven research practice for problem solving;
Appreciate the value of teamwork
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
Present ideas and proposals effectively to groups.
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
The module is 100% continually assessed and non-repeatable.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
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Module Leader:
Anne.McLoughlin@ul.ie