Undergraduate students will meet the following student performance criteria:

Fundamental Skills

  • Produce accurate, well composed sketches/drawings, using traditional and/or digital tools, to effectively communicate design concepts, proposals, and intentions
  • Demonstrate perspective accuracy in drawings
  • Demonstrate effective composition in visual communications
  • Demonstrate effective application of shading and contrast in visual communications
  • Apply craftsmanship in visual communications
  • Visually communicate color, materials, and texture in drawings
  • Produce accurate orthographic drawings
  • Produce orthographic views and perspective views that relate accurately to each other
  • Produce well-crafted 3-D models, using traditional and/or digital tools, complete with color and material indications
  • Produce models demonstrating craftsmanship including accuracy of dimension, surface quality, and finishing quality
  • Select appropriate materials and processes to craft object
  • Produce models accurate to 2D drawings

Design Skills

  • Collect data appropriate for the given project
  • Describe how the data informs project decisions, draw informed conclusions (forecasting)
  • Identify a problem based on research findings
  • Produce a variety of concepts to address a stated problem
  • Set design criteria relevant to proposed project
  • Apply basic design principles to solve identified problem with consideration for sustainability
  • Demonstrate creativity in design ideas
  • Demonstrate refinement of design throughout design process
  • Complete designs to meet all indicated design criteria
  • Use form, color, materials, and textures appropriate to the project

Professional Readiness

  • Produce a professional portfolio appropriate for seeking employment within the industry
  • Demonstrate graphic sensitivity in portfolio design through page layout, use of fonts, and color selection
  • Design portfolio to clearly communicate design processes and design story