Students engage with a number of mini-projects during the course of the program. They work on individual design projects as well as on group design projects. This acts as a training ground and prepares them for future employment.
But the mega-project takes the cake. DYPDC’s program in automotive design is the only such program where our design students build an actual car as part of their final year project. The final project is the most satisfying and rewarding aspect of the program for our students. It provides them a platform to demonstrate all the skills and knowledge learnt throughout the program. The project stages will be as follows:
| Stage 1 |
Students are introduced to the different aspects and activities of automobile design. This practical beginning will strengthen the student's motivation for more theoretical courses and contribute to a better understanding of the need and purpose for different kinds of knowledge and skills in design. |
| Stage 2 |
This stage will focus on the phase of conceptual design, both from the point of view of users and the context of use, and technical functionality and producibility. |
| Stage 3 |
Students will not receive a design brief, but they will be asked to generate new ideas for a particular automobile. So it will start in the strategic "fuzzy front end" of Design development. But the students must demonstrate the feasibility and quality of their ideas by working them into concept designs. |
| Stage 4 |
The course will start with conceptual design and run into the phases of embodiment and detailed design. In this course, students must completely work out their design concepts and prove its viability by different forms of modeling. |
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