To reinforce preparation for your career path, we offer a progressive series of electives to help build the specific specialty skills you'll need to be properly positioned for your career goals and objectives upon graduation. Depending on your personal goals, possible options could include:
 

• For a "hands-on" design career, you might select courses in parametric modeling, digital design methods, and additive manufacturing.
• For a career in the "internet of things" (IOT) and smart product technologies, you might choose advanced courses in interactive product design, interactive environments, and wearable technology.
• For a career in design for wellness and health-related products and systems, you might opt for courses in universal design, service design, and advanced design research.
   

Or you might want to combine specialization options:
 

• For a career in the health care field focused on the design of monitoring equipment, you may want to combine a series of electives from both the Health Care and Interactive Product Design specializations, including universal design, advanced interactive product design, and advanced design research.
• Conversely, for a career in the health care field focused on hands-on equipment design, you might want to combine electives from both the Health and Well-Being and Product Development specializations, including universal design, parametric modeling, and sensor based technologies.

Both programs capitalize on Georgia Tech’s rich traditions in technology and research. They also focus on a user-centered design process and evidence-based design practice that offers students unique opportunities to explore the design of new and existing technologies.

Faculty members, who are practicing designers and experts in their fields, maintain active research programs in tangible products within communication technologies, enabling environments, supportive product systems, rehabilitation technologies, and health care systems technologies.

Each program offers an interdisciplinary course of study with early emphasis on understanding the design process and developing project-based design skills. Those design projects stress realistic design situations. Students have the opportunity to be involved in sponsored and/or funded projects. Students are encouraged to expand individual disciplinary talents and respond to changing opportunities in the field.