Our ID curriculum has been restructured to provide students with the flexibility to tailor their individual course selections to meet specific personal career goals and objectives. Industrial design is growing and maturing as a discipline, providing a growing range of career options for our graduates:
 

• Our Product Development and Innovation track applies advanced design and manufacturing methods to develop innovative new concepts for a broad range of product design applications. We focus on parametric modeling, 3D scanning, advanced materials, and digital manufacturing.
• Our Health and Well-Being track focuses on a proactive approach to the application of design research, universal design, and product and service design to create new innovations in wellness and health-related products and ecosystems.
• Our Interactive Product Design track leverages advances in body scanning, sensor-based technologies, and soft goods design to explore opportunities to design and develop "smart" products and next-generation wearables.

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.