The Industrial Design programme requires a total of 40 working days of compulsory internship, so that students can experience in professional settings the theoretical and applied knowledge gained during their studies. The internship has two stages.
Internship I — Production Internship
In the production internship, students are placed in a production facility or manufacturing environment to observe production methods, material and process relationships, quality control, workflow and factory organisation first-hand. They see how design decisions relate to production conditions and which technical and organisational stages a product passes through from idea to mass production.
Internship II — Office Internship
In the office internship, students join professional design processes in a design office, R&D centre, product development unit or a company’s design department, getting to know how research, user analysis, ideation, visualisation, modelling, presentation, teamwork and project tracking work in a real setting.
The department internship coordinator and the HKÜ Career Center plan to guide students in identifying suitable organisations. Collaborations with regional industry, design offices and R&D units are also intended to help students get to know different production and design environments.