ME in Design

ME in Design

We aim to cultivate student who have excellent design skills and solid theoretical foundation, and based on the Chinese culture foundation and international perspective, have a strong ability to combined sensibility and rationality, science and art to solve practical problems, and to adapt to the current modern design requirements, able to independently engage in design jobs and management works in related fields of design. Research Area: 1. Product design and design systems

2. Digital media design and identity design

3. Design history and design strategy

4. Environment and art design Education system and cultivation mode:

   1. Master of Engineering (Industrial design engineering) graduate with full-time management model; take the concentration study way in school.

5. We accept the dual tutorial responsibility system or the tutor group responsibility system and hired high-level artists and experienced industrial designers and engineers as outside tutors. Tutor team guidance is throughout the entire training link, school tutors mainly responsible for operational guidance and ideological or political education, outside school tutors responsible for project research, curriculum, graduation design, and other link instruction work.

School of Design of Hunan University (HNU Design) is one of the earliest design and artistic disciplines in China which was established in 1982. In 1993, HNU Design win the first prize in National Teaching Award, and in the same year was qualified to confer Master's Degree of Art in the first batch, in 2005 obtained the doctorate conferring authority of the second-class discipline of “Art of Design", in 2009 obtained the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree-granting, in 2011 obtained the doctorate and master's degrees conferring authority of first-class discipline of “Design”. HNU Design is director unit of the National College of Industrial Design Teaching Steering Committee, had excellent teaching conditions and take a leading position in the professional in the country.

The Institute attaches great importance to international exchanges. In 2006 HNU join the international design art college alliance, and established close cooperation relations with Politecnico di Milano, Università degli studi di Roma La Sapienza, Turin Polytechnic University, design institute of Chiba University, Practice university school of design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University School of Design as well as Nokia, Motorola, Microsoft, Sony, Intel, Giugiaro design companies and other multinational companies. In October 2006, HNU School of Design was nominated as one of the world's top 60 design schools by the “Business Week”.In November 2007, industrial design subjects was firstly named characteristics of professional subjects in the state-level, in 2008, Art and Design Experiment Teaching Center was named a National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, In 2009, become the state-level Art and design Personnel training base, in 2011, established the China-Italy Design and Innovation Centre(Hunan).