Although the professional culture of designers has been emphasized as a peripheral issue in various fields of study in design, such as design culture and design management, it has rarely been the central topic of research. However, studies from other professional fields have demonstrated the significance of studying professional culture,…

This study explores a "design fiction" approach in an educational context by applying it to a third-year industrial design studio class. The "Food Futures" project is conducted with thirty students in the design studio. We approached the future of food using a design fiction approach since the combination of food and design is…

This study compares the experts and the novices to investigate their information processing in dealing with the different degrees of recognition of shape-match stimulus by measuring the event-related potentials (ERPs). ERPs were recorded while 20 designers and 20 novices made shape-match judgments for table and chair sets. All of the tables were…

School pupils in Taiwan spend most of their time in studying and having examinations, and consequently many of them decide what major to study in universities rather hastily. Industrial design (ID) programs in universities nowadays recruit students from general and vocational senior high schools through a variety of channels. As a consequence, ID…

State industrial-arts and trade and industrial education associations can be more effective if they merge. Attitudes exist in the majority of the fifty states favorable to the merger. (DS)

Discusses the relationships and interpretations of vocational education, practical arts education, trade and industrial education, industrial arts, and industrial education. (GR)

Industrial arts programs, courses organized for the development of understandings about the technical, consumer, occupational, recreational, managerial, social, historical, and cultural aspects of industry and technology, are an important area of education. Industrial arts education develops individuals in terms of general education objectives,…

THE PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO EXAMINE (1) THE STATUS OF CERTAIN ORGANIZATIONAL PROCEDURES AND PRACTICES IN GRADUATE PROGRAMS OF INDUSTRIAL ARTS EDUCATION, (2) THE EXTENT TO WHICH SPECIALIZED TECHNICAL, RESEARCH, TEACHING, AND ADMINISTRATION COMPETENCIES ARE DEVELOPED AMONG GRADUATE STUDENTS, AND (3) THE PROVISION FOR GENERAL LIBERAL EDUCATION…

This compilation of abstracts of dissertations and staff studies, alphabetically listed by author in a loose leaf arrangement, is designed to provide the teacher, student, and administrator of industrial arts, trade and industrial, and technical education programs a single source of information regarding the research done in the field from 1930 to…

Data, conclusions, generalizations, and a model are presented in a study concerned with two major issues: The need to clarify and refine the graduate program in Industrial Education and the need to structure the Industrial Education graduate program. (TA)

This compilation of abstracts of dissertations and staff studies, listed alphabetically by author in a loose leaf arrangement, is designed to provide the teacher, student, and administrator of industrial arts, trade and industrial education, and technical education programs a single source of information regarding the research done in the field…

The author discusses possible alternatives for the Industrial Arts Curriculum in a futuristic world where mass information, mass travel, and global interaction are commonplace. (Editor/HD)

Seven areas of wood technology illustrates applicable techniques, processes, and products for an industrial arts woodworking curriculum. They are: wood lamination; PEG (polyethylene glycol) diffusion processes; wood flour and/or particle molding; production product of industry; WPC (wood-plastic-composition) process; residential construction; and…