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Improving University Industrial Design Courses: An Action Research Study.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Improving University Industrial Design Courses: An Action Research Study./
Author:	Gonzalez, David.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2021,
Description:	266 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-09, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International83-09A.
Subject:	Perceptions. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=28990433
ISBN:	9798209808862

Improving University Industrial Design Courses: An Action Research Study.
Gonzalez, David.

Improving University Industrial Design Courses: An Action Research Study. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2021 - 266 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 83-09, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Liverpool (United Kingdom), 2021.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This research focuses on the improvement of the bachelor of industrial design program offered by the University of Monterrey and the generation of knowledge through the use of several methods and methodologies relevant to the field of business administration and research.As a former employee in the industry, the researcher is aware of the importance for students and graduates to develop technical and interpersonal skills in order to efficiently attend their working demands. These skills however, are sometimes not in accordance to what the industry (identified in this research as the demand side in the stakeholder theory) might require, and the university (the supply side) offers as potential professionals as the result of years of training and education in the field of industrial design. This mismatch was identified as the managerial problem in this Thesis.For this study, the methodology of Action Research was selected. Different from traditional research methodologies, AR not only pretends to obtain and analyze data to obtain conclusions regarding a managerial problem, but also seeks to provide improvement in the organization. With the use of Action Research in this Thesis, the researcher was not only able to obtain valuable data from the stakeholders but to conduct analysis through various different cycles of learning, discuss the results with the organization, identify opportunity areas to mitigate and improve the situation of the problem. It was precisely thanks to the involvement and discussion of results that is expected to occur with the methodology that the researcher was able to obtain solid conclusions and identify areas of improvement that wouldn't be possible to achieve with other methodologies.To better understand how to attend the managerial problem, it was necessary to obtain data from every stakeholder regarding their perceptions and expectations towards different topics of industrial design such as skills and abilities they believed designers should have, as well as their perception towards this profession within the industry. Using Template Analysis as the data analysis ii method, the researcher was able to acquire seven overarching themes that gave a broad perspective of the different topics regarding the design profession. These were then discussed with the organization, and their analysis derived in four major opportunity areas that require their attention to mitigate the problem. Finally, the researcher was able to propose improvements to the program and offer methodological and practical contributions for knowledge, as well as for the organization, which the reader can find in the final chapter of this study.

ISBN: 9798209808862Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Perceptions.

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