Course General Description

The Undergraduate Degree in Transportation Design is a university degree (240 ECTS). This course provides students with the knowledge and skills they need to develop mobility solutions in the broadest sense, ranging all the way from designing the inside and outside of a motorbike, car, aeroplane, train or boat to all kinds of accessories and associated services. Designing a means to transport goods and/or people over land, air or sea is a job for a professional who has a broad vision and cross-sector skill set. They need to be able to adapt to current needs and anticipate what will be needed in the future by applying the latest techniques, technology and materials in the sector. The course teaches Transport Design students a versatile, multi‑disciplinary and innovative approach which will allow them to come up with ideas that factor in the user, the environment, ergonomics and social value.

School General Description

The Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) is a private design school in Italy founded in 1966 by Francesco Morelli. The school is organized into four disciplines: Design, Fashion, Visual Communication and Management. It is spread over nine cities—Milan, Turin, Venice, Cagliari, Florence, Rome, Barcelona, Madrid and São Paulo—and thirteen locations which occupy more than 50,000 square meters of space.[3] It offers 29 different courses of three-year duration, in several languages: English, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. These courses are attended by about 10,000 students every year, totaling to more than 90,000 students, for the Institute's forty-year history.