Education

More than two dozen industrial design students in Iowa State University's College of Design are teaming up with a recreational facility in Urbandale, IA that serves people with special needs—to design adaptive sports equipment. Several of the Iowa State students also are going the extra mile to volunteer at Courage League to better understand the athletes.

Industrial design students from The Art Institute of Seattle will be participating in the Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Competition (Micro-g NExT) on April 25, 2016 at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. They will be developing tools intended to solve challenges related to deep space exploration as part of NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission.

The winners of the 2015–16 Stanford Center on Longevity Design Challenge have been announced, and they span the globe. Two San Francisco State University Department of Design and Industry students won first

In 1984, IDSA became a Professional Organization Affiliate of the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD), the national accrediting agency for art and design and art and design-related disciplines. NASAD is an association of approximately 346 schools of art and design, primarily at the collegiate level, but also including postsecondary non-degree-granting schools for the visual arts disciplines.