| Course | Course Title | Summer | Fall | Winter | Spring |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 106 | Design Thinking and Communication | Please see Northwestern's Course Catalog (CAESAR) for all DTC-1 class times, instructors, and locations. | Please see Northwestern's Course Catalog (CAESAR) for all DTC-1 class times, instructors, and locations. | Please see Northwestern's Course Catalog (CAESAR) for all DTC-2 class times, instructors, and locations. | |
| 208 | Design Thinking and Doing | Sec 1: Mon/Wed, 5-6:20pm, Ford Studio 3, Alexis Schilf & Hemant Jha, Sec 2: Tues/Thurs, 11am-12:20pm, Ford Studio 3, Sabrina Katz & Kim Hoffmann | Mon/Wed, 9:30-10:50am, Ford Studio 3 Alyssa Brown, Maggie Peng | Sec 1: Tues/Thurs, 9-10:20am, Ford Studio 3, Sec 2: Tues/Thurs, 5-6:20pm, Ford Studio 3, TBD | |
| 220 | Design Sketching I (1/2 Unit) | Wednesday, 9:30-10:50am; Hive Annex, Ford 2.340 Sabrina Katz | Wednesday, 11am -12:20 pm, Ford Studio 3 Sabrina Katz | Wednesday, 9:30-10:50am, Ford Design Studio, Ford 1.230 Sabrina Katz | |
| 230 | Machining Basics (1/2 unit) | Tuesday, 9am-12pm 5wk1, Ford Prototyping Lab Bob Taglia | |||
| 240 | Solid Modeling (1/2 Unit) | Thursday, 2-4:50 pm; 5wk1 or 5wk2 ; Tech MG47 John Hartman | Thursday, 2-4:50 pm; 5wk1; Tech MG 47 John Hartman | Sec 1:Thursday, 2-4:50 pm; 5wk1; Tech MG 47 Sec 2: Tuesday 6:30-9:30 pm; 5wk1; Tech MG 47 John Hartman | |
| 241 | Wireframing and App Design Basics (1/2 unit) | 5wk1 and 5wk2 Tues/Thurs, 12-1:20pm, Studio 3 Arvin Dang | |||
| 243 | Visual Thinking for Design (1/2 unit) | Tuesday, 2-4:50 pm; 5wk1; Tech MG47, Ford 2.340 John Hartman | |||
| 295 | Finding things out: designing experiments, discovering relationships, and making conclusions | Not offered in WI25 | |||
| 297 | Smart Electronics in Design | Tues/Thurs, 9:30-10:50am, 5wk1, Ford Mechatronics Lab, B.100 Nick Marchuk | Mon/Wed/Fri, 12-12:50pm, 5wk1, Ford Mechatronics Lab, B.100 Nick Marchuk | ||
| 297 | TIG Welding (1/2 unit) | Wednesdays 9am-12pm, 5W1, Ford Prototyping Lab Bob Taglia & Heidi Huckabay | |||
| 297 | Silversmithing Basics (1/2 unit) | Thursday, 9am-12pm. 5w1; Ford Prototyping Lab Kim Hoffmann | |||
| 300 | Designing Your Life (Also PRDV 300) | For specific dates and times of each section, refer to the PRDV/DSGN 300 Listings on the Northwestern Personal Development StudioLab Course Listing Page | For specific dates and times of each section, refer to the PRDV/DSGN 300 Listings on the Northwestern Personal Development StudioLab Course Listing Page | For specific dates and times of each section, refer to the PRDV/DSGN 300 Listings on the Northwestern Personal Development StudioLab Course Listing Page | |
| 305 | Human-Centered Service Design | Not offered in Winter 2025 | |||
| 306 | User Experience Design | Tuesdays, 9am-12pm, San Francisco (Bay Area Immersion Students Only) Pam Daniels | Tuesdays 6-9 pm, The Hive, Ford 2.350 Pam Daniels | ||
| 308 | Human-Centered Product Design | Monday, 6-8:50pm; The Hive, Ford 2.350 Dan Brown | Tues/Thurs, 12:30-1:50pm, Ford Hive Annex Alex Birdwell | Monday, 2-4:50pm, Ford G.201/G.205 David Gatchell | |
| 315 | Design, Technology, and Research | Friday's 12-2:50pm; The Garage Classroom Haoqi Zhang | Friday's 12-2:50pm; The Garage Classroom Haoqi Zhang | Friday's 12-2:50pm; The Garage Classroom Haoqi Zhang | |
| 320 | Introduction to Industrial Design Methods | Mon/Wed, 9:30-10:50am, Hive Annex, Ford 2.340 Greg Holderfield | Tues/Thurs 9-10:20am, Hive Annex, Ford 2.340 Greg Holderfield | ||
| 321 | Advanced Solid Modeling (1/2 unit) | Thursday 2-4:50 pm, 5wk2; Tech MG47 John Hartman | Thursday 2-4:50pm, 5wk2; Tech MG47 John Hartman | ||
| 322 | Rendering (1/2 unit) | Tues/Thurs, 12:30-1:50pm, 5wk2, Tech MG47 John Hartman | Tues/Thurs, 12:30-1:50pm, 5wk2, Tech MG47 John Hartman | ||
| 345 | Computer-Aided Manufacturing (1/2 unit) | Wednesday, 3-6pm. 5wk2; Tech MG47 Michael Beltran | Wednesday, 3-6pm. 5wk2; Tech MG47 Michael Beltran | ||
| 348 | Advanced Topics: Rapid Prototyping (1/2 unit) | Wednesday, 3-6pm, 5wk1; Ford SB310 Michael Beltran | Wednesday 3-6 pm, 5wk1; Ford SB310 Michael Beltran | ||
| 350 | Intellectual Property and Innovation | Not offered in SP25 Dan Brown | |||
| 365 | Bay Area Design Practicum | Thursdays 9am-12pm, San Francisco (Bay Area Immersion Students Only) Pam Daniels | |||
| 370 | Portfolio Development and Presentation | Mon/Wed, 4:30-5:50pm, Hive Annex, Ford 2.340 Andrew Skwish | Sec 1 Mon/Wed, 5-6:20pm, Ford Design Studio, Andrew Skwish; Sec 2 Mon/Wed 2-3:20pm, Ford Hive 2.350, John Anderson & Andrew Skwish | Tues/Thurs, 5-6:20pm, Ford Design Studio, Ford 1.230 Andrew Skwish | |
| 376 | Leonardo, Geometry, and the Art of Manufacturing | Friday, 10am-12:50pm, The Hive, Ford 2.350 David Gatchell & Matthew Cummins | |||
| 380-1 | Industrial Design Projects I | Tuesday 2-4:50pm Hive Annex, Ford 2.340 John Hartman | |||
| 380-2 | Industrial Design Projects II | Tuesday 2-4:50 pm, Hive Annex, Ford 2.340 John Hartman | |||
| 381 | Digital Product Development (2 units) | Tues/Thurs, 3-6pm, The Hive, Ford 2.350 Bridget McMullan and Stacey Wolcott | |||
| 382-1 | Service Design Studio I | Tuesday, 12:30-3:20pm; Ford Studio 3 Amy O'Keefe | |||
| 382-2 | Service Design Studio II | Tuesday,12:30-3:20pm; Ford Studio 3 Amy O'Keefe | |||
| 384-1 | Interdisciplinary Product Design I | Tues/Thurs 3:30-5:20pm, Ford Design Studio 1, Ford 1.230 John Anderson and Stacy Benjamin | |||
| 384-2 | Interdisciplinary Product Design II | Monday, 9am-12pm, G.201 John Anderson and Stacy Benjamin | |||
| 386 | Manufacturing Engineering Design | Tues/Thurs, 3:30-4:50pm, Ford Design Studio, Ford 1.230 Daniel Brown | |||
| 388 | MaDE Capstone Sequence | Tues/Thurs, 4:30-5:50pm, Ford Hive 2.350 Dan Brown and David Gatchell | Tues/Thurs, 11am-12:20pm, Ford Hive Annex 2.350 Dan Brown and David Gatchell | Tues/Thurs, 9-11:50am, Ford Design Studio 1 Dan Brown and David Gatchell | |
| 395 495 | Designing with AI | Graduate Students only; Wednesday 2-5pm, Ford Hive 2.350 Liz Gerber | Undergraduate Students only, Wednesday 2-4:50pm, Ford Hive 2.350 Liz Gerber | ||
| 395 | Design Objects / Furniture Design | Wednesday, 2-5pm, Ford Design Studio 3 Hemant Jha | |||
| 395 | Design Research - Learning to See People and Their Patterns | Wednesday, 6-9pm, Hive Annex, Ford 2.340 George Aye | |||
| 340 440 | Performance and Technology | Mondays and Wednesdays 2 pm - 3:20pm Thomas DeFrantz | |||
| 401-1 | Human-Centered Design Studio 1, Product Design | Wednesday, 1:00pm - 4:00pm, Hive Annex Jim Wicks and Helen Von den Steinen | |||
| 401-2 | Human-Centered Design Studio 2, Interaction Design | Mondays 1:00pm - 3:00pm and Thursdays 4:30pm - 5:30pm Susan Curtis, Jesse Wilbur & Tom Quish | |||
| 401-3 | Human-Centered Design Studio 3, Service Design | Thursdays, 9:00am-12:00pm Amy O'Keefe and Liz Gerber | |||
| 407 | Making Things Sustainable | Tuesday, 9:00am-12:00pm, in the Ford Design Studio, 1.230 Sabrina Katz and Steve Carr | |||
| 410 | Design Research | Monday, 1:00pm - 4:00pm in the Hive Annex Jim Wicks and Helen Von den Steinen | |||
| 420 | Design Communications: Visual Design and Storytelling | Friday, 9:00am-12:00pm; Ford Design Studio 1 Tran Ha and Amy O'Keefe | |||
| 434 | Ethics and Identity in Design | Monday, 6:00pm - 9:00pm George Aye | |||
| 425 | Digital Design and Development | 1st 5 weeks, 1st year MMM Section: Tuesdays 2:00-5:00PM; ITW Classroom Benjamin Block and Jeffrey Cohen | |||
| 426 | Whole-brain Communication (1/2 unit) | 1st 5 weeks of the quarter, 1st year MMM, Sec 1:Mon/Thurs, 8:30-10AM, OR, Sec 2: Tues, 1:30-4:30PM; ITW Classroom Steve Franconeri | |||
| 430 | Product Management | Friday, 12:30 - 3:30pm Birju Shah | |||
| 430 | Product Management for Technology Companies: An Entrepreneurial Perspective | ||||
| 450 | Differentiation by Design | Fridays 9:00am-12:00pm Daniel Brown | |||
| 455 | Design Strategy | Tuesday and Thursday 12:30-2:00pm in the Ford Hive Annex 2.340 Greg Holderfield | |||
| 460 | Appropriability by Design | Mondays, 8:30-11:30am and Wednesday 8/14, 8:30-11:30AM James Conley | |||
| 465 | Master Series: Growth Innovation | 1st 5 weeks of the quarter Baiju Shah (Lab: Thursdays 6:30pm-9:30pm) | |||
| 470 | Curiosity Understanding Empathy | Sec 1: 1st 5 weeks : Thursdays, 3:15-6:15pm, OR Sec 2: 2nd 5 weeks : Thursdays, 3:15-6:15pm; Ford Design Studio 1.230 Gina Fong | |||
| 474 | Brand and Design Leadership | Mondays, 5:30-8:20pm | |||
| 475 | Mindful Product Management: How to Discover, Design, and Scale Human-Centered Products, Services, and Experiences | Wednesdays 6:30-9:30pm; ITW Classroom Mike Edmonds | |||
| 480 | Business Innovation Lab | There are no specific days/times scheduled for this class. Meeting times are determined by students in the team, the faculty lead, and project sponsor within the company. | |||
| 485 | Master Series: Innovation Strategy | 2nd 5 weeks of the quarter Dan Kraemer (Lab: Thursdays 6:30pm - 9:30pm) | |||
| 490 | Research - Design - Build | Section 1 meets Monday 6:30-9:30pm; Section 2 meets Tuesday 6:30-9:30pm (Ford Design Studio 1.230) Greg Holderfield & Martha Cotton | |||
| 495-1 | Design Sprints | TBD TBD | |||
| 495-2 | Design For Local News | Thursdays, 9:00am-11:50am, Fisk Hall 111 Zach Wise | |||
| 495-21 | Designing Product Interactions | Friday, 9:00am-12:00pm in the Ford Design Studio, Ford 1.230 Craig Sampson & Nick Marchuk | |||
| 495-38 | ID for Design Innovators | Tuesdays, 9:00am - 12:00pm; Ford Design Studio 1 Mike Saubert | |||
| 499 | EDI Thesis | and Winter :: Thursdays 9:00am-12:00pm in the Ford Design Studio, Ford 1.230 Jim Wicks, Amy Schwartz |