An overarching objective of the MID is to provide an advanced and rigorous education that promotes an understanding of design as a process of identifying, analyzing, and solving design problems of human interface with our physical environment. The MID will combine core coursework developed for the Master's in ID with coursework from across Georgia Tech in the areas of architecture, engineering, humanities, and social sciences. Students will develop diverse skill-sets that provide the graduate level industrial designer with the knowledge necessary to engage in complex problem solving for a variety of products, and processes of production, with a human-centered focus.

Specific objectives of the Georgia Tech MID are:

To provide students with rigorous graduate design and research instruction that develops knowledge, skills, and understanding of the principles of the field of Industrial Design;

To provide opportunities for students to become expert in one of the three areas of focus within the MID program;

To facilitate design activities, at an advanced level, to incorporate aesthetic, ethical, social, environmental, and sustainability values in formulating industrial design approaches and judgements;

To enable graduate students to develop their intellectual, analytical, and critical problem-solving abilities that will prepare them for professional practice;

To provide opportunities for integration of other disciplines in the learning process in order to prepare students for the complex dynamics of collaborative product development.