Why IAID
What else you need to know.
Industry Partnerships
Partnerships within industry continue to become an integral part of our students’ experience. We have established relationships with OFS and Sloan. These collaborations expose our students to experts in the interior, furniture, and product design fields. They give our students the opportunity to grapple with real-world issues and see their design reach the marketplace with royalties.
OFF-CAMPUS OPPORTUNITIES
Message from the Department Head
Our Interior Architecture and Industrial Design is a unique department. We believe that designers should be makers, that it is not enough to just have an idea; through prototyping and proof of concept, the vision can become reality. We seek to design and make.
Our faculty have crafted two extraordinary design degrees, one in Interior Architecture and the other in Industrial Design. Where Interior Archiecture is primarily concerned at the spatial scale and Industrial Design is primarily focused on the product scale, they both intermingle in our award winning furniture design sequence where students learn the making culture and learn to work hands on to design furniture using our state of the art fabrication lab.
Sustainability, aging in place, wellness, connection, affordance, ergonomics, aesthetic delight — these are the meaningful ideals that form the heart of our degrees. If these topics are also important to you and spark curiosity in what you might want to learn, then welcome to IAID. IAID is home to our faculty and students where they create products, furniture, and interior architecture for a better future today. In keeping with the designer + maker philosophy, I would like to share a forecast of my vision. The major aspects that will become the foundation of this vision are fostering the department's development in Technology and Partnerships.
Technology
Finally, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) have arrived! The siren of VR and AR has been teasing us for decades but now the technology has caught up to the dream. The effect of walking through one’s design or seeing the your design in first person in real space cannot be overstated. I see these as necessary tools to not only more fully understand the effect of the design but as a way of investigating various options in real-time at full scale. Once again, I find myself envious of current and future students. The design tools that will soon become ubiquitous in our building is astounding.
Partnerships
We have history of working with Industry to develop products in the marketplace. Professor Neal Hubbell’s Contract Furniture class has tremendous success in working with OFS. Two of the projects — Lotiv and Roo— designed by the student teams in 2017, have become a part of the OFS line of furniture. Both are award-winning designs, and the design professionals — former students — receive royalties for their great work. With this successful result, we are now looking at alternatives for how this experience can grow and become a more integral part of our student curriculum. We are now also working with Sloan, a domestic plumbing fixture company based out of Chicago, IL. This new partnership affords our students to work with another family-owned company that has led their industry and is looking at the academy to help in product development.
These are just the initial projects of what I have envisioned for IAID. There are other partnerships, growth and technologies I and the faculty are considering, and I will let you know as they develop. This is an exciting time for our design degrees. I am sure as we continue to grow and develop we will discover other alternatives to teaching, learning and serving the larger community with great design.
Best,
Interior Architecture & Industrial Design
Department Head
1087 Seaton Regnier Hall
Kansas State University
nhowe@ksu.edu
Accreditation
Master of Interior Architecture
The Master of Interior Architecture non-baccalaureate track and post-baccalaureate track are accredited by CIDA and approved by NASAD.
The interior architecture program leading to the Master of Interior Architecture is accredited by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation, www.accredit-id.org, 206 Grandville Avenue, Suite 350, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503.
The CIDA-accredited program prepares students for entry-level interior design practice, for advanced study, and to apply for membership in professional interior design organizations.
Our degree is accredited by both NASAD and CIDA therefore our graduates are qualified educationally to sit for NCIDQ licensing exam. Currently roughly half of the states in the United States have Interior Design legislation in place. Please refer to this link for more information.
Master of Industrial Design
The Master of Industrial Design non-baccalaureate track is approved by NASAD, the only national accreditation body governing industrial design.
Licensing
The Master of Interior Architecture granted by Kansas State University meets the educational requirement for eligibility to sit for the National Council for Interior Design Qualification Examination (NCIDQ Exam). For more information about NCIDQ Exam eligibility visit: www.cidq.org/eligibility-requirements.
Master of Industrial Design
Job Placement, Acceptance, Graduation Rates, & Retention/Attrition
2020 — 2021
- Job Placement: 15 of 20 May 2021 graduates were employed in the field by January 1, 2022. No data was collected for the remaining 4.
- Acceptance into Graduate Programs: The MIAPD program includes application and acceptance to the K-State Graduate School prior to the beginning of the fourth year (out of five years) of study for non-baccalaureate students. 100% of students from the May 2021 graduating class who applied to graduate school were accepted. One student from this class applied and was accepted as a Ph.D. candidate at another graduate school. The MIAPD post-baccalaureate program acceptance rate for students in the 2020-2021 academic year was 100%.
- Graduation Rates: 94% of these students graduated in 5 years.
- Retention/Attrition: Retention for the same cohort from 2nd to 3rd year was 100%. Attrition was 0%.
2019 — 2020
- Job Placement: 13 of 27 May 2020 graduates were employed in the field by January 1, 2021. No data was collected for the remaining 11.
- Acceptance into Graduate Programs: The MIAPD program includes application and acceptance to the K-State Graduate School prior to the beginning of the fourth year (out of five years) of study for non-baccalaureate students. 100% of students from the May 2020 graduating class who applied to graduate school were accepted. One student from this class sought an MBA from Kansas State University after graduation. The MIAPD post-baccalaureate program acceptance rate for students in the 2019-2020 academic year was 100%.
- Graduation Rates: 92% of these students graduated in 5 years.
- Retention/Attrition: Retention for the same cohort from 2nd to 3rd year was 100%. Attrition was 0%.
2018 — 2019
- Job Placement: 30 of 33 May 2019 graduates were employed in the field by January 1, 2020. No data was collected for the remaining 3.
- Acceptance into Graduate Programs: The MIAPD program includes application and acceptance to the K-State Graduate School prior to the beginning of the fourth year (out of five years) of study for non-baccalaureate students. 100% of students from the May 2019 graduating class who applied to graduate school were accepted. No students from this class applied to other graduate programs. The MIAPD post-baccalaureate program acceptance rate for students in the 2018-2019 academic year was 100%.
- Graduation Rates: 85% of these students graduated in 5 years.
- Retention/Attrition: Retention for the same cohort from 2nd to 3rd year was 97%. Attrition was 3%.
2017 — 2018
- Job Placement: 18 of 23 May 2018 graduates were employed in the field by January 1, 2019. No data was collected for the remaining 5.
- Acceptance into Graduate Programs: The MIAPD program includes application and acceptance to the K-State Graduate School prior to the beginning of the fourth year (out of five years) of study for non-baccalaureate students. 100% of students from the May 2018 graduating class who applied to graduate school were accepted. No students from this class applied to other graduate programs. The MIAPD post-baccalaureate program acceptance rate for students in the 2017-2018 academic year was 70%.
- Graduation Rates: 80% of these students graduated in 5 years.
- Retention/Attrition: Retention for the same cohort from 2nd to 3rd year was 97%. Attrition was 3%.
2016 — 2017
- Job Placement: 18 of 18 May 2017 graduates were employed in the field by January 1, 2018.
- Acceptance into Graduate Programs: The MIAPD program includes application and acceptance to the K-State Graduate School prior to the beginning of the fourth year (out of five years) of study for non-baccalaureate students. 100% of students from the May 2017 graduating class who applied to graduate school were accepted. No students from this class applied to other graduate programs.
- Graduation Rates: 95% of these students graduated in 5 years.
- Retention/Attrition: Retention for the same cohort from 2nd to 3rd year was 95%. Attrition was 5%.