UAlberta的MDes计划专注于工业设计（ID）和视觉传达设计（VCD）领域中对公共利益的研究。教职员工使用跨学科方法和参与性方法从事研究和实践。工业设计关注用户与建筑环境之间的界面以及所涉及的身体，认知和情感问题。视觉传达设计致力于印刷和交互式新媒体中的信息设计和交流，并包括与教育，文化，健康和安全有关的需求设计。研究生们在本地，国家和国际会议和展览中展示了他们的作品。我们的医学博士学位课程提供设计研究部门的工业设计（和视觉传达设计）高级研究。我们的方法是跨学科的，我们的目的是为毕业生提供先进的设计
Society's needs inspire designers to innovate. Designers analyze society's needs and create solutions that shape how our world looks and functions. Our Industrial Design program prepares you to create objects and services that inform, entertain, educate and work towards improving people's health and well-being.<br><br>In our four-year Bachelor of Design (BDes) program, you'll learn to create and use sketches, models and imagesin strategic and sophisticated waysto communicate ideas and information in products as diverse as electronic packaging, furniture, medical products, branding/visual identity packages, signage, apps, trade show and museum displays.<br><br>The imagination and creativity of designers touches almost every object in our lives-from the chair we sit on to the cars we drive. Industrial Designers create concepts and translate them in to visual form-by sketches, models and then through computer softwareto communicate and create products that engage, inform, educate, entertain and inspire people. They create layouts or electronic displays and coordinate production and implementation of their designs.