Stout is not a traditional art and design
school. It was founded in the 1890's as Stout Manual Training School,
and although it has changed over time, it has maintained the personality
of a vocational school. The school offers a wide variety of technical
majors. Graphic design, packaging, vocational rehabilitation, manufacturing
engineering, interior design, and fine arts are just a few of the
areas available for study. There are facilities for injection molding,
a full capacity foundry, ceramics and metals labs, and classes in
plastic polymer and wood molding techniques. The Applied Arts program
was founded on the philosophy that there should be a place for art
and technology to coexist. The Industrial Design program, along
with several other related majors, embrace this ideal.
Stout has a student body of about seven
thousand of which about one hundred and fifty are enrolled in
the Industrial Design program. As a major, our program is fairly
small, however, we as students tend to be very active. Our I.D.S.A.
student chapter has more than forty members. We invite speakers
to discuss design issues and teach workshops. We also schedule
tours of design firms, and trips to areas like Chicago and New
York to check out design firms that aren't so close to home. As
a whole, the Industrial Design department has a diverse mix of
traditional and non-traditional students who have come from a
variety of vocations, looking to change our careers and lives.
Included in the student body are a former artist's assistant,
bouncer, auto painter, architectural model builder, small business
owner, welder, and glass bender. Our current I.D.S.A.-Student Chapter President
was formerly employed as a certified mechanic for Harley Davidson.
The University is looking for Industrial
Design professors. Therefore, in the spirit of our independent
nature, we, as students, have written this article and placed
an advertisement in an attempt to recruit well-suited professors.
If you want to know more about University of Wisconsin-Stout,
check out the Stout web page at http://www.uwstout.edu
If you want to know more about us, feel free to check out our
ad
on this website under industrial design jobs, or log on to our
student designed web page at: http://art.uwstout.edu/~ID/
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Menomonie, Wisconsin is a town you should
know about. It is home to the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Stout
is one of a few schools in the Midwest that have an Industrial Design
program. It belongs to an even smaller group of state schools that
offer this major. As the students of this exceptional program, we
feel compelled to tell you a little more about our school.
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