‘Industrial Design in the Asian Century' is an intensive summer elective offered to students in the Bachelor of Industrial Design program. It involves observation visits to advanced manufacturing industries in a selected Asian country as well as collaborative problem solving workshops with industrial design students in an Asian partner university. The course provides an opportunity to be immersed not only in the Asian industrial design and manufacturing scene but also in the cultural traditions of Asia. The targeted Asian country changes every year. IDES3235 can be credited towards student’s ‘FBE Elective’ or ‘Open Elective’ requirements.