Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
Ten Principles of Economics: Trade-offs, Costs, Rationality, Opportunity Cost, Market Economies, Government Interventions, Inflation |
|
2) |
Thinking like an Economist: Economics as a Science, Assumptions and Models, Micro and Macroeconomics, Positive and Normative Analysis. |
|
3) |
Interdependence and Gains From Trade: Production Possibilities, Absolute And Comparative Advantages |
|
4) |
The Market Forces of Demand and Supply: The Nature of a Competitive Market, Individual and Market Demand, Individual and Market Supply, Equilibrium and Changes in Equilibrium |
|
5) |
Elasticity and its Applications: Price Elasticity of Demand and its Computation, Total Revenue and Elasticity of Demand, Price Elasticity of Supply and its Computation |
|
6) |
Supply, Demand and Government Policy: Price Controls, Price Floors & Ceilings, Taxes |
|
7) |
Review |
|
8) |
Consumers, Producers and the Efficiency : Consumer & Producer Surplus, Market Efficiency |
|
9) |
The Costs of Taxation: The Deadweight Loss of Taxation, the Determinants of the Deadweight Loss, Tax Revenue, Laffer Curve |
|
10) |
International Trade: The Determinants of Trade, Effects of Tariff and Quota |
|
11) |
Externalities & Public Goods: Externality, Internalizing Externality, Transaction Costs, Public Goods, Private Goods, Common Resources, Free Rider |
|
12) |
The Costs of Production: Total Revenue, Total Cost and Profit, Production Function, Fixed and Variable Costs, Average and Marginal Costs, Cost Curves, Costs in the Short Run and in the Long Run |
|
13) |
Firms in Competitive Markets: Profit Maximization & the Competitive Firm’s Supply |
|
14) |
Monopoly: Monopolies’ Production and Pricing Decisions, Profit Maximization, Monopolies’ Profit, Welfare Cost of Monopoly, Public Policy Toward Monopolies, Price Discrimination, Oligopoly: Game Theory and the Economics of Cooperation, Public Policy Toward Oligopolies |
|
|
Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
1) |
Having the theoretical and practical knowledge proficiency in the discipline of industrial product design |
|
2) |
Applying professional knowledge to the fields of product, service and experience design development |
|
3) |
Understanding, using, interpreting and evaluating the design concepts, knowledge and language |
|
4) |
Knowing the research methods in the discipline of industrial product design, collecting information with these methods, interpreting and applying the collected knowledge |
|
5) |
Identifying the problems of industrial product design, evaluating the conditions and requirements of problems, producing proposals of solutions to them |
|
6) |
Developing the solutions with the consideration of social, cultural, environmental, economic and humanistic values; being sensitive to personal differences and ability levels |
|
7) |
Having the ability of communicating the knowledge about design concepts and solutions through written, oral and visual methods |
|
8) |
To identify and apply the relation among material, form giving, detailing, maintenance and manufacturing methods of design solutions |
|
9) |
Using the computer aided information and communication technologies for the expression of industrial product design solutions and applications |
|
10) |
Having the knowledge and methods in disciplines like management, engineering, psychology, ergonomics, visual communication which support the solutions of industrial product design; having the ability of searching, acquiring and using the knowledge that belong these disciplines when necessary. |
|
11) |
Using a foreign language to command the jargon of industrial product design and communicate with the colleagues from different cultures |
|
12) |
Following and evaluating the new topics and trends that industrial product design needs to integrate according to technological and scientific developments |
|