Salt Lake Community College and Outdoor Product Design & Development Transfer Collaboration

SLCC Fashion + USU OPDD

Utah State University and Salt Lake Community College have entered into an articulation agreement that allows students completing their SLCC Fashion Design & Merchandising: Technical Apparel emphasis degree to transfer to Utah State University and apply to Outdoor Product Design & Development matriculation to the professional program. Required courses* can be found in the official transfer articulation agreement.

SLCC students will need to:

  1. Apply and be accepted to Utah State University the Fall semester prior their intended start date. Students applying in the Fall will be applying for the following Fall semester. Apply to USU.
    • Once accepted to USU, students will receive an A# which is required to apply to the OPDD program and the portfolio review process.
  2. Schedule a mandatory appointment with an OPDD advisor. Schedule here.
  3. Apply to matriculate into the OPDD program prior to the last Friday at 5:00 pm MT of USU Fall semester (A# required). Apply to OPDD.
  4. Submit a link to your online portfolio via Canvas (once accepted to the portfolio Canvas course during Spring semester) and turn in one physical artifact, the Friday before USU Spring Break at 5 pm MT. Portfolio requirements can be found below.

Notification of acceptance into the OPDD professional program (junior and senior years) will be given in the Spring before registration for Fall semester. 

*SLCC students studying apparel and soft goods design will fulfill FCSE 3040 and FCSE 3140 credits and are not required to complete TESY 1200 or OPDD 2430 prior to applying, but can complete these elective courses upon admittance into the program at USU.

Professional Program Portfolio Guidelines:


Portfolio

Upon admittance to Utah State University and after submitting an OPDD application for portfolio review, students will be admitted into a Canvas course during the Spring semester and must provide the following as part of their portfolio:
  1. A web-based presentation focusing on a portfolio of your projects. This web site should have tabs at the top to direct the review committee to the following materials:
  • Resume (see #2 below)
  • Ideology statement (see #3 below)
  • Portfolio of your projects (see #4 below)

Create this web site using Wix, Dribble, Cargo, PortfolioBox, Adobe Portfolio (keep in mind that your Adobe Portfolio account created with a usu.edu email will expire upon graduation), or similar that is easy for you to use. You may use the free version.

  1. Resume
  • Single page document
  • Includes correct formatting and contains appropriate content for a resume
  • Linked and/or tab in your web-based presentation/web site.
  1. Ideology Statement
  • Maximum of 250 words
  • An explanation of how, what, and why you create. Please share why you love to create while avoiding telling a lengthy history of why you like the outdoors. Explain why you choose the OPDD major.
  • Linked and/or tab in your web-based presentation/web site.
  1. Portfolio of your projects

Include three projects that demonstrate your ability to work through a design and development process. These projects may be from assignments you completed in courses you have already completed such as: OPDD1000, OPDD1050, OPDD1100, OPDD2420, OPDD2430, FCSE1040, FCSE2040, OPDD2040, TEE2030, TESY1030, or other relevant courses. At your discretion, you may choose to substitute any project(s) you completed during course work with project(s) of your own choice. The three projects you choose to present should show your best process, skills, and abilities. You may rework or improve any project completed previously to show your current progress, regardless of when you completed your project(s). Please indicate what software and/or A.I. tools were used to create any items in your portfolio.

(*In OPDD2710, you may choose any of your projects to expand or improve upon to include in your portfolio. You will also learn more about what makes for excellent portfolio content and structure.)

Four aspects/phases of the concept design process

Each of the three projects needs to show the following four aspects/phases of the concept design process. Each project must include:

  • Research
  • Ideation and creative exploration
  • Refinement and development of the concept
  • Finalization and visualization of the concept and/or prototype

Showcase and emphasize the skills and creativity that you have developed in courses you have taken or projects you have worked on. Please include examples of the following throughout your portfolio:

  • Research
  • Layout and graphic communication
  • Ideation sketching
  • 2D Computer Aided Design/Technical drawing
  • 3D Computer Aided Design
  • Rendering
  • Physical Fabrication/Prototyping

You may choose to emphasize the different examples listed above in varying amounts for each project, but all must appear somewhere in your portfolio. For example, if a project you want to include has many ideation sketching examples but no physical fabrication/prototyping in it, that is okay. Simply show the final design as a rendering and show physical fabrication/prototyping in another project.

Please include a link to each of the projects on your website. No projects or prototypes need to be physically turned in. The web-based portfolio presentation is due by 5pm MST the Friday before Spring Break.

Transcripts

  • Can be unofficial copies from Banner
  • Include any from other institutions, if applicable
  • Submitted in pdf format in Canvas
  • Labeled as Lastname_Firstname_Transcripts.pd

Resources

Previous student work / senior projects and portfolios:
https://caas.usu.edu/opdd/seniors

OPDD Instagram Account
https://www.instagram.com/usuoutdoorproduct/

Examples of capstone projects at the OPDD Senior Exhibit: