Integrated Design & Media

Category: Get to know IDM

  • Resources

    If you are interested in finding out when breaks, final exams, and/or midterm grades are due; check out the NYU academic calendar.

    For any questions about financial aid, work study, scholarships, and/or paying your university bills; check out info from the financial aid office. Their contact for Brooklyn is:

    5 Metrotech Center, Dibner Hall, Room 201 
    Brooklyn, NY 11201-2772
    financial.aid@nyu.edu
    Phone: 212-998-4444

    As an international student, some things to keep in mind are:

    • As an international student if you want to work at an external company as an internship you need the internship class
    • If you want help getting an internship here is some helpful information
    • For getting credits for your internship read up on
      • CPT which is offered at IDM
      • OPT 
    • Getting an SSN to be paid for your work

    For more questions about international status, the Global Office in Brooklyn is:

    5 MetroTech Center Room 259 
    Brooklyn, NY 11201
    Contact

    If you have a disability and need appropriate accommodations for test taking and/or studying away; check out the NYU Moses center

    Along with great academics we care about students having a well mind. To get support for anxiety or any mental distress reach out to the NYU health center

    If you are struggling through courses due to personal distress, medical distress, or need a semester break to readjust, read more on taking a leave of absence

    Check out NYU’s internship and employment services

    • Need resume advice, general interview tips, or a room to interview in check out Wasserman
    • If you need help figuring out a career path, reaching out to companies, and getting referrals check out Tandon career services
    • For applying directly to NYU and/or Tandon aimed jobs: TandonConnect | Handshake

    P.S don’t forget that the best resource are the friends and people around you either at IDM or in other majors. Always be open to ask them for assistance, guidance, and their opinion because they may have an answer that reduces the amount of energy and searching you have to go through yourself.

  • Location and Facilities

    Integrated Design and Media is primarily located on the 3rd Floor of 370 Jay street in downtown Brooklyn.

    370 Jay houses our Design lab, Print Lab, Computer lab, open studios, and the shared Media Commons. We also have additional lab spaces in 2 MetroTech and Rogers Hall.

    Building 22 in the Brooklyn Navy Yard houses our state of the art production facility with motion and volumetric capture studios and other amenities.

    3D printing lab at IDM
    IDM facility showing student spaces

  • Career Opportunities & Companies

    Roles our students and alums are working:

    • VR Developer
    • User Experience Designer
    • Product Designer
    • Software Developer
    • Graphic Designer
    • Production Technician
    • AV Engineer
    • Content Strategist
    • Programmatic Analyst
    • Digital Production Artist

    Companies our students and alums are working:

    • Google
    • Instagram
    • Sony Music Entertainment
    • Peleton
    • Verizon
    • Prudential
    • Vuzix (AR)
    • Ralph Lauren
    • Disney
    • JET
    • GE

    Helpful NYU Job Links:

    IDM has a private LinkedIn group for job and opportunity postings. Current students and Alumni should contact idmadvise@nyu.edu to be added.

    Resume advice, general interview tips, or a room to interview in check out Wasserman

    If you need help figuring out a career path, reaching out to companies, and getting referrals check out Tandon career services

    For applying directly to NYU and/or Tandon aimed jobs: TandonConnect | Handshake

    General Company Career Sites:

    Audio

    Design

    Games

    All-Purpose Companies

  • Overview

    Launched in 2004, the Integrated Design & Media (IDM) Program— formerly called Integrated Digital Media— is a place that fosters creative practice, design research and multidisciplinary experimentation with emerging media technologies. Located within Tandon School of Engineering, in the Department of Technology, Culture, and Society (TCS), IDM is a ‘STEAM‘ program combining artistic inquiry with scientific research and technological practice to explore the social, cultural and ethical potentials of emerging technologies. We focus on how to create new experiences with technologies but also on what is worth making and why.

    The IDM curriculum combines project-based learning with the study of historical, cultural, legal and philosophical aspects of digital media. We emphasize the development of skills applicable to a broad spectrum of media through individual and collaborative work. Guest lectures and conferences supplement our curriculum and maximize students’ personal contact with leaders in various sectors of the following fields: business, advocacy, service, entertainment, and education. The program culminates in a thesis that combines theory and practice to showcase students’ creative and technical abilities.

    IDM offers a four-year BS degree, a 30-credit MS degree, a cross-school minor available to all NYU students, and an accelerated 5-year BS/MS. The IDM curriculum integrates topics typically found in an arts context – creative expression and design within both fixed and interactive media – with engineering topics such as signal processing and human-computer interaction. As a program within TCS, this curriculum embraces the department’s core focus on the intersection of engineering and society, encouraging students to engage with technology in a creative, critical, sustainable, and ethical manner; IDM courses feature strong emphasis on human-centered, outward-facing work that integrates values of self-expression, equity, and social justice into engineering. The IDM program articulates these goals through a number of initiatives, many of which, such as the Ability Project, are done in close collaboration with other departments in the University.

    IDM is the only program at NYU Tandon in which the majority of faculty and students are women. As with all Tandon programs, we strive to excel in diversity, inclusion, and equity, with a high proportion of first-in-family students, students of color, and students receiving significant federal aid for college.  We firmly believe in the role engineering and creativity can play in affecting social change, and have proudly developed and hosted conferences, hackathons, and days of action around diversity in games, inclusion and equity in creative technology, better experiences for users of mass transit, safer streets, design for disability, and immigrant rights.  We partner with Brooklyn-based non-profit arts and advocacy organizations for much of this programming, including the ISSUE Project Room, Eyebeam, Tech Kids Unlimited, and Code Liberation.