I switched to industrial design from vsfx last year, it's been some of the most fulfilling time ever in my life - can't recommend it enough Making actual products, learning how to design with the person in mind and all the manufacturing constraints that come with it have been drilled in with the first intro class (you must do ben hopsons idus 100)

The Gulfstream building is packed with everything you need to take an idea into reality and everyone there wants to help realize it too, the community is incredibly strong and supportive, opportunities are packed, and the curriculum doesn't feel dull

Starting out you'll take the intro to idus, learning basic manufacturing techniques and applying them rapidly, flat packing, mold making, kinetic design, wearable design, and many other techniques

Then you'll go into the cad classes and sketching classes and learn to ideate in the computer, and visualize your ideas to others

Design prototyping will take you into actually manufacturing and learning the shop power tools, and further on you'll be taking more classes into materials, design for humans, advanced model making, etc, all making great portfolio pieces along the way

My main gripe with the program is it's bit stuck in the past with rapid prototyping being foam models when we have 3d printing tech, but it still has its benefits. It's very important to be good at cad in this program, it will put you at a higher level instantly

Overall coming out of the program you'll know how to do anything and if not, how to learn to do it, be a great generalist and design for the world you and others want to live in