The mTID program is an intensive three-semester program; each semester includes a studio course in which you design and make interactive objects and environments. The studio is complemented with selected courses to build skills in areas outside your strengths. Rounding things out is a seminar/reading course to provide opportunities for reflection.

Here are some of the courses that may be taken to round out your skills and knowledge:

• Introduction to Robotics (Choset)
• Experimental Form Studio (Baskinger)
• Rapid Prototyping (Finger)
• Fabricating Customization (Ficca)
• Making Things Interactive (Gross)
• How Things Are Made (Chung)
• Digitech Design Tools (Chung)
• Document Design (Ishizaki)
• The Interactive Image (Levin)
• Introduction to Programming
• Basic Interaction (Zimmerman)
• Principles of Interactive Robotics (Nourbakhsh)

CMU is on the "unit system", where one unit represents 1 hour of work per week in the classroom, the studio, or outside of class. A 9 unit lecture class, for example, is typically 3 hours in lecture and 6 hours of work done out of class; a 9 unit studio is 6 hours in formal studio and 3 or more hours of work down outside of studio.

Studios in the mTID program are 18 units, a typical graduate course load is 45 units per semester. The program requires 90 units to graduate and the School of Architecture requires a minimum grade average of 3.0 ("B") on a 4.0 scale.