Engineering and Physical Sciences Foundation Programme: Product Design and Innovation

Our foundation programme paves the way to a degree programme in BSc Product Design and Innovation at the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Course outline

In our foundation programme for producty design and innovation, you will gain the fundamental knowledge needed for your future undergraduate studies, paving the way toward a BSc in Product Design and Innovation.

On this programme, you will learn, collaborate, and flourish through a blend of academic modules, specific subject knowledge, and project-based learning with students in other engineering areas and foundation students across different frameworks. This approach mimics the real-life working world, where your career will be enriched by working alongside people with different skill sets, viewpoints, and approaches, while also supporting a wider community of learning and building the specific skills for your progression.

Key benefits

• Supporting progression – Opportunity to progress onto an Aston University degree programme by learning fundamental subject knowledge.

• Gold standard teaching – Aston University was awarded Gold – the highest possible rating for the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF, 2023)

Where can this degree take me?

Successful completion of this foundation programme enables progression onto our full-time BSc (Hons) Product Design and Innovation degree course.

The transferable skills that our product design programmes provide mean that our graduates are successful in finding employment in a wide range of roles such as:

• Designer

• Junior designer

• Design engineer

• Operations manager

• Product designer - bespoke furniture

• Quality inspector

• Client services associate

• Graphic and email designer

Our graduates have gone on to work at companies such as Solitec Engineering, MoniRail, Avenue Furniture, Caterpillar, Roman Originals, Desk Gear, TransPerfect Translations, and EP Climbing.