Product Design and Technology (Taught)

If you want to become a confident, creative and resilient designer, our BSc/MDes Design and Technology programme is perfect for you! You will graduate as a versatile professional, well-prepared for a diverse range of design and technology career paths.

Throughout your studies, we will encourage you to combine creativity with scientific insight to create practical, functional solutions for consumer, industrial, and digital products. Confident in identifying opportunities, you will design products that excel in technical, functional, aesthetic, and economic criteria. The program covers the entire design process, from concept to engineering, prototyping, manufacturing, and pitching to clients and investors.

Course Modules

YEAR ONE

• Computational Simulations

• Design and Practice

• Engineering Mathematics

• Engineering science

• Materials Engineering

• Principles of Instrumentation and Measurement

YEAR TWO

• Design Inspiration 2

• Design Application 2

• Technical and Design Communications 2

• Professional Skills 2

• Mini Major Project

• Circular Economy Pathway (optional module)

• User Experience Pathway (optional module)

• Design Engineering Pathway (optional module)

YEAR THREE - SANDWICH WORK PLACEMENT

• Optional Placement Year

YEAR FOUR

• Innovation and Enterprise

• Design Research Tools

• Major Project Module

• Design Engineering Pathway (optional module)

• Circular Economy Pathway (optional module)

• User Experience Pathway (optional module)

• Pathway Application

YEAR FIVE

• Design Thinking and Reasoning

• Design Futures

• Human Factors

• Technical Research and Professional Skills

• Group Project

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