Design Engineering with Sustainability (Taught)

This course addresses the issues associated with a rapidly changing market and the demands for better, cheaper and personalised products, developed within the shortest possible time. It will provide thorough training in design theories and process models, design methods, design techniques, computer supported product modelling, analysis, evaluation and physical rapid prototyping of a design solution. In addition to the enterprise skills necessary to launch brand new products to market. This course introduces sustainability concepts and explains the application of sustainable methods to the engineering design process. The Sustainability stream provides an opportunity to specialise in issues such as re-manufacturing, product life cycles, and environmental impact to ensure that product development is responsibly conducted and managed from cradle-to-cradle.

Compulsory classes: Global Design, Product Modelling and Visualisation, Sustainable Product Design and Manufacturing, Digital Manufacturing and Smart Products, Design Methods and Management, Postgraduate Group Project, Postgraduate Individual Project, Sustainability, Sustainable Product Design and Manufacturing, Remanufacturing