Course summary

• Learn the skills you'll need to become a professional industrial designer or technological product designe
• Challenge existing thinking and create engaging, sustainable and ‘disruptive’ market-ready product designs.
• Experiment with technologies, techniques, materials and processes in state-of-the-art studios.
• Develop the advanced digital visualisation, analysis and production skills that employers look for.

If you don't meet the entry requirements for our BSc (Hons) course, or you’d like extra preparation before starting degree-level study, we recommend you join the foundation year – which has been designed to encourage exploration and experimentation.

This course prepares you for an exciting career as a globally-minded designer, equipped to identify and respond to future challenges. You’ll experience employability-driven learning through real-world projects. You'll be equipped with the visual and technical skills necessary to become an industrial designer or technological product designer.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

You'll learn from staff who are actively involved in research and commercial design delivery. Through our engaging project briefs, you'll explore creative thinking, sustainable design, enabling technologies, new product development, advanced 3D CAD and design for manufacture. These experiences help you to innovate and instigate change. Linked to the leading Design Futures Research and Consultancy Group, the course offers unique 'real-time' insights that allow you to develop your professional design and research & development skills.

You learn through

• studio-based design projects (individual/group)
• lectures
• technical skills workshops
• work experiences and placements
• live design projects
• field trips
• presentations andfeedback sessions
• work review sessions
• studio-based design projects
• blackboard online learning portal

Future careers

This course prepares you for future study and careers in

• product design
• technological product design
• industrial design
• designing and making
• design consultancy
• design manageemnt
• entrepreneurship / start-up business
• advanced manufacturing
• digital visualisation
• education
• sales and marketing