This design course is unlike any other in the UK as it allows you to tailor your experiences to becoming a changemaker innovator and leader.
During this 3 year course you’ll develop skills which enable you to bring innovative products to market making life better easier and more productive for consumers who value a new way of doing things. You’ll learn to manage commercial projects professionally allowing companies to be more effective competitive and relevant in the world today. We are committed to ensuring that you gain the skills needed to make a difference and help put into action what’s best for people and the planet.
Our graduates have a firm belief that their energy and contribution allow them to perform a role that is highly valued by industry over 90% of our students graduate into jobs with many of them securing a post at their second or third year placement companies.
What will you study on this course?
The course is designed to give you a broad foundation in design through live projects with companies and industrial experience which consists of four modules in each year:
Workplace Experience
Design Subject Study (two modules)
Professional Practice
This is the only course in the UK to offer three workplace experiences one every year in a company of your choice. This enables you to tailor your experiences to match your career aspirations and allows you to specialise or gain a wide breadth of experience which future employers will value.
A range of briefs will challenge and develop you both creatively and professionally. Projects with industrial partners will ensure a grounding and context of how industry works. Your challenge is to be creative and ensure innovation within the given challenge.
Our graduates are highly employable and their design-thinking skills are now used to make the world a better place they solve problems for customers users clients and companies all over the world.
Workplace Experience consists of 24 weeks over three years:
• 8 week block during each year
• Supported by experienced mentors
• Visits by college link tutors
• Excellent portfolio generation
• Collaboration experience
• Involvement in real projects
• Personal and Professional Development
• Career driven experiences
The skills and talents learnt on work placement and during University study are transferable to the real world with many of our students continuing to work for their third year work placement company after graduation. Some of the placements companies that our students have gone to include:
Unilever
Bentley
International Safety Components
CK Tools
Fifth Wheel Company
Prism Medical UK
JCB
Jaguar Land Rover
Westbridge Furniture Design
DMM
Survitec
In the Design Subject Study modules you will study human centred design and design thinking methodologies. These include:
Principles of Design Thinking
Creativity
Design Communication and Modelling
Computer Aided Design (CAD)
Computer Aided Manufacture (CAM)
Manufacturing Skills
Prototyping
Sustainable Development and the Circular Economy
Presentation Skills
The Professional Practice lectures are designed to make you competent in the issues that affect product designers in industry you will study:
Design Innovation for industry
Strategic leadership
Project Management
Organisations and Management
Marketing
Presentation Skills
Modules for the current academic year
Module listings are for guide purposes only and are subject to change. Find out what our students are currently studying on the Product Design (English Medium) BSc (Hons) Modules page.
Course content is for guidance purposes only and may be subject to change.
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