MEng: W24B
MEng: 4 years full-time, 5 years full-time with placement
£13,700 (INT) *
This course is now available in Clearing.
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Overview
Why study product design engineering with us
Our flexible product design degree gives you the skills, project experience and professional networks to succeed in the creative and mechanical fields of product design. With the flexibility to study a three-year BEng, or a four-year MEng, our product design course gives you the skills, practical experience and confidence to develop your creative vision into real working products.
Using industry-standard software and hardware, you’ll learn the ins and outs of mechanical design engineering and physical computing, while you develop the skills you need to combine aesthetic functionality with innovative technology. You'll specialise in applying mechanical design engineering and physical computing in domestic products and become experienced using the latest industry software and hardware equipped in our labs and workshops.
You’ll also get the work experience, advice, feedback and encouragement you need to start building your professional portfolio – and gain a competitive edge when it comes to launching your career.
Build your practical product design engineering skills
You’ll enhance your career prospects through our networking events, work experience opportunities and the chance to enter design engineering competitions. You’ll also have the option to get a taste of the industry with a paid, year-long work placement, and get to showcase your work to industry professionals in our final year degree show.
Our London location gives you access to some of the UK’s most prestigious design companies – and our weekly guest lectures give you the chance to further enhance your industry knowledge and build contacts with some of the industry’s leading design experts.
From your second year, you’ll have the option to pursue the creative (BA) route or the technological (BEng/MEng) path for the remainder of your studies. If you’re applying for our four-year MEng course, you’ll also gain your master's qualification as soon as you successfully finish your undergraduate study.
Get the support you need to succeed
While you’re learning, you’ll be matched with a Personal Tutor directly related to your course. You’ll also get support from our Student Learning and Graduate Academic Assistants, who have experience in your subject area.
You career success is important to us, which is why our product design degree has the Creative Skillset Tick and is currently seeking accreditation by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED). You’ll graduate with the skills and experience you need to start a career in a wide-range of sectors, from industrial design and experimental design to creative technology and product design.
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Course content
What will you study on the BEng/MEng Product Design Engineering?
You will develop a range of techniques across studio based design and engineering processes, prototyping and traditional workshop methods, physical computing, computer aided design and analysis and manufacturing techniques. The design discourse strand will help you to understand design in its wider context and to recognise its place in the cultural landscape.
You will learn to design and engineer a wide range of products across: consumer durables, lighting, furniture, smart products, sports and leisure products, and toys and games, emphasising the technology and detail design. You will also examine design issues relating to: design strategy, human factors, marketing, product semantics, sustainable design, CAD visualisation and simulation, advanced manufacturing, rapid prototyping and contextual design studies.
Our professional learning environment encourages you to develop a commercial approach to design. This happens through taking part in work placements and also through supporting live projects with industry partners.
What will you gain?
Product Design Engineering is a practice-based programme, and is focussed on employability experience. Modules build technical skills and/or practice skills. Year 1 builds these through hands-on exercises and mini-projects. Year 2 develops the depth and range of these skills and adds ‘Live’ experiences with industrial or external collaborators in a range of Product Design and Engineering sectors.
The Placement Year extends this by allowing you to go out to work directly in a design and/or engineering practice or practices. The final year combines external project experience with a self-initiated final project, which acts as a calling card for future employment and integrates and coheres all the previous experiences at the highest level.
The course will help you develop the theoretical and practical skills, experiences and attitudes to enter the professional world as an employment ready Product Designer Engineer across a wide range of sectors and emerging practices.
BEng modules
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Year 1
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Design and Studio Practice (60 credits) - Compulsory
This module introduces the core skills in design and studio practice. The focus of the module is on developing both an intellectual awareness and a practical application of design process methods, ideas generation and communication techniques and creative conversations
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Prototyping (30 credits) - Compulsory
This module introduces the core skills in prototyping. The focus of the module is developing confidence in an awareness and practical application of prototyping techniques appropriate for different stages of the design process.
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Design Tools (30 credits) - Compulsory
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Year 2
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Design Methods, Processes and Practice (60 credits) - Compulsory
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Advanced Technical Prototyping (30 credits) - Compulsory
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Advanced Technical Design Tools (30 credits) - Compulsory
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Year 3 - Optional Placement
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TKSW Placement (120 credits) - Optional
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Year 4
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Engineering Design Projects and Professional Practice (60 credits) - Compulsory
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Professional Context (30 credits) - Compulsory
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Design Manifestation (30 credits) - Compulsory
The Design Manifestation module continues the making experiences from Year 1 & 2 modules to develop a high level of technical capability and an equivalent level of reflective practice sensitivity. It interweaves with the final year modules to create a coherent and supportive final year experience which will prepare them for their chosen future. The module will equip final year students with: - the understanding and experience of HOW to evolve great ideas and manifest them in appropriate and high-quality ways. - the ability to consider WHY the manifestation process they pursue is best suited to them, their project, their practice and the wider world. - the confidence to engage with challenges early in an active, exploratory and open manner, and to apply their knowledge and experiences in effective ways.
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MEng modules
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Year 1
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Design and Studio Practice (60 credits) - Compulsory
This module introduces the core skills in design and studio practice. The focus of the module is on developing both an intellectual awareness and a practical application of design process methods, ideas generation and communication techniques and creative conversations
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Prototyping (30 credits) - Compulsory
This module introduces the core skills in prototyping. The focus of the module is developing confidence in an awareness and practical application of prototyping techniques appropriate for different stages of the design process.
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Design Tools (30 credits) - Compulsory
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Year 2
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Design Methods, Processes and Practice (60 credits) - Compulsory
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Advanced Technical Prototyping (30 credits) - Compulsory
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Advanced Technical Design Tools (30 credits) - Compulsory
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Year 3 - Optional Placement
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TKSW Placement (120 credits) - Optional
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Year 4
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Engineering Design Projects and Professional Practice (60 credits) - Compulsory
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Professional Context (30 credits) - Compulsory
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Design Manifestation (30 credits) - Compulsory
The Design Manifestation module continues the making experiences from Year 1 & 2 modules to develop a high level of technical capability and an equivalent level of reflective practice sensitivity. It interweaves with the final year modules to create a coherent and supportive final year experience which will prepare them for their chosen future. The module will equip final year students with: - the understanding and experience of HOW to evolve great ideas and manifest them in appropriate and high-quality ways. - the ability to consider WHY the manifestation process they pursue is best suited to them, their project, their practice and the wider world. - the confidence to engage with challenges early in an active, exploratory and open manner, and to apply their knowledge and experiences in effective ways.
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Year 5
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Team Project (60 credits) - Compulsory
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Design Strategy (30 credits) - Optional
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Advanced Topics in Design Engineering (30 credits) - Optional
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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Engineering Innovation (30 credits) - Optional
This is a new module and the description will become available shortly.
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You can find more information about this course in the programme specification. Optional modules are usually available at levels 5 and 6, although optional modules are not offered on every course. Where optional modules are available, you will be asked to make your choice during the previous academic year. If we have insufficient numbers of students interested in an optional module, or there are staffing changes which affect the teaching, it may not be offered. If an optional module will not run, we will advise you after the module selection period when numbers are confirmed, or at the earliest time that the programme team make the decision not to run the module, and help you choose an alternative module.
Teaching
Entry requirements
Fees and funding
Careers
How can the BEng/MEng Product Design Engineering support your career?
Product Design Engineering graduates enter employment in a wide-range of sectors that fall within the new definition of ‘Product Design’ and ‘Product Design Engineer’. You could enter in such as roles as:
- Industrial Designer
- Service Designer
- Designer/Craftsperson
- Interaction Designer
- Design Engineer
- Mechanical Designer
- Experimental Designer
- Product Designer
- Creative Technologist
- Design Strategist
An increasing number of graduates are setting up their own businesses, and successful start-ups such as Rebirth, Casezo, ADZero (ADCreative), Airbrake, Mutant Bikes, Exceptional and Novo Consult have been led by graduates recently.
Facilities
Our Product Design degree offers a professional standard learning environment with excellent facilities, including over 100 high spec workstations with dedicated CAD/CAM equipment. The workshops feature industrial scale facilities for CNC milling, turning, laser cutting, additive manufacturing/rapid prototyping and CMM reverse engineering.
Electronics and mechatronics prototyping and production, including LabView and Multisim tools with associated hardware such as NI-ELVIS training equipment and Compact Rio control systems provided by National Instruments and PCB manufacture. Festo automated production and assembly simulation equipment.
World leading and international award-winning designers work with our students, through visiting lectureships, guest lectures and projects regularly and throughout their experience.
Campus life
Staff profiles
Dr Kate Herd
Senior Lecturer
Dr Herd is an internationally renowned expert on co-design. She is also Associate Director of redLoop, the MDX Design and Innovation Centre.
Helena Ambrosio
Lecturer and Designer in Residence in Design Engineering and Mathematics
Helena is active in practice and research exploring design and engineering processes and data-driven design.
Professor Mehmet Karamanoglu
Head of Department, Design Engineering and Mathematics
Professor Karamanoglu holds a visiting Professorship at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He is actively involved in research and research supervision primarily focusing on Engineering Design and Manufacturing Engineering. He also serves as the UK national organiser for the Mechatronics competitions for the WorldSkills UK/SEMTA.
Puja Varsani
Associate Lecturer in Design Engineering and Mathematics
Puja is a specialist in robotics and physical computing. Puja is a previous two-times UK Worldskills champion in mobile robotics.
Student profiles
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