Product Design

Study mode:On campus Study type:Full-time Languages: English
Local:$ 9 k / Year(s) Foreign:$ 16 k / Year(s) Deadline: Jan 15, 2025
StudyQA ranking:1925 Duration:36 months

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Description

This BSc degree course shares all its first and second year modules with BSc Product Design Engineering, and both contain a balanced blend of creative and technical subjects where mechanics and electronics are taught at a theoretical level.

The Product Design programme combines the concepts of commercial awareness with creative thinking and sound technological reasoning. The course has a technical emphasis, meaning students can develop products that both look good and work well.

The degree also emphasises aesthetic awareness and understanding of market trends. All modules on the course have creative and project based working including graphic design, human factors and environmentally sensitive design.

Our focus is on integrating commercial awareness, technical ability and innovation.

The course suits pragmatic problem solvers who combine their numeracy with the creative motivation to underpin exciting, commercially viable projects with a deep functional and manufacturing understanding.

About Design at Brunel

Brunel’s Design degrees are some of the most renowned and respected in Europe and our students and graduates have won many national and international design awards. All our Honours and Master’s programmes build on a broad base of knowledge, skills and industrial experience. We view the realisation of every aspect of a concept as vital to successful design.

To enable this, we have an extensive cross-disciplinary lecturing team, including mechanical and electrical engineers, computer and materials scientists, mathematicians, psychologists, and practising designers and graphic communication experts. It is this cross-disciplinary nature that gives our students the knowledge and expertise they require, and distinguishes us from virtually every other Design and Engineering department in the UK.

All our lecturing staff are research or professionally active – sometimes both – which ensures that the content of our programmes is constantly up-to-date and evolving with the commercial worlds of both design and engineering.

Aims

The Product Design Engineering programme aims to develop versatile designers with a sound knowledge and broad understanding of the technological, manufacturing and creative aspects of design, principally focused on industrially-manufactured products.

Graduates will have significant engineering understanding and will be able to take on key roles encompassing all aspects of the design process, as well as being prepared for further research-based studies.

We believe that good design is the combination of commercial awareness with creative and inspirational thought validated by sound technological reasoning, defined through the design process. We produce communicators who are at ease working with members of engineering, design and marketing teams and appreciating their individual needs, and capable of contributing to the total design process.

Design at Brunel University has evolved to meet the needs of industry worldwide, by teaching highly motivated students, through in-depth professional studies, to become imaginative yet practical professional designers.

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline January 15 Tuition fee
  • GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
  • GBP 16000 Year (Non-EEA)

£1,000 placement year

Start date September 2015 Duration full-time 36 months Languages Take an IELTS test
  • English
Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Full-time More information Go To The Course Website

Course Content

The first year of core modules ensures a sound understanding of the technological, creative and practical skills necessary. At Level 3, there is a distinctive change in emphasis towards ergonomics and design for manufacture. Final year projects often pursue consumer durable themes complemented by subjects of a more semantic nature.

Typical Modules

Level 1

  • Design Process 1
  • Graphic Communication
  • Workshops and Materials
  • Mechanics for Design
  • Electronics and Mathematics

Level 2

  • Design Process 2
  • Design for Manufacture and Communication
  • Electronics, Programming and Interfacing
  • Dynamics, Mechanisms and Stress Analysis
  • Level 2 Placement Year
  • Professional Practice

Level 3

  • Major Project (core)
  • Innovation Management (core)
  • Human Factors (core)
  • Environmentally Sensitive Design
  • Graphics
  • Contextual Design
  • Embedded Systems for Design

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6.5

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

take an IELTS test.

Requirements

  • GCE A-level ABB, including at least Grade B in Design and Technology, Product Design, Art or Art and Design and at least Grade B Maths or Physics (General Studies not accepted for this subject at all).
  • Advanced Diploma Progression Diploma Grade A in Creative and Media, Engineering or Manufacturing and Product Design, plus Maths or Physics A-level at Grade C for Additional and Specialist Learning.
  • BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma D*DD in a related subject including Maths or Physics modules.
  • BTEC Level 3 Diploma DD in a related subject with an A-Level at grade A in Design and Technology, Product Design, Art or Art and Design, Maths or Physics.
  • BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma D in a related subject with A-Levels grade AB in Design and Technology, Product Design, Art or Art and Design and Maths or Physics.
  • International Baccalaureate Diploma 33 points, including 5 in Higher level Design and Technology, Product Design, Art or Art and Design and 5 in Higher Level Maths or 5 in Higher Level Physics.
  • Access to Higher EducationDiploma Complete and pass Access to Engineering or Art and Design course with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 30 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. All Maths units must be Distinctions at level 3.

GCSE Mathematics grade C and GCSE English grade C are also required.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

  • Academic Excellence Scholarship

    "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

  • Access Bursary

    Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

  • Alumni Bursary

    Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Brunel University.

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