Industrial Design and Technology

Description

This course is taught in parallel with Brunel’s successful BSc Design courses and is distinguished by including technical content whilst maintaining a creative and practical approach.

It produces designers who have the ability to realise their design solutions together with a comprehensive understanding of design theory and issues. The technical emphasis means that students can develop products that both look good and work well.

Final year options have a strong technological and humanistic focus, and your major project usually comprises an aesthetic model and a functional prototype.

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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

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

• GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
• GBP 16000 Year (Non-EEA)

£1,000 placement year

• English

Course Content

Throughout the programme you will share many core design modules, including materials, graphic media and workshop practice with students on the BSc programmes, but the study of mechanics and electronics will be via workshop-based learning rather than pure subject-based lectures.

We emphasise the application of technology throughout all the courses, with integrated project work forming a substantial part of the course at all levels.

Typical Modules

Level 1

• Creative Engineering Practice
• Design Process 1
• Graphic Communication
• Product Analysis
• Workshops and Materials

Level 2

• Design Process 2
• Design for Manufacture and Communication
• Systems Design
• Design Applications

Level 2 Placement Year

• Professional Practice

Level 3

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

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6.5 CAE score : 60(Grade C)

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Requirements

• GCE A-level ABB, including Grade B in Design and Technology, Product Design, Art or Art and Design (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 a C at A-level for Additional and Specialist Learning.
• BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma D*DD in a related subject.
• 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.
• 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.
• International Baccalaureate Diploma 33 points, including 5 in Higher Level Design subject.
• 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.

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.