Product Design

Description

You are:

• inquisitive
• a problem solver
• creative
• enthusiastic

You want to:

• design a new product that will resolve a problem or fulfil a need
• research ways to bring people and technology together
• learn the technical skills required to create your vision
• develop your computer aided design skills

Final year students are given the opportunity to showcase their work at New Designers in London along with over 4,000 other design graduates from around the UK.

New Designers brings the design industry together, helping to launch the careers of the attending design graduates. With over 18,000 visitor throughout the duration of the exhibition there is a great opportunity to be discovered.

86% of exhibiting courses had graduates receive offers of work, placements or commissions.

Employability is the fundamental driver for our course. We pride ourselves on building strong relationships with employers throughout our students' education, enabling a smooth and quick route to industry and further academic training on graduation.

Our graduates are employed as product designers, service designers and interaction designers across the globe for companies such as Live|Work, Alpkit, Microsoft and NCR.

Detailed Course Facts

• EUR 2060 Year (EEA)
• EUR 13126 Year (Non-EEA)

Tuition fees are approximate and dependent upon currency exchange rates.

• English

Course Content

Key to the philosophy of the BSc (Hons) Product Design is an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning. Such an approach is possible due to the course being jointly delivered by Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (djcad) and the School of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics (EPM), who both have internationally recognised research and product development expertise, providing you with broad and expertly delivered twenty-first century product and engineering design teaching.

Level 1

Level 1 introduces you to some of the key skills a designer requires to develop successful products. You will work on a number of short and longer projects as individuals and in teams. You explore a range of 2-D and 3-D visualisation techniques in Design Studies. Fundamental principles of engineering, as well as the materials available to you as a designer, are introduced through Technology modules.

• Product Design Practice: Fundamentals of Product Design Design Studies
• Design Studies: Visual Expression
• Technology: Mechanics and Thermodynamics and Design Technology (Materials)

Level 2

Level 2 encourages you to build on your understanding of designing products gained at Level 1. You learn how to develop products to a greater level of detail and consider how issues such as ergonomics can influence design. You are also introduced to the world of interaction design.

Students are encouraged to develop a personal design process, as well as understand the different contexts in which they may operate as a designer. Technology modules provide an introduction to electronics, 2-D and 3-D computer aided design and structural analysis.

• Product Design Practice: Industrial Design and Interaction Design
• Design Studies: Contexts/ Stakeholders and Structuring Creativity Technology
• Technology: Software Engineering (CAD and microcontrollers); Structural Design and Manufacturing

Level 3

Level 3 deepens your understanding of designing products through investigating the needs of people. You are introduced to a number of research techniques that allow you to engage with people and are encouraged to embed this new knowledge in your products. You also explore some of the commercial issues that affect the development of products and are encouraged to contextualise the development of your work in terms of current social issues.

In preparation for your final year, emphasis is placed on the development of highly polished models with working technology embedded in them. Technology modules develop your understanding and use of the principles behind engineering design.

• Product Design Practice: Design Research; Design Products
• Design Studies: Design Futures and Professional Practice Technology
• Technology: Engineering Design

Level 4

The majority of your time in the final year is spent in the studio and dedicated to a major personal project. By this stage you will have enough knowledge of product design to define your own brief. You can also choose from a range of optional modules.

The year will result in an exhibition of your work at the Duncan of Jordanstone Degree Show. Previous major projects have explored interactive furniture, services and products that promote sustainable living, inclusive design solutions for the visually impaired and digital products for the home.

• Product Design Practice: Design Portfolio Project
• Electives, for example: Business Innovation for Designers; Advanced CAD; Design Dissertation

Typically, assessment in product design and design studies is through designed products, services or interactions which are presented to the class.

You are trained and encouraged to present in a range of formats in such a way that you are given a good grounding in graphics, media (web-pages, blogs, short-films) and verbal skills.

In engineering, assessment is through a mixture of coursework (technical reports), exams and team practical projects.

Through this variety of ways of assessing we build your skills and confidence in the life-long skill of presenting your thinking and skills to an audience.

Requirements

See Course Homepage for Full Details

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 University of Dundee.