MA Industrial Design

Course details Core units Design Aesthetics: Key-note lectures will explore the aesthetics of design concepts, and you will have the opportunity to deconstruct and analyse design methods and concepts in seminars and workshops. Design Interaction: Through a structured process and methodology, you will develop a critical and creative understanding of interaction and ergonomic design methods. You will learn to identify, analyse and define ergonomic design phenomena and compile a design specification. Business Innovation & Enterprise: With an emphasis on strategic management, you will look at how to identify and exploit a company’s strengths. You will evaluate external opportunities that exist, together with conceiving strategies to overcome internal weaknesses and the threats that might be imposed by the industry environment. Design Management: To ensure your success in management, you will need to develop a critical understanding of design management. This includes the design process, product development, project planning, the integration of total quality and decision-making analysis. Materials Optimisation for Sustainability: This topical issue is important to every kind of business. You develop a knowledge of sustainable development based on a multi-disciplinary approach to reducing waste. You will also learn to identify and quantify environmental impacts during the life cycle of a product/service from raw material abstraction to end of life disposal, and implement real-world sustainable development strategies. Research Methods: This unit will prepare you for writing a project proposal and for conducting and disseminating your Individual Master's Project. Key research skills in areas such as literature reviews, critical analysis of research findings, project proposals, planning, experiment design and analysis, and dissemination are critical for your Project's success. Individual Master's Project: A substantial, independently-conducted piece of work. Your Project should show your understanding of the characteristics and implications that are inherent to the solution of a complex, real-world problem. Programme specification Programme specifications provide definitive records of the University's taught degrees in line with Quality Assurance Agency requirements. Every taught course leading to a BU Award has a programme specification which describes its aims, structure, content and learning outcomes, plus the teaching, learning and assessment methods used. Download the programme specification for MA Industrial Design. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the programme specification, the information is liable to change to take advantage of exciting new approaches to teaching and learning as well as developments in industry. If you have been unable to locate the programme specification for the course you are interested in, it will be available as soon as the latest version is ready. Alternatively please contact us for assistance.