MDes in Design Thinking

Master

In Cranfield

£ 11,910 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Master

  • Location

    Cranfield

  • Duration

    1 Year

  • Start date

    October 2024

Innovative companies today (large or small) strive for excellence to create the next breakthrough innovation - whether that be to advance technology, stay competitive in the market place, or to provide positive change for a more sustainable future. To achieve this, companies need to maintain their competitive edge, employing talented professionals with ideas and vision, coupled with the skills to pioneer with confidence. We believe that Design Thinking is a powerful process that when mastered will empower our professional learners to unlock their creative potential to generate novel ideas and to translate these ideas into tangible and impactful outputs for innovation.

This course has been carefully designed to advance your knowledge of Design Thinking and you will benefit from working alongside leading academics with confidence to generate convincing ideas in Cranfield’s world-class facilities. Cranfield’s strong industrial links provides you with the opportunity to apply Design Thinking in practice with a company, to improve your opportunity of job success, enhancing your professional skills and innovation design portfolio, and provide you with the ‘know how’ to develop your long-term career as a creative professional working towards a more sustainable future.

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Location

Start date

Cranfield (Bedfordshire)
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MK43 0AL

Start date

On request
Cranfield (Bedfordshire)
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MK43 0AL

Start date

Oct-2024Enrolment now open

About this course

The course is designed for (but not exclusive to) creative professionals with an aspiration to use Design Thinking to advance their career. It aims to develop creative design literate engineers, scientists and management postgraduates providing tools and techniques to visualise complex data flows and strategic communication processes. It is suitable for graduates from a variety of disciplines.

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Subjects

  • Leadership
  • Design
  • Innovation
  • Project
  • MSC
  • Postgraduate
  • Management
  • Strategic Management
  • Strategic design
  • Design techniques

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Course programme

Why this course?

If you are a professional wanting to advance your career using Design Thinking, then this course is perfect for you. All students on this course will be expected to work on solving several complex challenges set by companies, manage a project from start to completion, and the opportunity to rub shoulders with executive-level decision makers or senior innovation managers.

Powered by the Centre for Competitive Creative Design (C4D), this masters in Design Thinking exploits existing expertise within Cranfield’s School of Water, Energy and Environment and School of Management


Course details

The MDes course comprises five assessed modules in which you will use design thinking to accelerate innovation.

You will engage in creative leadership, strategic design management, design thinking and innovation strategy, technology and prototyping and circular innovation.

Modules are delivered in facilities in Cranfield, supported by seminars, workshops and lectures in creative and design agencies, providing a closer link to professional practice.

You will also undertake a group project in which they apply their skills to real business challenges, and complete an individual thesis project.

MDes in Design Thinking

£ 11,910 + VAT