Meeting the needs of the present generation without compromising future developments in design and manufacture is a complex challenge for product designers across the globe. This course will develop your understanding of systematic design processes relating to business strategy, and influencing sustainable development within the design process.
This degree has been accredited by the Institute of Engineering Designers (IED) as fulfilling the requirements for Chartered Technological Product Designer (CTPD). You are entitled to free student membership of the IED, and you will receive their bi-monthy journal - Engineering Designer - free of charge too.
On the course you'll cover a range of topics from materials technologies to sustainability issues. You'll investigate, select and learn to use the computer aided design (CAD) and analysis simulation tools that are appropriate to the requirements in your field of work. Furthermore it will give you the skills and knowledge to lead and manage projects with the commercial acumen demanded in today’s competitive global environments, and the ability to manage, document and effectively communicate project plans and results.
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Bournemouth
(Dorset)
Fern Barrow, Talbot Campus, BH12 5BB
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On request
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Subjects
CAD
Design
Simulation
Materials
Project
Engineering
Team Training
Product Design
Course programme
Course details
During this course units are taught intensively, usually over 4.5 days, and assessments normally take place 5-6 weeks after units have been delivered.
Core units
Project Management: You will master a range of techniques and gain the ability to handle contradictions in the knowledge base. You'll also apply analytical and critical thinking with respect to the planning of design and development projects, and learn valuable leadership skills.
Design Interaction: Through a structured process and methodology, you'll develop a critical and creative understanding of interaction and ergonomic design methods. You'll learn to identify, analyse and define ergonomic design phenomena and compile a design specification.
Materials Optimisation for Sustainability: Develop a deep knowledge of sustainable development based on a multi-disciplinary approach to minimising 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 execute real-world sustainable development strategies.
Design Simulation: You'll develop an extensive understanding of strengths and limitations of current solid modelling applications in respect of part and assembly design. You will gain an understanding of the strengths and limitations of using simulation tools for analysing and validating industrially relevant design problems, and develop professional competence and critical awareness in using modern analytical techniques and tools for the product development process.
Group Project: Develop the professional management skills required for working in a team to produce a solution to a technical problem. You'll learn to determine basic personality characteristics in self and others, undertaking a rationale analysis of how personality characteristics affect group dynamics, and understand strategies for managing self and others when working in a team. This covers strategies for team building and resolving conflict.
Research Methods: This unit will adequately prepare you for writing a project proposal and for conducting and disseminating your Individual Master's Project. You will develop key research skills in areas such as literature reviews, critical analysis of research findings, project proposals, planning, experiment design and analysis, and dissemination.
Individual Master's Project: Develop an understanding of the characteristics and implications inherent in the solution of a complex, real-world problem by undertaking a substantial, independently-conducted piece of work.
Programme specification
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