Product Design BSc (Hons)

De Montfort University

Bachelor's degree

In Leicester

£ 7,919.85 VAT inc.

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Original amount in EUR:

9,250 €

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Leicester

  • Duration

    3 Years

Our Product Design course helps you to take your imaginative ideas and make them real. To do that you need both the creativity and the technical skills to bring your ideas to life.

On this course you’ll study the fundamentals of maths and science, electrical, electronic and mechanical principles, and simulation and fluid dynamics, as well as the functional and market-led requirements of product design.

You’ll look at specific areas including technology integration, computer-aided design (CAD) and 3D design, sustainability and design for manufacture, and be taught by academics with current industry connections.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Leicester (Leicestershire)
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The Gateway, LE1 9BH

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About this course

This course gives you the option to enhance and build your professional skills to progress within your chosen career, through a placement. Our dedicated team offers a range of careers resources and opportunities so you can start planning your future.

We have excellent industry links, ensuring you work on relevant projects and clients briefs to grow your experience and build your external reputation before you graduate. This invaluable experience can enrich student capabilities and their final-year projects. Recent placements include Bosch, BMW, and JCB.

Our graduates have gone on to work in a variety of areas within industrial product design, including marketing, industrial design consultancy, user experience consultancy and project planning, product design and furniture design. Recent employers include BMW, Dyson, ASSEAL and JCB

A good portfolio and normally:

Art and Design Foundation or
112 points from at least 2 A ‘levels and including grade C in Art and Design or
BTEC Extended Diploma DMM in an Art and Design related subject or
International Baccalaureate: 26+ Points including Art and Design

Institution of Engineering Designers (IED)

Key features

Our course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers – this enables graduates to work towards membership.
Gain professional experience with industry professionals during an optional placement year. Our students have benefited from placements at BMW, Dyson, Cambridge Consultants and Jaguar Land Rover.
Boost your portfolio and profile by entering national and international competitions. We support students to do this by helping them apply their practical knowledge to real-world briefs and assisting with teamwork, motivation, and a review of learnings following competitions. Our students have previously won awards from D&AD, James Dyson and New Designers.
Learn from academic staff currently involved in commercial projects with companies such as Berghaus and Adidas.
The award-winning Vijay Patel Building provides both the space and the facilities to foster creative thinking, where ideas can develop and flourish for all our art and design course students. You will have access to engineering laboratories that bring together a wide range of equipment used in design, manufacture, prototyping and testing.
We provide core workshop materials at no cost, and give cash awards – £150, £200 and £300 in years one, two and three respectively – to support personal materials/printing costs.*

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Subjects

  • Staff
  • IT
  • Design
  • CAD
  • Computer Aided Design
  • Technology
  • Product Design

Course programme

First year
  • The Principles of Design
  • CAD for Product Designers 1
  • Electrical Principles 1
  • Electrical Principles 2
  • Mechanical Principles: Statics
  • Mechanical Principles: Dynamics
  • Workshop Practice
Second year
  • Design Practise 2
  • CAD for Product Designers 2
  • Materials Engineering and Processing
  • Project Management
  • Applied Electronics
  • Product Design
Third year
  • Industrial Design Projects
  • Product Communication and Career Launch Marketing
  • Electronic and Mechanical Systems
Teaching and assessments

Overview

The curriculum is focussed on vocational skills, engineering knowledge and intellectual development – encompassing a broad range of content from design, manufacturing to ethics. Coursework and examinations are the main methods of learning and assessment.

You will be taught by design academics and visiting design consultants with specialist knowledge and skills in either product or furniture design. Our staff have all worked in industry and carry out commercial activity and research. Visiting lecturers support week-long projects or conduct weekly seminars, tutorials or lecture series. Visiting lecturers include Steve Mosley (Director, Mosley&), Matthew Cockerill (Associate Design Director, Seymourpowell), Marcus Atkin (Director, Out of the Bubble Design), Martin Jones (Retail Lab), and designers and model makers from Redline Studios.

Contact hours

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work and self-directed study. Assessment is through coursework (presentations, essays and reports) Your precise timetable will depend on the optional modules you choose to take, however, in your first year you will normally attend around 13 hours of timetabled taught sessions (lectures and tutorials) each week, and we expect you to undertake at least 25 further hours of independent study to complete project work and research.

Additional information

UCAS course code: W242

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Product Design BSc (Hons)

£ 7,919.85 VAT inc.

*Indicative price

Original amount in EUR:

9,250 €

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