Modules

Year 1 You’ll be introduced to the fundamental elements of product design and engineering, building your skills in terms of making, thinking and evaluation. Later in the year you’ll explore more complex design issues and skills including digital prototyping and manufacture, inclusive design and human factors. You’ll work on projects such as designing and building water rockets and building an electrical system to measure light. Project work also includes engaging with the Fixperts global community of design innovators to find practical solutions to everyday challenges. You will take four core modules which build on and support each other, developing your specialist knowledge and skills in design practice, design engineering and design technologies. Core modules Design Practice: Creativity, Prototyping and Communication Design Engineering: Fundamentals Design Practice: Inclusive Design Design Technologies: Digital Manufacturing Year 2 In your second year you will learn to develop products for a real market, consider the commercial side of product development – including design for manufacturability and assembly, costing and fulfilment – and learn how to prototype with a range of technologies. You’ll also build on the fundamental engineering topics covered in your first year. Project work covers control systems and includes building a self-balancing robot, modelling dynamics of vehicles and a project that brings together heat transfer and thermal modelling with fluids and structures. Core modules Design Technologies: Interactions and Experiences Design Practice: Design to Market Design Practice: Responsible Design Design Engineering: Systems Optional Placement Year A placement year gives you the opportunity to gain professional experience either through external work placements with industry partners or working on live projects. Final year In your final year you will develop expertise through an advanced engineering project informed by research, such as working on the design and development of bike force pedal sensors for Team GB. Later in the year you’ll undertake a project informed by an industry or research brief which will incorporate the values, principles, skills and experience you have gained in design outcomes that are well resolved and well communicated. Core modules Design Practice: Professional Practices Design Engineering: Specialist Design Technologies: Self-directed Project Design Engineering: Self-directed Project