Course summary

With the transition to industry 4.0, digital design and manufacturing has become integral to society and is helping drive more efficient and less wasteful production processes. Our Digital Design and Manufacture programme will prepare you for a career in this rapidly changing industry by combining an advance knowledge of the digital technologies employed in advanced manufacture and key entrepreneurial skills. You will learn the fundamentals which underpin digital manufacturing; sensing, automation, information, additive manufacturing, simulation and modelling and will explore how these interact with data and machine learning. How will I learn? You will deepen your knowledge through:

• our academic staff’s expertise on state-of-the-art technologies and emerging trends

• practical activities where you will benefit from our specialist resources and facilities

• our connections with industry

• gaining coding experience and using industry approved software and techniques

• an understanding how to interpret data into successful products

• opportunities to get involved in our world-leading research with an individual research project