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Product Design and Manufacture BEng

University Park Campus, Nottingham, UK

Course overview

Our three-year BEng Product Design and Manufacture course combines creativity with engineering principles and provides students with all the necessary skills to enter a design facing career.

The world around us is full of problems, some small inconveniences and other global challenges such as climate change. Product Designers combine a broad range of creative, engineering and manufacturing skills to produce commercially viable solutions to these problems.

Indicative modules

Mandatory

Year 1

Drawing for Design

Mandatory

Year 1

Dynamics of Mechanical Systems

Mandatory

Year 1

Engineering Design Project

Mandatory

Year 1

Industrial Design 1: An Introduction

Mandatory

Year 1

Materials and Manufacturing

Mandatory

Year 1

Mathematics for Engineers

Mandatory

Year 1

Statistics and Mechanics of Solids

Mandatory

Year 2

Design Communication

Mandatory

Year 2

Industrial Design 2: Skills and Knowledge

Mandatory

Year 2

Materials and Manufacture 2: Design for Manufacture

Mandatory

Year 2

Materials in Design

Mandatory

Year 2

Projects 1: Developing Design Project Skills

Mandatory

Year 2

Projects 2: Group Design Projects

Mandatory

Year 2

User Centred Research and Design

Mandatory

Year 3

BEng Major Design Project

Mandatory

Year 3

Industrial Design 3: Engineering Ecology and Analysis

Mandatory

Year 3

Major Project Preparation

Mandatory

Year 3

Materials and Manufacture 3: Polymer and Timber Processes

Mandatory

Year 3

Projects 3: Technical Design Projects

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About modules

The above is a sample of the typical modules we offer, but is not intended to be construed or relied on as a definitive list of what might be available in any given year. This content was last updated on Monday 14 October 2024. Due to timetabling availability, there may be restrictions on some module combinations.

University undergraduate student Cole Pearce studying in Nightingale Hall accommodation's library, University Park. November 5th 2021.

The Product Design and Manufacture course at the University of Nottingham is the perfect fusion of Design and Engineering. It offers you full scope to enhance your creative and technical knowledge, giving you the maximum potential to advance a design from the initial research and design stage to the high-level prototyping and CAD stage, ensuring its readiness for manufacture. The inclusion of both creative and technical aspects in this course provides a freedom for creativity in design, using knowledge gained of the necessary mechanical and ergonomic applications. 

Jessica Page

Product Design and Manufacture student

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