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Product Design and Manufacture including an Industrial Year BEng

University Park Campus, Nottingham, UK

Course overview

Our four-year BEng Product Design and Manufacture course includes an industrial year during which students will gain real-world experience within design or a similar field. The course combines creativity with engineering principles and provide 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

Year in industry

Mandatory

Year 4

BEng Major Design Project

Mandatory

Year 4

Industrial Design 3: Engineering Ecology and Analysis

Mandatory

Year 4

Major Project Preparation

Mandatory

Year 4

Materials and Manufacture 3: Polymer and Timber Processes

Mandatory

Year 4

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 Tuesday 15 October 2024. Due to timetabling availability, there may be restrictions on some module combinations.

Whilst on the course we have looked at and designed a wide variety of products from medical items to kitchenware, giving us experience of designing for different sectors.  I’m doing my placement year with Mondelez International and am working in seasonal packaging. It’s enabled me to gain experience in the FMCG sector and increased my expertise in a variety of areas such as CAD and the awareness of manufacturing.

Emma Hill

Product Design and Manufacture student

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