BSc (Hons) Engineering Product Design
Overview
Concept, prototype, product
Do you blend creative thinking with scientific insight? You could be an engineering product designer, creating products that solve everything from minor problems, like a leaky teapot, to major questions, like how to launch lifeboats faster.
This is one of the few design courses in the UK to be accredited for Incorporated Engineer, bridging the gap between product design and mechanical engineering. If you’re someone who can understand the engineering, and then wants to use it to start making things and designing real-world solutions, then this is the course for you.
Why study Engineering Product Design at LSBU?
- Professionally accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED).
- Our staff are experts with a great network of contacts.
- It’s project-focused: you’ll spend most of your time in the studio/workshop making creative products that answer a brief. You’ll get to develop products from concept to final model and/or prototype using our exceptional facilities.
- Get to know the industry with guest lectures from established companies like LEGO and Dyson, alongside smaller startups who are creating new designs for our future.
- Boost your employability with an optional paid professional work experience placement in your third year.
- Ranked 3rd for overall student satisfaction, Mechanical Engineering (National Student Survey 2019).
- Ranked 1st for student experience and teaching quality in the UK (Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020).
Modules
New technologies are constantly changing the way engineering designers approach problem-solving. We’ll keep you up-to-date with the latest design and manufacturing technologies.
First, we’ll build your core skills and experience: the production of design drawings, digital design skills in CAD and graphics, technical engineering analysis, presentation and communication skills and the production of working prototypes. Then, we’ll give you a platform to experience the industry and build your network through live briefs, industry career talks, work placements and your final year degree show.
Methods of assessment for course overall: 96% coursework.
Year 1
- Design methods
- Digital design and modelling
- Introduction to mechanical and electronic engineering
- Engineering mathematics
- Visual Communications
Year 2
- Design thinking and applications
- Virtual engineering and CAD
- Mechatronics
- Solid mechanics and FEA
- Design contexts and communications
- Design and manufacture project
Year 3
- Optional Placement year
Year 4
- Engineering design project
- Research methods for design projects
- Portfolio engineering projects
- Innovation and enterprise
Final year degree show
The final year of the course revolves around the delivery of a major design project. You’ll be required to design, develop, prototype and manufacture a product to your own specifications. You’ll need to choose the appropriate manufacturing techniques and materials to make and test a working prototype of your product using our innovative IT and workshop facilities. The result will be showcased at the University’s annual design show.
Entry requirements
2018 Entry
- A Level BBB (must include Maths) or;
- BTEC National Diploma DDM or;
- Access to HE qualifications with 24 Distinctions and 21 Merits, must include a minimum of 3 Merits in Design Technology, Maths and Physics or;
- Equivalent level 3 qualifications worth 122 UCAS points
- Level 3 qualifications must include Maths or Physics
- Applicants must hold 5 GCSEs A-C including Maths and English or equivalent (reformed GCSEs grade 4 or above).
- We welcome qualifications from around the world. English language qualifications for international students: IELTS score of 6.0 or Cambridge Proficiency or Advanced Grade C.
Applicants are normally interviewed before being offered a place and are asked to bring along a portfolio of work. For more guidance on what to include in your portfolio, please see the ‘Interviews and Portfolios’ guide in the ‘prepare to start’ section.
Advanced entry
If you have already completed some studies at another university, we may be able to consider you for advanced entry. Please see our advanced entry page for more information.
We offer the opportunity for all undergraduate Home/EU students to undertake a work placement, internship or work experience while studying a full-time course starting in September 2020.