MEng Hons Product Design and Manufacture in Nottingham United Kingdom | University of Nottingham

Course introductionOur four-year MEng Product Design and Manufacture program blends creative thinking with engineering fundamentals, offering an extra year to enhance your abilities through additional design projects while deepening your understanding of materials, production processes, and human-centered design. This program fosters outstanding work quality, equipping graduates with exceptional portfolios that make them highly sought-after by industry leaders.From everyday inconveniences to global issues like climate change, our environment presents numerous challenges. Product Designers merge creative, technical, and manufacturing expertise to develop market-ready solutions for these problems.Our curriculum embraces cutting-edge technologies - from digital illustration to advanced 3D printing, rapid prototyping systems, and virtual reality tools - ensuring our graduates enter the contemporary product design field fully prepared.Students explore diverse subjects to build hands-on design capabilities and essential knowledge in manufacturing, materials science, ergonomics, marketing, and other critical areas.Design projects form the core of the program, addressing real-world challenges across multiple industries including healthcare, automotive, packaging, consumer electronics, and household appliances. These projects encourage practical design approaches, applying manufacturing knowledge and engineering concepts. You'll create products and components suitable for mass production while considering commercial viability.Our teaching team combines academic expertise with industry experience, working alongside practicing Product Design professionals to maintain curriculum relevance to current employer needs.Evaluation methodsCourse assignmentsWritten examsCollaborative projectsOral presentationsResearch initiativesHands-on assessmentsCareer prospectsYou'll develop both practical skills and theoretical knowledge to design market-ready products and services for the industrial design sector. Your qualifications will prepare you for roles in small design consultancies as well as major corporations. Furthermore, your communication abilities, problem-solving skills, and innovative thinking will open doors to various alternative career paths.Our alumni have secured positions with leading companies across multiple industries, including:DysonJaguar Land RoverMorphy RichardsBoschUnileverCaterpillarTescoTriumph MotorcyclesSmith and NephewL'Oréal