MEng Hons Product Design and Manufacture with Study Abroad 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 creative output, 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 countless challenges. Product Designers merge creative, technical, and production expertise to develop market-ready solutions for these problems.Our curriculum incorporates cutting-edge technologies - from digital illustration tools to advanced 3D printing, rapid prototyping resources, and virtual reality systems - ensuring our graduates enter the contemporary product design field fully prepared.Students explore diverse subjects to build hands-on design capabilities and essential knowledge across manufacturing processes, material science, human factors, business strategies, and other critical areas.Design projects form the core of the program, addressing real-world challenges across multiple industries including healthcare, automotive, consumer packaging, household appliances, electronics, and beyond. These projects encourage practical design approaches, applying your learned manufacturing and engineering concepts. You'll create products and components suitable for large-scale production while considering commercial viability.Our teaching team combines academic expertise with professional experience, working alongside practicing Product Designers from industry. This collaboration ensures our curriculum aligns with current employer requirements.Evaluation methodsDesign projectsWritten examsCollaborative assignmentsOral presentationsIndependent researchHands-on assessmentsCareer prospectsYou'll develop both practical skills and theoretical knowledge to create market-ready products and services for the industrial design field. Your qualifications will prepare you for positions at small design firms as well as major corporations. Furthermore, your competencies in communication, analytical thinking, and innovation will open doors to various other career paths.Our alumni have secured positions with leading companies across multiple sectors, including:DysonJaguar Land RoverMorphy RichardsBoschUnileverCaterpillarTescoTriumph MotorcyclesSmith and NephewL'Oréal