Course Overview

This course addresses the issues associated with a rapidly changing market and the demands for better, cheaper and personalised products developed within the shortest possible time.

Ecological and ‘green’ constraints weigh significantly on engineering designers, and these pressures are likely to increase very considerably during the careers of today’s students. We consider the need for significant change in the design philosophy employed in industrialised manufacture and product development and responses to those pressures including legislation and standards, alternative processes and materials and design for a small and large-scale resource economy.

Design engineers are problem-solvers who bridge the gap between traditional engineering and design. It's a discipline that draws on product development knowledge, technical design, manufacturing techniques and rapid prototyping to bring innovations to market. It also focuses on improving existing products and the processes used for making them.

Some of the most outstanding human achievements have come from creative design engineering, enabling the realisation of remarkable changes in our world. Design engineering has helped to transform the environment, create incredible superstructures on land and sea, and even allowed people to travel into the solar system.

Design engineering has also developed many critical systems and services, from individual to global and universal scales. These systems have supported the radical scaling up of human activity in many areas.

General Eligibility

Academic requirements

Typically, a first-class or second-class honours degree (or international equivalent) in a relevant engineering, technology or science discipline.

Part Time Work Details

20 hours of work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• IELTS 6.0 overall (no individual band less than 5.5)