Our five-year MEng in Product Design and Manufacture incorporates an industrial year for hands-on experience in design or related fields. It integrates creative approaches with engineering fundamentals, offering an extra year to enhance skills through design projects and deepen understanding of materials, manufacturing, and human factors. Graduates produce high-quality work, building impressive portfolios that attract employers. Product designers address real-world issues, from minor inconveniences to global challenges like climate change, by applying creative, engineering, and manufacturing expertise to develop viable solutions.The program employs advanced technologies, including digital sketching, 3D printing, rapid prototyping, and virtual reality, to prepare students for contemporary design demands. It covers a wide array of modules in manufacturing, materials, ergonomics, marketing, and more, with project-based learning in sectors such as medical, automotive, and electronics. Delivered by industry-experienced academics and professionals, the course emphasizes practical application and commercial viability. Students undertake an industrial placement between their third and fourth years, supported by faculty teams for applications, events, and reintegration, followed by advanced projects in year five.
The first year offers a broad foundation in engineering science and design, manufacturing processes, material selection and mathematics. Example modules include Drawing for Design, Statics and Mechanics of Solids, and Materials and Manufacturing. In year two, you will develop your design skills and commercial awareness whilst working on multiple design projects. In the third year you will take an individual project as well as core modules in product development, ergonomics and manufacturing processes. At the end of year three you will work a year in industry whilst receiving support from your tutor and our industrial placements team. Year five will give you the opportunity to undertake a major project with industry whilst you undertake further modules in project management and ergonomics.
A local representative of University of Nottingham in Singapore is available online to assist you with enquiries about this course.