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MSc - Master of Science
Brunel University of London
Full Time
Jan 2027
27 Month
This course focuses on the design of innovative products, emphasising the balance between the interest of users, industry, society and the environment. It covers the whole design process, integrating all aspects relevant to product development - technology, management, aesthetics, sustainability, ergonomics, marketing, business and design methods - to produce highly qualified and sought after designers able to cope with the challenges the global economy presents.You’ll have access to modern facilities that include a dedicated master’s design studio and extensive prototyping workshops. The practical knowledge you gain is transferable to industry and provides you with a comprehensive skillset for global product and services design research and development.Our integrated product design course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) and is studied full-time over one year. We encourage you to make use of our good links with industrial colleagues and undertake an optional industrial placement as part of your dissertation project over the summer. A placement gives you the opportunity to put what you’ve learnt into practice, and to apply it to a real working environment.Made in Brunel is a unique, student-led initiative that showcases our design talent at its finest. Each year our students run a series of industry and community events leading up to the Made in Brunel exhibition. This annual showcase is a highlight of the London design calendar and promotes the incredible work our students produce to the creative community, and is your chance to network with key design professionals.If you are interested in turning a product or technology idea into a business after your postgraduate studies, we are in partnership with the Central Research Laboratory (CRL), a design incubator for start-ups. You’ll have access to meeting rooms and work space as well as prototyping facilities. A team of in-house professionals will guide and support you at each stage and a number of our previous entrepreneurial students have successfully commercialised their products.
This module aims to identify technical challenges in design modelling, communications and design integration in the context of global product design and development, to critically review IT technologies, computer aided design, evaluation and integration techniques in a range of integrated product design activities, to develop in depth knowledge in creative and virtual design theories, methods and evaluation tools, and to familiarise students with a range of different types of IT, CAD, CAE and UX/UI software enabling them to make informed evaluations of current and future systems.
This module aims to establish clearly the relationship between and value of future forecasting and design strategy and innovation, to engage with the complexity of future forecasting and its’ implications for design-led management of change, and to incorporate the influence of current and future trends into recommendations from students own design and innovation research.
The dissertation allows students to research and critically evaluate well formulated specialist integrated product design research questions derived from their taught modules, key published research, seminar programme and the practical experience of the design research project. It aims for students to demonstrate an advanced use of digital design methodologies, design management and innovation, product design simulation and manufacturing technologies and conceptual tools derived from previous modules.
This module aims to provide students with the theoretical underpinning combined practical knowledge and skills in order to use enhanced creative skills and visual understanding as an integral part of their design practice, and at a level appropriate for the global and professional aims of the course.
This module aims to develop an understanding of the physical, perceptual, cognitive and emotional characteristics of humans, to use the main qualitative and analytical methods of human centred design, to illustrate the practical application of human centred design techniques by means of examples chosen from the product, system and service industries, and to develop skills in multi-disciplinary thinking and multi-disciplinary design practice.
The main aim of the module is to expand and deepen students’ knowledge of the design process. The module encourages students to: form strong, educated opinions about the broader social, environmental, economic and technological role of design in society and to be able to communicate and argue their opinions confidently; develop an awareness of current and emerging methodological and theoretical approaches to design practice; to apply higher level design process skills and related research methods to a specific contemporary or emerging design context and produce designed deliverables in response to this context. Studio design projects include both academic and live projects offered by industry partners.
This module aims to identify the key current issues for the environment and socio-economic issues related to sustainability, to develop in depth knowledge of Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and its strengths and its weaknesses, to conduct a streamlined environmental review of a product in the earliest stages of the design process, to evaluate a range of different views on environmental issues and practices, and to compare and contrast case studies of sustainable design practice.
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