| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2025-09-01 | - |
Program Overview
Product Design Engineering, MSc
Combine expertise in design, functionality and engineering to develop technological products of the future with our exciting new Master's in Product Design Engineering.
Overview
Our MSc Product Design Engineering equips you with the skills for future-thinking careers in the engineering aspects of product design. You’ll hone your practical techniques across a range of design and engineering principles, including frugal and inclusive design, the use of tech-supported APIs, and manufacturing with environmental concerns in mind. You’ll discover how to understand trends and bring increasingly sophisticated, technologically compound products to market, using adaptive skills to meet business needs of the future.
School
Engineering
Location
Medway Campus
Duration
- 1 years full-time
- 2 years part-time
Start month
September
Fees
- Home: £11,325
- International: £17,975
What you should know about this course
- This course is taught across Medway Campus in Kent and Greenwich Campus in London
- We offer free transport to Greenwich Campus for modules taught in London
- Ideal for graduates who wish to be at the forefront of engineering with future technologies
- A business-centric course: you'll develop a strong understanding of how to support business growth through research and development.
Entry requirements
UK citizens and permanent residents
- An undergraduate (honours) degree at 2:2, or above, in Engineering or Design (or related environment).
- Applicants without a degree that have professional incorporated and vocational experience (e.g. incorporated engineer status) and demonstrate the potential to succeed on the course.
International entry requirements
- The University of Greenwich accepts a broad range of international qualifications for admission to our courses.
- For detailed information on the academic and English language requirements, please find your country in our directory.
How you will learn
Teaching
- We use different teaching approaches to give you a varied experience. This includes lectures, interactive paper-led discussions and exercises to encourage creative thinking.
- Our taught modules are informed by research. The theory of each topic is accompanied by practical elements covering paper-based, computer-based and hands-on building type challenges.
Class sizes
- For specialist modules, our classes are usually limited to 20 students in lab sessions and 40 in lectures. This helps to create familiarity between students and staff and ensure a great learning experience.
Independent learning
- Our courses are designed to give you the space for exploratory and independent study. You'll work towards individual and group assignments and undertake the preparation/follow-up work associated with lectures, seminars, integrative assignments and laboratory classes.
Assessment
- Students will be assessed through a variety of methods, such as:
- Classroom presentations, discussions and case-studies
- Critical reviews, looking at new areas of research
- Examinations.
Careers and placements
What sort of careers do graduates pursue?
- Our graduates are competent, forward-thinking, business-savvy engineers who can help businesses compete by bringing increasingly sophisticated, technologically complex and technologically compound products to market.
- The course prepares graduates for highly technical and managerial careers. It equips you with the skills to meet current and near-future business needs as well as the lifelong learning capabilities to remain ahead of developments in your field.
Accommodation
- Our Medway halls of residence are all located on-campus, with facilities include an on-site café, launderette and bar. And the halls are located within minutes of the historic Chatham dockyard and Chatham and Gillingham town centres.
- Rooms start at £172.06/wk and include Wi-Fi, utility bills and 24-hour residential support. Our Medway accommodation boasts 350 rooms with 24/7 security, and resident car parking permits are available.
Support and advice
Academic skills and study support
- The course leader has the overall responsibility for your course and will be your first point of contact.
- We also allocate you a personal tutor, who you meet soon after you join the department. Their role is to support your personal and academic development and act as your point of contact for queries or problems.
Support from the department
- We help new students over the first few weeks with our faculty and department induction. This covers the first week of term 1 (September) and term 2 (January). We'll also help you discover the academic and social landscape at Medway Campus.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Combine expertise in design, functionality, and engineering to develop technological products of the future with this exciting new Master's in Product Design Engineering. This MSc equips you with the skills for future-thinking careers in the engineering aspects of product design. You'll hone your practical techniques across a range of design and engineering principles, including frugal and inclusive design, the use of tech-supported APIs, and manufacturing with environmental concerns in mind. You'll discover how to understand trends and bring increasingly sophisticated, technologically compound products to market, using adaptive skills to meet business needs of the future. Graduates of this Product Design Engineering master's course will be ideally placed for highly technical and managerial careers. You'll shape how engineering and technology can be deployed in well-designed contemporary products and play a key role in developing the products of the future.
Outline:
Full-time:
- Year 1:
- Diversity and Inclusivity by Design (30 credits)
- Individual Research Project (60 credits)
- Research, Planning and Communication (15 credits)
- Computer Aided Manufacturing (15 credits)
- Modern Materials (15 credits)
- Collaborative Design & Problem Solving (15 credits)
- Product Design Engineering (30 credits)
- Part-time:
- Year 1:
- Diversity and Inclusivity by Design (30 credits)
- Research, Planning and Communication (15 credits)
- Modern Materials (15 credits)
- Year 2:
- Individual Research Project (60 credits)
- Computer Aided Manufacturing (15 credits)
- Collaborative Design & Problem Solving (15 credits)
Teaching:
- Teaching methods include lectures, interactive paper-led discussions and exercises to encourage creative thinking.
- Taught modules are informed by research.
- Theory is accompanied by practical elements covering paper-based, computer-based and hands-on building type challenges.
- Class sizes are usually limited to 20 students in lab sessions and 40 in lectures.
- Lectures are delivered by members of the School of Engineering and the School of Design who have the relevant globally recognised specialism within the respective field.
- Guest speakers bring additional perspectives from industry or research and keep you updated with the latest industry standards in your discipline.
Careers:
- Graduates are competent, forward-thinking, business-savvy engineers who can help businesses compete by bringing increasingly sophisticated, technologically complex and technologically compound products to market.
- The course prepares graduates for highly technical and managerial careers.
- It equips you with the skills to meet current and near-future business needs as well as the lifelong learning capabilities to remain ahead of developments in your field.
Other:
- This course is taught across Medway Campus in Kent and Greenwich Campus in London.
- A business-centric course: you'll develop a strong understanding of how to support business growth through research and development.
- Home/international fees 2024/25 £11,000 /£17,450
- Part time £1,850 per 30 credits
- International £2,908 per 30 credits
