Product Design and Manufacture including an Integrated Study Abroad Year
Entry requirements
A level
Including Mathematics. Art or Design and Technology are also desirable as second subjects for the course but are not required. Excluding General Studies, Critical Thinking, Citizenship Studies, CIE Global Perspectives and Research, CIE Thinking Skills.
The Access to HE Diploma is not accepted for this course. Applicants should apply for the relevant BEng course.
Cambridge International Pre-U Certificate - Principal
Including M2 in Mathematics
Extended Project
If you have already achieved your EPQ at grade A you will automatically be offered one grade lower in a non-mandatory A level subject. If you are still studying for your EPQ you will receive the standard course offer, and an alternative offer, with a condition of one grade lower in a non-mandatory A level subject if you achieve an A grade in your EPQ. If you qualify for a contextual offer, your EPQ will be taken into consideration and the appropriate adjustment will be made to your offer. Please note that if you qualify for an enhanced contextual offer, your EPQ will not be taken into consideration as we are unable to make any further adjustments to your offer.
GCSE/National 4/National 5
GCSE requirements for all applicants - English grade C/4 or equivalent
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
Including Mathematics: Analysis and Approaches - 5 at Higher Level or 7 at Standard Level or Mathematics: Applications and Interpretation – 5 at Higher Level only. Visual Arts is desirable for the course (but not required).
Applicants should apply for the relevant Beng course.
BTEC only accepted when National Extended Certificate/ BTEC Subsidiary Diploma D combined with AB, including A Level Maths.
The BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma is not accepted for this course. Applicants should apply for the relevant BEng course.
Scottish Advanced Higher
Advanced Higher grades AA including Mathematics plus Higher grades AABBB
Scottish Higher
This qualification is only acceptable when combined with Advanced Higher grade AA including Mathematics
A level mathematics also required. For applicants with T Level qualifications without A level mathematics the Foundation Year (H100) is recommended.
Accepted and graded equally to A Levels
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About this course
Our four-year MEng Product Design and Manufacture course combines creativity with engineering principles and gives an additional year to further develop your skills through more design projects and to expand your knowledge of materials, manufacturing and human factors. This course produces exceptionally high-quality work and leads to students with truly impressive portfolios of work who are in high demand by employers.
The world around us is full of problems, some small inconveniences and other global challenges such as climate change. Product Designers combine a broad range of creative, engineering and manufacturing skills to produce commercially viable solutions to these problems.
Our course utilises modern technology - from digital sketching through to high end 3D printing, rapid prototyping facilities and virtual reality equipment, to ensure our graduates leave prepared for the modern world of product design.
Students study a broad range of modules to develop practical design skills and knowledge in key areas including manufacturing, materials, ergonomics, marketing and more.
Project work is a key part of the course, responding to challenges in a variety of sectors including medical, automotive, packaging, appliances and electronic goods and many more. Projects enable you to take a realistic approach to design, utilising your taught knowledge of manufacturing and engineering principles. You’ll develop products and components that are appropriate for mass manufacture and consider commercial factors.
Our courses are delivered by academic staff who have industrial experience, in conjunction with Product Designers who currently work in industrial roles. This ensures that our course is relevant to the current needs of employers.
Modules
The first year shares many modules with the department's other engineering degrees and will therefore give you a broad foundation in engineering science and design, manufacturing processes, material selection and behaviour, mathematics and business studies.
You will develop further design skills and commercial awareness in year two. You continue to develop design skills through project work and the modules studied become more in-depth. This includes a major design project undertaken in the final semester along with a dissertation.
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University Park Campus
Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
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Graduates are in significant demand, so unemployment rates are well below the national graduate average and starting salaries are well above average. Much the most common industries for these graduates are now vehicle manufacture - there are not enough people with these degrees to go round and so the big employers tend to take the lion's share at the moment. But pretty much anywhere there is manufacturing, there are production engineers. Bear in mind that a lot of courses are four years long, and lead to an MEng qualification — this is necessary if you want to become a Chartered Engineer.
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Production and manufacturing engineering
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