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Product Engineering Design
MSc/PgDip/PgCert

The Master’s programme in Product Engineering Design has been designed to provide a physical product-focused engineering design postgraduate training. Graduates of the MSc/Postgraduate Diploma in Product Engineering Design (PED) will become a new generation of professional product engineering designers who will be able to apply their knowledge, experience and skills in engineering design with confidence to design and engineer solutions to industrial and domestic design problems. Graduates can contribute significantly to wealth generation by creating innovative products which have clear functional purpose and market targets. These products are so unique and can meet the market needs in totality, ranging from aesthetical, functional and suitable to lifecycle requirements.

The course aims to provide students with a thorough understanding of the methods, techniques and tools used in engineering products. Traditional and advanced computer-support techniques, such as design methods, product design techniques, finite element analysis, product visualisation, including 3-D visualisation, will be introduced in the course. Graduates will enhance their understanding of, and skills in, design process and product development, computer aided design, rapid prototyping and model making. This course addresses recent rapidly changing market demands for better, sustainable, cheaper and personalised products developed within a range of resources constraints, such as in the shortest possible time and within available budget.

This new product-focused course will provide students with a thorough training in design theories and process models, design methods, design techniques, computer-supported product modelling, analysis, evaluation and digital and physical rapid prototyping of a design solution. This better understanding of the design process to design a product, coupled with practical experience gained during the training, will provide a solid foundation and advanced techniques enabling students to develop the most suitable products in their future career.

Unique Course Features

  • The course is delivered by leading internationally-renowned researchers in the fields of computer aided engineering design, computer modelling, systems integration, rapid prototyping, computer visualisation and product development. Examples of such high-profile teaching staff include Professor Alex Duffy - past President of the Design Society, Professor Jonathan Corney - Chairman of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Edinburgh), Professor William Ion – Operations Director of the AFRC and Dr. Xiu-Tian Yan - Vice Chairman of The Mechatronics Forum.
  • Design theory based on the well-known and established Total Design Process Model, developed by Stuart Pugh, a previous Head of Department;
  • A unique Postgraduate Group Project provides industry-related training experience in applying the techniques and theories taught in the course into a real computer aided engineering design and analysis project with local industrial partners;
  • Accreditation by relevant professional bodies is under way
  • The course is supported by a state-of-the-art Digital Design and Manufacture Studio and prototype workshops, providing the latest 3-D visualisation technology, transitional machineries such as CNC machine tools, digital modelling suites, a computer aided engineering system development environment, digital model rapid prototyping machines enabling product engineers and designers to rapidly realise their design in a physical form;
  • A friendly study environment where staff are very approachable and helpful, as indicated by our students’ survey

Who is the Course aimed at?

  • Graduates from relevant engineering, such as mechanical, manufacturing engineering, computer science or other product-development related courses who wish to study further the product engineering and development skills in applying the theory into developing engineering products as their chosen career;
  • Engineers or product-related practitioners working in product engineering design, engineering project management, engineering analysis and associated supporting functions, who wish to enhance their theoretical grounding as well as gain better understanding of techniques, methodologies, latest computer aided engineering design and analysis concepts, and tools used in creating engineering products following appropriate product development process and employing suitable computer support tools

 

Course Structure and Contents

The course is designed to provide high-calibre graduates with an in-depth understanding of product engineering knowledge, skills and ability to create innovative products following rigorous design process models and methodologies in order to meet the increasing interests and global demand for qualified product engineering designers, and product development project managers.

The course programme comprises the following Compulsory modules:

  • CAED Systems
  • Product Modelling and Visualisation
  • Product Design Techniques
  • Design Management
  • Postgraduate Group Project
  • Postgraduate Individual Project

And the following optional modules:

  • Information Technology
  • Project Management
  • Risk Management
  • Systems Integration
  • Knowledge Engineering and Management for Engineers
  • Design Methods
  • Sustainable Product Design and Manufacture

MSc Entry Requirements

 

MSc: First or second class honours degree in relevant Engineering, Physics or other relevant Technology subject discipline from a UK university (or equivalent). Candidates with lesser qualifications who have appropriate professional or industrial experience may be eligible also.

 

PgDip/PgCert: Degree, good HND or equivalent. Applicants with a pass degree, good HND or equivalent, together with relevant industrial experience, will be considered on an individual basis.

Progress from PgDip on to the MSc programme is possible, subject to satisfactory performance. Please contact us to discuss your individual circumstances.

 

 

 

Course Length

  • MSc:12 months full-time; 24 months part-time
  • PgDip: 9 months full-time; 21 months part-time


Course fees

    • Home fees £3600 (subject to increase for 2013-14)
    • Overseas fees £15600

Contact

Postgraduate Admissions, DMEM, University of Strathclyde, James Weir Building, 75 Montrose Street, Glasgow G1 1XJ, Great Britain.

Phone: +44 (0) 141 548 2424

Fax: +44 (0) 141 552 7986

Email: pgadmissions@dmem.strath.ac.uk

http://www.strath.ac.uk/dmem/


Application Process

To apply for a course click on the 'Apply' button in the appropriate blue box below this text.


for Sep 2013 entry to full-time MSc product engineering design (Admission Code : DMMS22)

Postgraduate entry requirements are in our prospectus.

for Sep 2013 entry to part-time MSc product engineering design (Admission Code : DMMS23)

Postgraduate entry requirements are in our prospectus.

for Sep 2013 entry to full-time PG Diploma product engineering design (Admission Code : DMPD22)

Postgraduate entry requirements are in our prospectus.

for Sep 2013 entry to part-time PG Diploma product engineering design (Admission Code : DMPD23)

Postgraduate entry requirements are in our prospectus.

Postgraduate Courses

Global Innovation Management

Supply Chain Management (Suite)

Operations Management in Engineering

Lean Six Sigma for Process Excellence

 

Computer Aided Engineering Design

Digital Creativity

Product Engineering Design

Sustainable Engineering - Sustainable Product Development

 

Advanced Manufacturing: Technology and Systems

Mechatronics & Automation

 

 






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