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Design: Products and Technology MSc at Nottingham Trent University

The Design: Products and Technology MSc course at Nottingham Trent University provides students with a knowledge of the principles and techniques that underpin design.


School: School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment, Nottingham Trent University
Course:  Design: Products and Technology MSc
Location: Nottingham, UK
Course dates: September 2022 to September 2023
Application deadline: 1 September 2022

Design: Products and Technology MSc embraces an extensive range of approaches to design practice – from manufacturing, computer science and advanced internet techniques to artificial intelligence for control, robotics, project management and inclusive design.

For the designers looking to strengthen their technological and manufacturing skills, you'll develop a comprehensive appreciation of the principles and techniques that underpin advanced design solutions.

Through contemporary research and industry-applied briefs and projects, you'll explore the technological relationships, strategies and interfaces between the user and the product in a manufacturing context.

With strong industrial relationships and input, the course ensures a rich multidisciplinary design experience, providing you with the tools, knowledge and critical thinking to drive process and practice in the commercial world.

Accredited by the Chartered Society of Designers (CSD) and the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED), this course is aimed at design professionals or graduates with a design-related honours degree.

You'll develop advanced design, technological and manufacturing skills that will open doors to opportunities from starting your own business to undertaking advanced research studies, and working in manufacturing, design consultancies or development organisations.

Applications to this course have now closed.

Top image: Parametric Practice by student Niu Kang, who graduated in 2018.

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