Dyson School of Design Engineering
Design Engineering integrates analysis, behavioural insights and creative practices to build better futures.
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An introduction to Design Engineering
As design engineers, we create solutions to complex societal challenges. We empower innovators and decision-makers to harness the power of a rigorous and creative discipline that constructs better social and technical systems using new technologies as building blocks. By fusing the technical to the human, we’re helping to create a world that’s just, sustainable, and teeming with possibilities.
It is a highly creative discipline that draws on knowledge of manufacturing techniques, product development, technical design and rapid prototyping to bring new innovations to market, and to improve existing products and the processes used for making them.
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Engineers have traditionally focussed on the design of “better things”. Climate change, sustainability, and the need for socially just transition to net zero, have made it clear to the world, that making “better things” is not the same as “making things better”. It is precisely this gap that we are seeking to narrow at the Dyson School of Design Engineering. Professor Robert Shorten Head of the Dyson School of Design EngineeringA message from the Head of Department
Department leadership
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Professor Robert Shorten
Head of the Dyson School of Design Engineering
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Pierre Pinson
Deputy Head of Department
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Dr Natalia Goehring
Department Operations Manager
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Dr Billy Wu
Director of Research
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Pelin Demirel
Director of Inclusive Practice
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Dr Shayan Sharif
Director of Education