Dyson School of Design Engineering

Design Engineering integrates analysis, behavioural insights and creative practices to build better futures.

42% female, 57% male, 1% other Gender ratio
58% overseas, 42% home Overseas/home students
Find out what a Design Engineer does

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.

Professor Robert Shorten
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 Engineering
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Dyson School of Design Engineering

Professor Robert Shorten

Head of the Dyson School of Design Engineering

Robert Shorten

Dyson School of Design Engineering

Pierre Pinson

Deputy Head of Department

Pierre Pinson

Dyson School of Design Engineering

Dr Natalia Goehring

Department Operations Manager

Natalia Goehring

Dyson School of Design Engineering

Dr Billy Wu

Director of Research

Billy Wu

Dyson School of Design Engineering

Pelin Demirel

Director of Inclusive Practice

Pelin Demirel

Dyson School of Design Engineering

Dr Shayan Sharif

Director of Education

Shayan Sharifi