Cleantech Innovation

Develop ideas as a team to address climate change challenges through lectures, workshops, and hands-on prototyping.

Develop your customer discovery skills to tailor solutions to customer needs, learn about Cleantech financing and pitching, and engage with industry experts to foster an innovative mindset and develop practical approaches to sustainability challenges as a team.

As a team, engage in advanced prototyping and asset creation to work on your Cleantech Innovation, to design and test both hardware and software solutions in team settings.

Delve into the science of climate change, explore potential solutions and their implementation factors, including policy and economics, and choose a Cleantech theme to formulate your innovation proposal.

Build your ability to tackle complex, real-world challenges by learning key design engineering approaches, tools, and mindsets. You’ll explore a systematic process for developing innovative solutions, gaining practical experience in synthesising insights from diverse sources and identifying clear opportunities. Through this project based learning model, you’ll also develop divergent thinking skills to generate a wide range of creative concepts and solutions.

Through Undaunted, you will collaborate with a start-up from the Greenhouse for 8-9 weeks to apply your skills in a real world cleantech venture context.

Deepen your understanding of your innovation project through learning about Life Cycle Assessment and social impacts, focusing on the measurement and considerations necessary for the development and deployment of potential innovations.

Synthesize your accumulated knowledge from the MSc program and contextualise your cleantech innovation project through compelling communication of your findings.

Develop advanced industrial design skills through a focus on emerging tools, themes, and methods. You will refine CAD techniques for generative design and virtual prototyping, and produce high-quality visualisations suitable for professional portfolios and international competitions.

Explore the foundations of audio technology and perception, including acoustics, psychoacoustics, digital signal processing, and techniques for recording and reproducing sound. You will also engage with topics such as 3D audio, data sonification, and loudspeaker design.

Learn to design data-driven products through modern data science approaches.

Investigate the sharing economy as a shift from ownership to access, enabled by digital platforms and driven by active participants. Explore how prosumers reshape consumption, and examine both the potential and the challenges of designing fair, efficient, and resilient collaborative systems.

Equips aspiring engineers and designers with the expertise to leverage Industry 4.0 through additive manufacturing and 3D printing, to address future industry challenges.

Learn about the critical role of visual data in modern engineering systems, covering the human visual system and technologies for acquiring and analysing visual information, complemented by practical exercises to apply this knowledge to real-life problems.

Develop your competence in scoping, analysing and developing creative interventions for behaviour change.

Possible interventions include wearables to improve health, products for more sustainable consumption and policy to improve tech-enabled business models.

You will be exposed to several creative behavioural frameworks that can be applied to the development of (digital and physical) product, service, event, policy and organisational interventions.

Next, you will work as a team to analyse and develop an intervention of your own.

Learning is enhanced through interactive workshops and discussions complemented by individual and group learning activities to translate your understanding into real-world contexts.

Develop core skills in microeconomics, finance, and decision-making to assess the economic performance of engineering systems. You will apply both deterministic and uncertainty-based methods to real-world case studies, building the tools to evaluate financial viability and design for flexibility in complex environments.

Learn how to make sense of data in the social and behavioural sciences by exploring how patterns, differences, and relationships can be discovered and explained. You will practise cleaning and preparing data, choosing the right approach for different questions, and clearly reporting your findings using tools like SPSS, R, and Matlab.

Gain a practical introduction to machine learning through a design engineering lens, exploring core concepts, key algorithms, and hands-on methods in regression and classification. You will develop a working understanding of how intelligent systems learn from data, and engage with both foundational approaches and emerging techniques.

Explore nanotechnology fundamentals through lectures and workshops, to create nanotech-driven design concepts in a culminating virtual project.

Navigate the ethical dimensions of technology product development and the broader impacts on society through a lens of philosophy and psychology to foster the creation of better, more responsible products.

Explore the development of Internet of Things platforms through practical engagement with software and hardware tools, gathering data from mobile and social sensors, analysing patterns, triggering intelligent responses, and applying insights from data mining to create responsive and connected systems.

Explore how to design for positive impact by creating more sustainable and resilient products, services, and systems. You will learn practical tools for reducing environmental impact, promoting sustainable practices, and developing strong value propositions that drive change and communicate ideas effectively.

Gain a comprehensive overview of sustainable energy storage devices and systems for design engineers.

You will explore a range of advanced energy storage technologies, including cutting-edge batteries, novel energy storage concepts, and integrated energy systems for a variety of practical applications.

Gain insight into sustainable resource management to conserve materials and energy, preserve natural resources and protect public health and the ecosystem.