Design Engineering

Explore design engineering in a global and professional context and how design engineering issues are creatively tackled.

Better understand computer programming through a hands-on approach and build your appreciation of the Python programming language and supporting tools.

Analyse the mathematical tools and techniques used to tackle a variety of design engineering problems.

Identify common engineering materials and the means to manufacture them into geometries.

Develop competence in creative human-centred design engineering and improve your skills in design drawing, engineering drawing and 3D computer aided design.

Explore a wide range of datasets, to perform data analysis and use key insights from statistics and machine learning. 

Learn how to link force and displacement using laws of physics and how this can be used to model several real-world problems.

Develop your understanding of analogue and digital electronics as found in all electronics systems.

Your I-Explore module offers you choices from a range of subjects hosted outside of the department. 

You will be taught alongside students from other courses with options including business, management and many more.

Examine key challenges for sustainability and specific principles and methods for sustainable design.

Combine the approaches of physical computing and mechatronics and distinguish between a wide range of standard machine elements and electronic components.

Progress your knowledge from Solid Mechanics 1 by advancing your understanding of kinematics and stress analysis.

Gain a system perspective on electronic systems and improve your understanding of signal interpretation, processing and manipulation.

Use finite element programs in a practical way to solve problems in linear elastic stress analysis.

Consider the topic of energy within a design context and the associated engineering sciences of fluid mechanics, heat transfer and thermodynamics.

Carry out a project brief that integrates a human-centred design approach with the creative design engineering of a complex electromechanical product.

Discover the range of organisations Design Engineers operate in and consider the current and future professional landscape, together with effectively preparing to best position yourselves on a career route that is most relevant and exciting.

Build upon your knowledge from Computing 1 by examining application programming with a particular focus on web applications and the technologies associated with this. You will assess user interface and experience, accessing and manipulating data sources, and client-server architectures.

Work on an engineering design interdisciplinary group project and improve your project management and concept development skills.

Build your foundational knowledge of the field of robotics and explore robot control and motion planning algorithms.

Appreciate the practical aspects of robotics through tutorial and lab sessions that enable you to build hands-on experience in the field.

Assess common system design and engineering optimisation problems and use appropriate tools to solve them.

Explore entrepreneurial thinking styles that are important in developing radical forms of innovation.

Gain practical industry experience on a substantial design engineering related project, or collection of related projects.

Obtain a high level understanding of contemporary industrial design principles, and better understand industrial design process tools.

Deepen your knowledge of the basic principles of acoustics and digital signal processing and the physiology of the hearing system.

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

Advance your understanding of machine learning in a design engineering context and the mathematical tools that underpin it.

Assess the economic performance of engineering systems and products through a range of core principles.

Learn the relevant basics to analyse interaction within systems as games. Understand principles to describe agents and the type of games they are involved in.

Choose from a range of optional modules as you develop your distinct professional identity.

Explore sustainable energy storage systems including advanced batteries, novel concepts, and integrated designs for electronics, vehicles, etc. Topics include materials, device design, fabrication, property testing, and sustainability assessment.

In this module, you will be introduced to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), covering key concepts, principles, and techniques for creating effective digital interfaces while highlighting the importance of equality, diversity, and inclusion in design.

Gain practical industry experience on a substantial design engineering related project and reflect on how your work has impacted on your professional development.

Complete your four-year design engineering journey by carrying out a major project in an area of your choice.

Develop your knowledge of management and business practices from outside engineering and how they can be applied effectively in an entrepreneurial venture.

Obtain a high level understanding of contemporary industrial design principles, and better understand industrial design process tools.

Deepen your knowledge of the basic principles of acoustics and digital signal processing and the physiology of the hearing system.

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

Assess the economic performance of engineering systems and products through a range of core principles.

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Learn the relevant basics to analyse interaction within systems as games. Understand principles to describe agents and the type of games they are involved in.

Advance your understanding of machine learning in a design engineering context and the mathematical tools that underpin it.

Choose from a range of optional modules as you develop your distinct professional identity.

Better understand the sharing economy and how this new paradigm is causing a wave of disruption to empower citizens and communities.

Build your knowledge of psychology and how design solutions to global challenges need to take into account human behaviour.

Discover the fundamentals of DLTs, better known as blockchains, and learn how to open up questions in the DLT space and explore how to approach them.

Explore the very aspects of data science in order design products from data. Assess the methods of generating value from data, by going through relevant concepts within modern data science such as descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. 

Explore how nanomaterials can be engineered to serve specific applications.

Critically analyse how technology products impact on individuals, their health and society as a whole.

Assess the latest research in the field of applied robotics through hands-on project work.

Use techniques to develop software and hardware platforms for the Internet of Things and understand the basics of mobile sensing.

Enhance your understanding of creating games and playful experiences for a range of entertainment and social issues such as health, education, sustainability, or social change. Learn the key concepts, aspects and methods of game design and play experiences through rapid making and critiquing of analogue games.

Improve your knowledge of current additive manufacturing (AM) technology, materials, trends and processes.

Discover and develop your understanding of the human visual system, and the technology available for design engineers to acquire, analyse, interpret and exploit visual information gathered with modern electronic components.