BA (Hons) Product Design

CAREER POTENTIAL:

Product designers are highly creative problem solvers who apply their knowledge and skill to create desirable products. The professional nature of our courses prepares you for the creative demands made of the practicing designer. Upon completion of this course graduates will be extremely creative, motivated and above all versatile individuals, capable of working in a design role, management role, running their own company, involved in research, design education, marketing, sales, model making and much more.

COURSE CONTENT:

During year one, the BA and BSc route have approximately an 80% commonality. Our first class computer and workshop facilities enable you to develop state of the art CAD/CAMM skills and to develop working prototypes to prove a design concept. We are keen to interact with industry and run ‘live’ projects with national and international organisations such as Dyson, Linpac, GUL International. Product design at UWIC has also won prestigious competitions such as the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), Corus etc. BA (HONS) PRODUCT DESIGN Campus: Llandaff Campus Course Length: Three years full-time

Year one: • Effective Communication of

Design • The Design Process & User

Needs • Computer Aided Technical

Design • IT & Research Studies • Design in Context • Engineering Science.

Year two: • Design for Manufacture • CAD-CAM • Marketing & Conceptual

Development • Information Ergonomics • Project Selection &

Management • Design & Society in 19th/ 20th Centuries • Dissertation Chapter 1.

Year three: • Business management & professional practise • Design for a Competition • Dissertation • Major Project, product related • Major Project, system related.

ASSESSMENT:

You will be assessed throughout the course through practical and written work.

ACCREDITED BY: Institution of Engineering Designers UCAS CODE(S): W240 (Route A), E240 (Route B)

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:

A minimum grade B in Design Technology or Art, and a C in one other subject at A Level or equivalent; or a Foundation Diploma in Art & Design. Points not accepted. We have a very open mind to the qualifications you bring with you. We simply look to be convinced that you have the commitment to pursue this degree and the skills to make it worthwhile.

FURTHER INFORMATION: csad.uwic.ac.uk/ productdesign Admissions Tutor: Glyn Stockton - gstockton@uwic.ac.uk