Design Technologies

Croeso! Welcome to the Department of Design Technologies at CSAD.

Our commitment is to produce designers, technologists and engineers, who will play an important part in shaping all our futures. The courses foreground the relationship between people, products and the environment and centre the student as a learner.

You will have plenty of opportunities to explore and experiment with the design possibilities that interest you. We aim to provide you with the design skills, contextual understanding and analytical approaches that will mark you out as an employable graduate.

The Department brings together product design with applied technologies, and engineering. Our resources are such that we can help you move easily from design concepts to manufacturing solutions.

Our equipment is first rate and we benefit from proximity to UWIC’s nationally recognised Product Design Research Institute. Importantly, we offer two masters programmes in product design, enabling the best of our graduates to extend their studies with us.

We are especially interested in Cradle to Cradle thinking on sustainability and in 2007/8 will be extended our research interests and teaching in this area. Indeed, we are very proud to say that Dr Michael Braungart is currently our Visiting Professor.

We have a number of significant research projects that are attracting national and international interest, and of course you will benefit from these in your studies.

This prospectus gives you details of the product design programme at CSAD. We also run programmes in applied technologies and engineering systems development. These are listed in this prospectus; further information can be given on request.

I look forward to meeting you and wish you well with your studies.

Martin Biffin Head of Design Technologies