Product Design Engineering

Product design engineering occupies the space where creative design thinking meets engineering rigour, concerned with how physical products are conceived, developed, and brought to manufacture at the scale and with the quality that markets and users demand. The discipline asks not only what products should look like but how they should work, how they can be made reliably and sustainably, and how the full system of form, function, materials, and manufacturing process can be optimised together. This three-year full-time BSc at Brunel University London attracts students who are both creative in their thinking and comfortable with the analytical dimensions of engineering design.

You will develop skills in industrial design, mechanical engineering principles, materials science, manufacturing processes, and the design methodologies used by professional product designers and engineers. The programme emphasises the integration of good form and function, asking you to develop products and systems that work well technically and feel right to the people who use them. Brunel's tradition of industry-linked design education means that the programme is closely connected to real industrial practice, developing your understanding of how products move from concept through prototyping and testing to manufacture.

A typical entry tariff of 120 UCAS points reflects an accessible but technically demanding programme. Graduates from product design engineering programmes move into careers in consumer product design, industrial and manufacturing engineering, medical device design, automotive and transport design, sustainable product development, design consultancy, and innovation roles across a wide range of industries. Many continue to postgraduate study in product design, engineering design, or human factors.