Design Engineering, Imperial College London

Overview

Course Overview

This degree, with its first entry in 2015, develops a range of fundamental design and engineering skills with a particular emphasis on: creativity, computer-aided engineering tools, optimisation, human factors and enterprise and their integration in design-engineering projects, This degree will lead to the award of a Master-s level qualification. It is expected that graduates will also receive accreditation from relevant accrediting bodies (see below). Course overview: The course covers fundamental engineering across several fields, design techniques, business and communications skills. We focus particularly on foundational engineering, computing and mathematics in the first two years to give you a solid scientific and design basis. The third and fourth years include a greater emphasis on advanced modules in design and engineering, and enterprise and entrepreneurship skills. All first and second year modules are compulsory. The third and fourth years include several optional modules, allowing you to specialise in areas of interest. It may also be possible to take optional modules from other degrees at Imperial, which will be added to the prospectus as discussions progress. Industrial placement, All students will undertake a six-month industrial placement from April in third year. The placement will be on-site with an industrial partner and supervised jointly by the partner and Imperial. A substantial number of companies have already expressed an interest in hosting placements and it is expected that you will have choice from a variety of partners and projects for your placement. Project work and coursework, The course contains a substantial number of project and coursework modules of increasing scale throughout the programme. You will incrementally combine your engineering and design skills with business knowledge in successive projects. This will culminate in an Enterprise Roll Out module, in which you will manage the launch to market of one of the products you have made during an in-course project.

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