This course aims to develop a range of fundamental design and engineering skills, with a particular emphasis on creativity, computer-aided engineering tools, optimisation, human factors, design process, and the enterprise skills and industrial experience necessary to launch brand new products to market. Design engineers are problem solvers who bridge the gap between traditional engineering and design. It's a discipline which draws on knowledge of manufacturing techniques, product development, technical design and rapid prototyping to bring new innovations to market. It also focuses on improving existing products and the processes used for making them. During the first two years you will study a series of compulsory modules focusing on foundational engineering, computing, mathematics and human factors to give you a solid scientific and design basis to build on. These cover subjects such as mechanics, electronics for product and system design, and mechatronic and robotics. The third and fourth years include a greater emphasis on advanced modules in design and engineering, as well as enterprise and entrepreneurship skills. You will have a choice of optional modules in areas such as design rationale, human factors and advanced engineering tools, allowing you to specialise in the areas you are most interested in. You will incrementally combine your engineering and design skills with business knowledge in successive projects, working both in groups and independently. This will culminate in an Enterprise Roll Out module in your final year, in which you will expose one of the products you have made to market reaction. Like graduates of our postgraduate courses, who have gone on to highly successful careers in companies such as Samsung, Apple and Bentley, and launched startups such as Bare Conductive and Omlet, this course is designed to equip you with creativity, enterprise skills and industrial experience that will appeal in a wide range of industries.