BSc (Hons) Product Design and Innovation
Course Overview
Unleash your creativity with our product design and innovation degree. Immerse yourself in this future-focused discipline, blending innovation and engineering expertise. Complete Individual and group projects and challenges, set by real companies, tutors and yourself. Cultivate practical problem-solving skills, tackle briefs in collaboration with diverse teams of engineers and designers, mimicking the typical working world with a wide range of technical and professional capabilities. Upon completion of this course you will be technically skilled, inspired, and at the forefront of design innovation. Our Product Design and Innovation Foundation Programme is designed to prepare you for degree-level study. Successful completion of the foundation year guarantees progression onto this undergraduate course.
Key Program Highlights
- Ranked 1st in the UK for student satisfaction: Manufacturing and Production Engineering, Complete University Guide, 2026
- Design Factory: Opportunities to work within interdisciplinary teams on commercial projects, creating new products to solve real-world problems
- Ranked 22nd in the world: Aston University was ranked 22nd in the world for reducing inequalities (THE Impact Rankings, 2025)
- Top 5% in the world: Top 5% of global evaluated institutions (QS World University Rankings 2026)
- Earn more: Our graduates are among the highest paid in the country, earning on average £36,100 three years after graduating (Materials and Technology; LEO, 2025)
Course Overview
Unleash your creativity with our product design and innovation degree. Immerse yourself in this future-focused discipline, blending innovation and engineering expertise. Complete Individual and group projects and challenges, set by real companies, tutors and yourself. Cultivate practical problem-solving skills, tackle briefs in collaboration with diverse teams of engineers and designers, mimicking the typical working world with a wide range of technical and professional capabilities. Upon completion of this course you will be technically skilled, inspired, and at the forefront of design innovation. Our Product Design and Innovation Foundation Programme is designed to prepare you for degree-level study. Successful completion of the foundation year guarantees progression onto this undergraduate course.
Key Program Highlights
- Ranked 1st in the UK for student satisfaction: Manufacturing and Production Engineering, Complete University Guide, 2026
- Design Factory: Opportunities to work within interdisciplinary teams on commercial projects, creating new products to solve real-world problems
- Ranked 22nd in the world: Aston University was ranked 22nd in the world for reducing inequalities (THE Impact Rankings, 2025)
- Top 5% in the world: Top 5% of global evaluated institutions (QS World University Rankings 2026)
- Earn more: Our graduates are among the highest paid in the country, earning on average £36,100 three years after graduating (Materials and Technology; LEO, 2025)
Requirements
Modules
- Introduction to Design
- Design Innovation
- Introduction to Design-Build-Test
- Introductory Programming for Engineering and Physical Sciences
- Electronics 1
- Engineering for Design
- Power Skills
- Interdisciplinary Design Project
- Advanced Design Innovation
- Design for Manufacture
- Design Communication
- Engineering for Design 2
- Product Experience 1
- Integrated Design Project
- CDIO Team Project
- EPS Placement Year
- Design Sprint
- Design Futures
- Product Experience 2
- Professional Engineering Practice
- Design Innovation Final Year Project
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