The MA 3D Design is aimed at both recently qualified and experienced practitioners in a three-dimensional design field such as Product or Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Interior Design, Architecture or similar, who wish to further their education through a Practice Based Masters. Candidates would normally be expected to come to the MA with a research interest which might form a starting point for their major project. The programme is run by the Dublin School of Creative Arts at DIT and offers a unique opportunity for focussed study in an interdisciplinary environment that mixes studio practice with intellectual, theoretical and historical inquiry. The programme is one of five delivered through the Creative Arts Masters Platform. Students on the MA 3D Design programme will join those on the other studio-based programmes in Interior Design, Visual Communications, and Fine Art, and those on the Contemporary Visual Culture programme, where students study the theory and criticism of contemporary visual culture or the history of art and design. The Platform allows specialisation within a dynamic mix of practical and critical disciplines, placing particular emphasis upon practice engaged with critical and historical debate.

This programme will develop the knowledge and skillset required to work at a high level of research, design and development in the Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Digital Media and Biomedical Engineering. Intel (Healthcare Innovation), Valeo (Automotive Video Processing) and S3 Group (Telehealth System Deployment) are just three examples of multinational companies with innovation centres based in Ireland which rely on signal processing expertise to develop their products. Signal processing is an enabling technology which has led to creation of start-up companies within the Institute (RiffStation.com and moletestuk.com) in addition to the application of intellectual property developed within the Institute in well-known products such as in the Sony PlayStation 'Sing Star' game. The ME in Biomedical, Audio & Image Signal Processing develops both hardware and software signal processing skills with an emphasis on analysing and manipulating practical real-world signals such as brainwave (EEG), heart (ECG), speech, images and music. The programme is supported by the activities of the Institutes research groups’ active in these areas. Applicants should have an engineering, science or computer science undergraduate honours degree.