The fundamental principle of the IMechE/IED/IET accredited Product Design Engineering degree courses are that good designers have a broad range of skills, from creative and aesthetic awareness, through design engineering and communication, to manufacturing understanding and analysis. It is essential that the graduate Product Design Engineers are both able to design new products that satisfy the original design functional and aesthetic specifications, but are also able to identify the most appropriate manufacturing route for the production quality, quantity and cost profile required. Through the provision of the only IMechE/IED/IET engineering accredited MEng and BEng courses in the country, we provide students with the ability to design, manufacture and test fully functioning design solutions, using Siemens NX8 3D Computer Aided Engineering design environments, state of the art, Additive Manufacturing facilities, industry standard machine tool systems, manufacturing processes, and sub-micrometre accuracy measurement equipment. These courses give you the benefit of professional engineering and/or professional design career routes. The MEng courses are aimed at the most ambitious of students who wish to develop high-flying careers within different industrial sectors and to become the future leaders of industry in companies concerned with the design and manufacture of consumer and industrial products. On completion of these courses, students should have acquired a substantial technical depth in core product design and manufacturing technology, have a good breadth in related disciplines and have developed highly effective transferable skills. The MEng courses provide the preferred route to achieving Chartered Engineer status, and a direct route to further postgraduate design and engineering studies. These courses of four academic years allow high calibre Product Design Engineering students to develop their understanding of the role of product design engineering in both product and production development. The first two academic years are similar to the BEng structure. The MEng structure is distinct from the BEng courses in the third and fourth academic years, providing broadening and deepening of the design and engineering learning experience. It enables further development of the technical aspects and addresses the strategic and managerial challenge facing the implementation of new professional approaches in industry. During the fourth academic year, MEng students from different degree courses are brought together in multi-disciplinary teams for a range of year long projects, to solve challenging industrially based problems at a number of different host companies.

Recent graduate destinations include: Bosch, Coca-cola Enterprises, Cooper Industries, Dyson, Jaguar Land Rover, Rolls-Royce, Schlumberger Russia, Semcon, Siemens and Triumph Motorcycles.