MDes, BDes Product Design (Industrial) Year 3 Placement

Year 4

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Design)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed knowledge of design methods and their use in developing products;
- accurately deploy qualitative and quantitative methods in evaluating products against design requirements and assessing their feasibility;
- demonstrate an awareness of the business context of design and the roles of professional designers in industry;
- describe and comment on recent research and scholarship in the areas of design and relevant technologies;
- appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in design;
- make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources to inform design decisions;
- apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out an extended design project;

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the area(s) studied;
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;
- the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;
- the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- demonstrating the ability top apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline;
- work that is typically both evaluative and creative.

Learning context

The learning context for this year/award will include the use of complex and unpredictable situations. The study will be structured within a framework that provides both breadth and depth and opportunities for demonstrating proficiency in the application of concepts and techniques.

Opportunities will be provided for students to develop interests and informed opinions and to undertake some autonomous study.