Overview
Duration: 1 year full-time (taught)
Application deadline: 30 June (international) / 31 August (home/EU)
Entry requirements: First degree (UK 1st or 2:1 or international equivalent ) in Mechanical Engineering, Physics or Maths
Language requirements: IELTS 6.5 (at least 6.0 in each of the four components) OR TOEFL (internet): 92 overall, Writing 21, Listening 21, Reading 22, Speaking 23.
MSc Engineering Design
This MSc programme produces graduates with the creative, technical and managerial skills and expertise that are highly sought after in the field of engineering design.
Based on research expertise within the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the programme covers an extensive range of innovative design techniques and approaches, reflecting how design impacts across all sectors of industry, and broadening your career opportunities as much as possible.
Learning outcomes
By studying for our MSc in Engineering Design you will:
- understand the issues associated with creativity and innovation
- develop knowledge and experience of the global commercial environment
- gain the expertise needed to manage engineering design projects and teams.
Collaborative working
The programme includes traditionally taught subject-specific units and business and group-orientated modular work.
These offer you the chance to gain experience in design, project management and creativity, while working with students from other subjects.
— Paul Fryer
Further details
Group project work
In semester 2 you undertake a cross-disciplinary group activity for your professional development, simulating a typical industrial work situation.
Individual project work
In the final semester, you undertake an individual research project directly related to key current research at the University, often commissioned by industry.
See programme catalogue for more detail on individual units.
Semester 1 (October-January)
The first semester introduces the fundamental principles of new product design and development, advanced design and innovation techniques, and computer aid packages for design.
- Five taught units (three compulsory and two options)
- Includes coursework involving laboratory or small project sessions
- Typically each unit consists of 22 hours of lectures, may involve a number of hours of tutorials/exercises and laboratory activity and approximately 70 hours of private study (report writing, laboratory results processing and revision for examinations)
Further units offer a wide choice of related topics including business processes, materials selection and system modelling and simulation, with a focus on understanding sustainable approaches and the global commercial environment.
Semester 2 (February-May)
The second semester offers a distinctive project-based learning environment, focusing on your development as an engineering professional in a research and design context. You will gain analytical and team working skills to enable you to deal with the open-ended tasks that typically arise in practice in present-day engineering.
- The semester aims to develop your professional understanding of engineering in a business environment and is taught by academic staff with extensive experience in industry
- Engineering Project Management and Research Methods modules
- Group projects in which students work in a multi-disciplinary team to solve a conceptual structural engineering design problem, just as an industrial design team would operate
- Individual project preliminary work
Summer/Dissertation Period (June-September)
- Individual project leading to MSc dissertation
- Depending on the chosen area of interest, the individual project may involve theoretical and/or experimental activities; for both such activities students can use the department computer suites and well-equipped and newly refurbished laboratories for experimental work. The individual projects are generally carried out under the supervision of a member of academic staff. A number of industrially-based projects are available to students.
- Biomimetics
- Business processes
- Computer aids for design
- Electronics, signals and drives
- Innovation and advanced design
- Materials selection in engineering design
- Product design and development
Previous graduates of the University of Bath MSc in Engineering Dynamics and Control have gone on to careers in the UK and overseas in areas such as environmental design and design consultancies.
Recent graduates have secured jobs at:
- Garrad Hassan
- ABB Research
- Dyson
We also encourage the best of our MSc students to continue their studies with us to PhD level.
