This course addresses the issues associated with a rapidly changing market and the demands for better, cheaper and personalised products, developed within the shortest possible time.The Advanced Product Development stream is designed for those who wish to enhance their technical knowledge and practical design skills through the application of state-of-the-art manufacture to practical design settings through the specialisation in advanced materials and production technology, product design techniques and engineering risk management.Design engineers are problem-solvers who bridge the gap between traditional engineering and design. It's a discipline that draws on knowledge of product development, technical design, manufacturing techniques and rapid prototyping to bring new innovations to market. It also focuses on improving existing products and the processes used for making them.Some of the greatest human achievements have come from creative design engineering, enabling the realisation of some truly remarkable change in our world. Design engineering has helped to transform the environment, create incredible super-structures on land and sea, and even helped people travel into the solar system.Design engineering has also developed many of the most important systems and services, from individual right up to global and universal scales. These systems have supported radical scaling up of human activity in a huge range of areas.<br>What you'll study<br>The course will provide you with a thorough training in design theories and process models, design methods, design techniques, computer-supported product modelling, analysis, evaluation and physical rapid prototyping of a design solution. In addition, you'll gain the enterprise skills necessary to launch brand new products to market.Studying within the Department of Design, Manufacturing &amp; Engineering Management provides you with access to some of the leading academics in the whole product development life cycle, learning from their time in industry, current research projects and advancements in those fields. We are the only department in the UK that combines end-to-end multidisciplinary expertise from creative design, through engineering design, manufacture and management of the entire system. This is more commonly split between art school and engineering faculties, however, we can provide you with a broader understanding of the overall process, and expertise in each area, all in the one department.Our course enhances the professional and creative abilities of graduates from a variety of technical disciplines; from mechanical, civil and industrial engineering to science, architecture, computing and electronics.Accreditation: Institution of Engineering and TechnologyInstitution of Engineering DesignersInstitution of Mechanical Engineers.<br>Careers<br>Design engineers use technical knowledge, mathematical and design skills to create innovative solutions to problems across a diverse range of industries.This course will propel your design engineering career forward because it will:provide you with the knowledge and skills to develop your own abilities to tackle more complex roles<br>enhance your CV with a competitive edge through gaining a Masters<br>develop industry experience through the Postgraduate Group Project module which provides you with first hand industry experience which can be used as example work during any future interviews.<br>Graduates could have job titles such as:Design Engineering<br>Design Project Manager<br>CAD Engineer<br>Consulting Engineers<br>Product Design Engineer<br>Industrial Design Engineer<br>Engineering Manager<br>Graduate Design Engineer<br>Senior Design Engineer