124 product design
minimum requirements SQA Higher: GCE A-Level: ILC Higher: IB Diploma:
Essential subjects: why study at dundee?
ABBB BBC
ABBB 30 points with 5, 5, 5 at HL
One or more from: art and design, design and technology, mathematics, physics or product design (H, A-L, ILC H, HL).
advanced entry (to Level 2)
SQA Advanced Higher: BBC or BB (AH) + AB (H) in different subjects
GCE A-Level: IB Diploma:
Essential subjects: ABB 34 points with 6, 6, 5 at HL
One or more from: art and design, design and technology, mathematics, physics or product design (AH, A-L, HL).
selection notes
We are keen to know how you approach novel design challenges. To find this out, we will send you a Product Kit – for you to design and evaluate a response to a task that will arrive through your letter box.
Also essential is a developed portfolio demonstrating a keen interest and aptitude for product design.
other qualifications
Please see ‘Engineering, Physics and Mathematics’ on page 140.
degree programme (with UCAS Code) BSc Product Design
See making your application on page 32. W240
We are an award winning product design programme with success in a number of national and international competitions and expeditions – from D&AD global student awards, to exhibition success at New Designers and Tent London, and to industry awards from NCR and Microsoft.
In addition to project-based studio activity, we will give you the opportunity to witness design in practice in industry in the form of lectures, field trips and company visits. We also run a number of projects as a live client, where the brief is set by industry. In order to deepen your understanding of design in practice we encourage and help you to find summer placements with companies.
Product design at Dundee will train you to design products that work. Products people can get their hands on, play with, admire, tell people about and ultimately want as their own. We don’t think that it is all about products that work though, our students are taught how to find out what people want, to understand their needs and to design products for them. Our aim is to develop designers who can re-appropriate existing and explore emerging technologies in a playful way and use them as a creative medium throughout the design process.
In our studios we will work with you so that you can become part of the next generation of leading edge designers that are comfortable programming electronics, talking to people, making models or rendering in CAD. It is not about presenting ideas of what a product might be, or building a technical prototype of how a product might work – we will help you to develop the skills to respond to people’s needs and design products that work.
Through our Erasmus exchange programme our students are also able to study abroad with partner Universities for either one or two semesters. We also take overseas students from partner Universities into our course for the same period. This has proved to be hugely successful with students studying in Milan, Spain and Canada.
employability
Employability is the fundamental driver for our course. We pride ourselves on building strong relationships with employers throughout our students’ education, enabling a smooth and quick route to industry and further academic training on graduation.
Our graduates are employed as product designers, service designers and interaction designers across the globe for companies such as Live|Work, Alpkit, Microsoft and NCR.
Dr Tim Regan, Microsoft Research
www.dundee.ac.uk/prospectus/product
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