SECTION 2 – HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES SPECIALISED DEGREES
BSc Product Design CAO Code: MH305 | CAO Points 2017: 360
CAO Code: MH305 CAO Points 2017: 360 CAO Points Range 2016: 390-505 Places 2017: 45 Erasmus/Study Abroad Option: Yes - subject to availability
Mature Applicants: See p. 196 UK, EU & International Applicants: See p. 201 QQI Link: See p. 198 Leaving Certificate: 2H5 & 4O6/H7, Irish, English & Science subject (one of Agricultural Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Physics with Chemistry, Engineering,
>A highly practical course, with an emphasis on project-based learning, workshops, laboratory sessions and group work.
>Opportunity to take a six-month, full-time work experience placement, in a relevant employment setting.
>Students acquire a broad understanding of product design from both an engineering and a marketing point of view - leading you to create solutions that balance business viability, human desirability and technical feasibility.
Why choose this degree? >As a student of Product Design, you will learn to harness your creative, artistic, and problem-solving skills. You will also gain a relevant understanding of technology and materials, and a sensitive awareness of human needs and behaviour through user-centred design. You will learn to combine these abilities to create products that satisfy, even delight, users. You will acquire an understanding of Product Design from both an engineering and a marketing point of view.
>You will learn from accomplished designers and design entrepreneurs - people who have experience designing in sports equipment, medical devices, user interfaces and consumer electronics and homeware – as well as having impeccable academic credentials.
Options after graduation? Product designers are key to innovation in the modern world. As technological competence spreads globally, businesses are placing greater focus on achieving market success through design. Graduates understand and drive innovation in many spheres of life, especially those involving design and technology, its application or assessment.
Technology, Construction Studies or Design and Communication Graphics) and O3/H7 Mathematics Duration: 4 years Placement Option: Yes – subject to availability
Students may consider career areas such as product design, interaction design, medical device design, furniture design, technical marketing, customer development and user experience, new product development, design management, technology business management and many other design disciplines.
Some graduates continue their studies and we currently offer the following postgraduate course: >MSc Design Innovation
Maynooth Education Electives Option See p. 8 for details.
Contact us
Maynooth University Department of Design Innovation, Rowan House
design@mu.ie + 353 1 708 6634
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/design-innovation Find us on Twitter
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Course structure
> As a specialised 4 year Bachelor of Science degree in Product Design, a range of technology, marketing and design subjects are taken in all years
Possible topics 1st year
> Creative thinking and design > Core design skills (sketching, prototyping, presentation)
> Introduction to embedded electronic engineering
> Maths, physics and material science
> Optional 10 credit Electives in second year (see p. 8 for details)
> All students take a 6-month, full-time, work experience placement in 3rd year (subject to availability)
2nd year
> Core design skills > Universal design > Usability, ergonomics and aesthetics > Digital imaging > Marketing management > Optional 10 credit Electives (see p. 8 for details)
3rd year
> Ethnography > Design for environment and sustainability
> Design project with industry > Industry work placement or Erasmus study abroad
Full degree and module detail on our Course Finder
www.maynoothuniversity.ie/ourcourses 121
Final year
> Advanced materials and design for manufacture
> Innovation management > Keystone design projects
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