Product Design BSc (Hons) at Bangor University

Design stimulates the development of an enquiring, analytical and creative approach, and progresses enterprising and entrepreneurial capabilities. It encourages the acquisition of independent judgement and critical self-awareness. Students normally pursue a programme of staged development progressing to increasingly independent and personally-focused learning during the course.

The BSc Product Design degree course at Bangor University‘s Design and Technology Centre is a diverse design course which focuses on a wide range of design sectors as well as developing your professional skills. We are the only UK University to offer a Product Design degree course with three separate industrial work placements which will allow you to experience a diverse range of working environments, projects and companies.

Your three years at Bangor University will see you immersed in the design and manufacture of products. You will study human centred design and design thinking methodologies. A range of briefs will challenge and develop you both creatively and professionally. Projects with industrial partners will ensure a grounding and context of how the industry works. Your challenge will be to be creative and ensure innovation within the given brief.

By the end of this course you will be able to adapt and interact with a wide range of professional, industrial and creative environments, as the Product Design course will have taught you a wide range of skills, from time management to presentational skills, evolving you into a capable multi-disciplinary designer.

Product Design Degree Show & Conference 

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Why choose Bangor University for this course?

• We produce high calibre students with a wide range of real world applicable skills and a high percentage of our students achieve and graduate with a 1st class degree

• Low student and staff ratio.
• Studying at the Bangor University Design Centre, which is a highly equipped, professional working environment and also an accredited CAD/CAM training centre
• Personal tutor support on both an educational and pastoral level
• Three placements across the degree rather than one year long placement at the end of the course, which gives you the chance to improve and develop as an individual
• Over 90% of our students graduate into a job with many of them being offered jobs at their second or third year placement companies
• High levels of professional development, oral presentational skills, confidence and work placement analytical report writing skills
• Wide range of facilities, including workshop, plasma cutter, 3D printer, laser cutter and new building Ponito with an innovation centre
• No cost for materials or usage of workshop machinery
• Students are in agreement that this course prepares them for industry and employment.

Careers

Currently our Product Design degree course has a 90% employment rate and our Design and Technology teaching course stands at 100% employment, because of the nature of the course is so professional and allows you to develop into a diverse and talented designer. All of our students are in agreement that the course sufficiently prepares them for industry and employment and this is down to the three work placements you will partake in during your three years which will allow you to diversify and develop your skills making you more employable.

Our students have a the highest rate of employability across the country after completing our course, due to the intense structure of the course which makes them into highly professional and employable designers.

This course will prepare you for a wide range of careers, with options including:

• product and industrial design
• design consultancy and management
• sales, advertising and marketing
• computer aided design and manufacture
• technical management design
• design and technology teaching

The skills and talents learnt on work placement are transferable to the real world, with many of our students continuing to work for their third year work placement company after graduation. Some of the placements companies that our students have gone to include:

• Unilever
• International Safety Components
• Bench
• Bentley
• Fifth Wheel Company
• Urban Picnic
• Aston Martin
• Prism Medical UK
• JCB
• Westbridge Furniture Design