Design and Technology (Product Design)

Course summary

Design and technology are key ingredients in understanding how the world around us works and functions. Everything we touch, use and interact with daily, started as a raw material, and needed to be designed, shaped and manufactured into something tangible for us to use. Design and technology prepare you practically for a career in design or engineering, and give you opportunities to translate your knowledge from other subjects such as chemistry, maths and physics into real-world objects and artefacts. It provides essential skills for many engineering courses and will give you the knowledge and expertise that will set you apart from some of your peers. You will start university with an innate understanding and experience of how to manufacture products from the ground up, and how to use tools and machinery to bring your ideas to life.