Degree in Engineering in Industrial Design
Qualification: Graduate in Engineering in Industrial Design
Degree in Engineering in Industrial Design,
a certificate transferred and issued by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)
Duration: 4 years
Credits: 240 ECTS (60 ECTS per academic year)
Training profiles: Product Design, Product Engineering, Product Management
Price/credit: 119,20 EUR/ECTS
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Goals
The present national and international jobs market requires expert, competent professionals who are able to intervene and collaborate in any of the stages of the process of developing a product: in its creation or design, in its later technical development and its final industrialisation or series production.
Industrial design engineers are responsible for making the idea of a new product manufacturable and ensuring that it works properly, that it maintains an adequate function-form ratio, that it is manufactured in series and that, furthermore, it includes innovative elements from all points of view: formal, functional, technical and/or environmental.
The Degree in Engineering in Industrial Design is intended to train competent professionals in the knowledge and the necessary project experience for managing the whole of the life cycle of an industrial product. This means:
A professional identified with the formal and creative process of design, bearing in mind the tendencies of the time (social, cultural, aesthetic, technological, economic and environmental).
A professional responsible for the product development technical project, capable of giving the product technological and economic viability.
A professional identified with the productive process with vision to be able to define the necessary technologies for manufacturing the product and optimising the resources.
Structure
The studies of the Degree in Engineering in Industrial Design last four academic years.
The first two years are formed by basic and compulsory subjects with a double purpose. On the one hand, the scientific tools of expression and representation are studied, which are fundamental and necessary for the development of the profession. In the same way, an introduction is made to the world of design and artistic culture. What’s more, the technological and industrial concepts are studied which are necessary for technically resolving the product.
In the final years, the itineraries formed by optional subjects provide students with a certain professional profile; students may opt for three different types of profile depending on the subject itinerary they choose.
- Product designer. This itinerary is formed by conceptual type subjects and allows students to go into the world of product design and makes them more capable of facing both design and engineering problems.
- Product engineer. This itinerary is formed by technological and industrial subjects, and increases the students’ competence in mastering the development of the industrial object.
- Product manager. This itinerary is formed by management subjects and gives greater competence in controlling and managing the whole process of developing the product, and makes students particularly capable of dealing with managing complex projects or a technical office.
In the last term of the fourth year, students carry out an End of Degree Work to show their competence in designing, developing and industrialising an object.
Options
In the optional subjects, the student goes into depth on the project, subject and methodology of some of the aspects of the process of developing a product. These subjects are presented as belonging to each training profile.
They are distributed into three training profiles, each made up of different modules of 20 ECTS (five subjects of 4 ECTS each). The choice of a Training File allows students to go further into the competencies within the framework of one of the three training profiles offered by the Degree in Engineering in Industrial Design:
- Product designer
- Product engineer
- Product manager
To acquire the competencies of a training profile, students will have to do at least 40 ECTS (equivalent to 2 modules of optional subjects: a total 10 subjects) of the chosen profile.
Students may choose either to do all of the 60 ECTS of optional subjects in the 3rd and 4th year of the same Training Profile, or to complete the 40 ECTS of optional subjects (the minimum required to achieve a training profile) with a module corresponding to another of the training profiles.