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Do you blend creative thinking with scientific insight? You could be an engineering product designer, creating products that solve everything from minor problems, like a leaky teapot, to major questions, like how to launch lifeboats faster.
This is one of the few design courses in the UK to be accredited for Incorporated Engineer, bridging the gap between product design and mechanical engineering. If you’re someone who can understand the engineering, and then wants to use it to start making things and designing real-world solutions, then this is the course for you.
We offer the opportunity for all undergraduate Home/EU students to undertake a work placement, internship or work experience while studying a full-time course starting in September 2021.
Mode | Duration | Start date | Location |
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Mode Sandwich |
Duration 4 years |
Start Date September |
Location
Southwark Campus
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Mode Full-time |
Duration 3 years |
Start Date September |
Location
Southwark Campus
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New technologies are constantly changing the way engineering designers approach problem-solving. We’ll keep you up-to-date with the latest design and manufacturing technologies.
First, we’ll build your core skills and experience: the production of design drawings, digital design skills in CAD and graphics, technical engineering analysis, presentation and communication skills and the production of working prototypes. Then, we’ll give you a platform to experience the industry and build your network through live briefs, industry career talks, work placements and your final year degree show.
Methods of assessment for course overall: 96% coursework.
The final year of the course revolves around the delivery of a major design project. You'll be required to design, develop, prototype and manufacture a product to your own specifications. You'll need to choose the appropriate manufacturing techniques and materials to make and test a working prototype of your product using our innovative IT and workshop facilities. The result will be showcased at the University's annual design show.
The course is practical and applied. When you come to graduate you’ll have a portfolio to showcase your talent and ability to create aesthetic, desirable and functional solutions within financial constraints. And that’s precisely what employers are looking for!
Take a look at some potential careers, including product designer, on Prospects.
Alumni from this course have gone onto jobs with a range of world class companies including: Hasbro, Dyson, PDD, Kenwood, Gillette, Atlas Copco, McLaren and LEGO. Please see our case studies for more details.
We are University of the Year for Graduate Employment for the second year in a row - The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2018, 2019.
At LSBU, we want to set you up for a successful career. During your studies – and for two years after you graduate – you’ll have access to our Employability Service, which includes:
Our Student Enterprise team can also help you start your own business and develop valuable entrepreneurial skills.
Our course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) and is one of the longest-running degrees to hold that accreditation.
The course is accredited by the IED on behalf of the Engineering Council for the purposes of fully meeting the academic requirement for registration as an Incorporated Engineer (IEng) and as partially meeting the academic requirement for registration as Chartered Technical Product Designer (CTPD).
The IED is the UK's only professional body representing those working in the field of engineering design. Members work in a diverse range of industries that span product design, architecture, mechanical, automotive and aircraft design, design education, IT and computing.
Work experience transforms a CV. It’s important that you get some – and we’ll help you do that. Placement jobs often lead to 'live' projects in their final year that are sponsored by the companies, and many of our students have been employed by their placement companies on graduation.
In recent years students have done placements at companies such as Vitamin (design consultancy), Complete Fabrication, Firefly Lighting and Smiths Medical, amongst others.
Through hands-on engineering experience you'll learn how to test, measure, design and produce your own prototypes, bringing your ideas off the drawing board or computer screen and into full-size and functional 3D models. You're entitled to free educational copies of the Autodesk suite of CAD software, including Inventor, Alias, AutoCAD and VRed.
Our workshop capabilities include:
Read more about our workshops and industry-standard software.
Our teaching staff are experts, with a great deal to share. Whether they're teaching, carrying out research or involved in consultancy for industry, they have the skills to make a difference to you. You'll learn both intellectual and practical skills in a modern, well-equipped environment that blends traditional manufacturing equipment and sophisticated technology.
You'll learn through lectures, seminars, tutorials and practical work. Taking on both group and individual projects, we assess your work through a mixture of coursework and exams, with project and laboratory work counting towards your final award. We also teach you the life skills of effective communication, problem solving, project planning and team working that will set you apart and give you the best chance of getting the job you want after you graduate.
Lectures, seminars and lab-based study | Self-directed study | |
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Year 1 | 38% | 62% |
Year 2 | 38% | 62% |
Year 3 | 18% | 82% |
As an Engineering student, you will be allocated a named tutor during your first three weeks at LSBU. The role of your tutor is to be your primary contact for academic and professional development support.
Your tutor will support you to get the most of your time at LSBU, providing advice and signposting to other sources of support in the University.
They should be the first person at the university that you speak to if you are having any difficulties that are affecting your work. These could be academic, financial, health-related or another type of problem.
You will have appointments with your personal tutor at least twice a semester. Some meetings will be one-to-one and others will be in small groups. You can contact your tutor for additional support by email or in person.
Applicants are normally interviewed before being offered a place and are asked to bring along a portfolio of work. For more guidance on what to include in your portfolio, please see the ‘Interviews and Portfolios’ guide in the 'prepare to start' section.
If you have already completed some studies at another university, we may be able to consider you for advanced entry. Please see our advanced entry page for more information.
International (non Home/EU) applicants should follow our international how to apply guide.
Mode | Duration | Start date | Application code | Application method |
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Mode Sandwich |
Duration 4 years |
Start date September |
Application code H770 |
Application method |
Mode Full-time |
Duration 3 years |
Start date September |
Application code H770 |
Application method |
All full-time undergraduate students apply to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS). Full details of how to do this are supplied on our How to apply webpage for undergraduate students.
All part-time students should apply directly to London South Bank University and full details of how to do this are given on our undergraduate How to apply webpage.
Students should apply for accommodation at London South Bank University (LSBU) as soon as possible, once we have made an offer of a place on one of our academic courses. Read more about applying for accommodation at LSBU.
It's a good idea to think about how you'll pay university tuition and maintenance costs while you're still applying for a place to study. Remember – you don't need to wait for a confirmed place on a course to start applying for student finance. Read how to pay your fees as an undergraduate student.
We like to meet all of our applicants in person so that you can show us what you are capable of and what makes you tick, and the portfolio is a useful tool to help you do this.
Many candidates ask us this, but there is no such thing as a ‘standard’ portfolio. In short, we would like to see exciting example sheets of design or other creative work that you have done, which collectively illustrate the breadth of your skills. This might include (in no particular order):
This work doesn’t have to be just from your formal education to date, it’s always good to add some 3D design work (photos/drawings) from projects you have done outside school/college.
Have you built some furniture, made a poster for a local event or doctored your family’s photographs? This all counts to a rounded and interesting body of work.
Along with your portfolio try to bring some small sketch models that you used to work through a problem.
Be honest and be yourself: if something isn't quite right with your design it’s much better to be open about it that to try and gloss over it. And be concise. We cannot realistically look through 300 portfolio sheets in one interview, so try to select down to the key examples that show off your range of skills. Imagery is far more useful to us than large blocks of text. If you have any more questions please don’t hesitate to get in touch with our Admissions Team.
After you’ve received your offer we’ll send you emails about events we run to help you prepare for your course.
Before you start your course we’ll send you information on what you’ll need to do before you arrive and during your first few days on campus. You can read about the process on our Enrolment pages.
For more information, including how and when to pay, see our fees and funding section for undergraduate students.
Please check your fee status and whether you are considered a Home, EU or International student for fee-paying purposes and for our regulatory returns, by reading the UKCISA regulations.
See our Tuition Fees Regulations (PDF File 160 KB) and Refund Policy (PDF File 102 KB).
The University reserves the right to increase its fees in line with changes to legislation, regulation and any government guidance or decisions.
The fees for international students are reviewed annually and the University reserves the right to increase the tuition fees in line with the RPIX measure of inflation up to 4 per cent.
We offer several types of fee reduction through our scholarships and bursaries. Find the full list and other useful information on our scholarships page.
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