Design at Brunel is all about realising fantastic ideas in the real world. Our Industrial Design and Technology BA suits creative and practical thinkers who prefer to learn through building and evaluating project-based challenges, with technological understanding and less theory and quantitative analysis.
There is a lot of project-based learning to test your skills on all aspects of the design process, from contextual design ideas to realising your concept in the form of a product prototype. This means you’ll be able to build a great portfolio of your best-quality projects, academic and industry briefs, and case studies, during your studies.
You’ll have workshop training and will use industry-standard equipment and software to develop quality hands-on skills to become a maker. Independent access is available to modern facilities that include dedicated design studios, digital sketching, extensive prototyping workshops, and electronics and digital fabrication labs. The practical knowledge you gain is transferable to industry and provides a head start for your future career as a designer and design making in the modern world.
Our industrial design and technology course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) and can be studied full-time over three years, or four years with a placement year.
The placement year helps you to prepare for the world of work and you’ll have a year’s worth of invaluable professional experience when you graduate. Our students have worked in both small innovation start-ups and multinational organisations such as Chanel, Dior, Disney, Dyson and Lego.
Our students have the opportunity to add another dimension to their university experience by spending a term or a year in one of our partner universities via our exchange programme: Politecnico di Milano in Italy; Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, San Francisco State University in USA and Institut Superieur de Design, ISD Bubika in France.
Made in Brunel is a unique, student-led initiative that showcases our design talent at its finest. Each year our students run a series of industry and community events leading up to the Made in Brunel exhibition. This annual showcase is a highlight of the London design calendar and promotes the incredible work our students produce to the creative community, and is a great way for our students to network with key design professionals.
If you are interested in turning a product or technology idea into a business after you graduate, we are in partnership with the Central Research Laboratory (CRL), a design incubator for start-ups. You’ll have access to meeting rooms and work space as well as prototyping facilities. A team of in-house professionals will guide and support you at each stage and a number of our previous entrepreneurial students have successfully commercialised their products.
The British Industrial Design Association graduate employability survey ranks Brunel second for creating the ‘most employable graduates’.
Course Details - Modules
Year 1
Creative Engineering Practice
Design Process 1
Graphic Communication
Materials with Manufacturing
Product Analysis
Year 2
Design Applications
Design Communication
Design for Manufacture
Design Process 2
Systems Design
Work placement year in industry
Year 3
Contextual Design
Environmentally Sensitive Design
Human Factors
Design and Innovation, Management and Process
Industrial Design and Technology Major Project
Course Details – Assessment Method
Assessment Methods are not listed for this Course.
Course Details – Professional Bodies
Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.
How to Apply
26 January This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.
Application Codes
Course code:
HWR2
Institution code:
B84
Campus Name:
Main Site
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Points of Entry
The following entry points are available for this course:
Year 1
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry (Year 2 and Beyond)
Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.
International applicants
Standard Qualification Requirements
including grade B in an Art or Design subject (not including Performing Arts/Theatre Arts)
in any subject and A level grade A in an Art or Design subject (not including Performing Arts/Theatre Arts)
Obtain a minimum of 128 UCAS tariff points in the Access to HE Diploma in an Art or Design subject with 45 credits at Level 3.
including grade B in an Art or Design subject (not including Performing Arts/Theatre Arts)
in any subject
in any subject with A levels grade AB including an Art or Design subject (not including Performing Arts/Theatre Arts)
in any subject and A level grade A in an Art or Design subject (not including Performing Arts/Theatre Arts)
in any subject and A level grade A in an Art or Design subject (not including Performing Arts/Theatre Arts)
including Higher Level 5 in an Art or Design subject (not including Performing Arts/Theatre Arts)
in any subject
including H3 in an Art or Design subject (not including Performing Arts/Theatre Arts)
in any subject
in any subject with A levels grade AB including an Art or Design subject (not including Performing Arts/Theatre Arts)
in any subject with A levels grade AB including an Art or Design subject (not including Performing Arts/Theatre Arts)
including grade M2 in an Art or Design subject (not including Performing Arts/Theatre Arts)
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Minimum Qualification Requirements
Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.
English language requirements
Test
Grade
AdditionalDetails
IELTS (Academic)
6.0
with no less than 5.5 in each subsection
Institution's Own Test
with no less than 55% in each subsection
TOEFL (iBT)
79.0
with a minimum of:
Reading - 18
Listening - 17
Speaking - 20
Writing - 17
PTE Academic
51.0
with a minimum of 51 in all subscores
Brunel University London - English Language Requirements
