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’.
Enrollment Cycles
September 2024
Entry Requirements
UK entry requirements
GCE A Level ABB, including grade B in Art or Design subject (General Studies not accepted).
BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma DDM.
BTEC Level 3 Diploma DD in any subject with an A Level at grade B in Art or Design subject.
BTEC Level 3 Subsidiary Diploma D in any subject with A Levels grade BB in Art or Design subject.
International Baccalaureate Diploma 31 points, including 5 in Higher Level Design or Art subject. GCSE English equivalent SL 5 or HL 4 and Mathematics SL 4 or HL 4.
Obtain a minimum of 128 UCAS tariff points in the Access to HE Diploma in Art or Design course with 45 credits at Level 3.
Five GCSEs at grade C or grade 4 and above are also required, to include Maths and English Language.
EU and International entry requirements
If you require a Tier 4 visa to study in the UK, you must prove knowledge of the English language so that we can issue you a Certificate of Acceptance for Study (CAS). To do this, you will need an IELTS for UKVI or Trinity SELT test pass gained from a test centre approved by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) and on the Secure English Language Testing (SELT) list. This must have been taken and passed within two years from the date the CAS is made.
English language requirements
IELTS: 6 (min 5.5 in all areas)
Pearson: 59 (59 in all sub scores)
BrunELT: 58% (min 55% in all areas)
TOEFL: 79 (min R18, L17, S20, W17)
In the first year, you’ll gain a sound grounding in technical and creative subjects before you move on to more specialised areas with a strong technological and humanistic focus. Your major project is likely to include an aesthetic model and a functional prototype.
This course can be studied 3 years full-time or 4 years full-time with placement, starting in September.
Year 1
Compulsory
DM1313 - Creative Engineering Practice
DM1315 - Design Process 1
DM1316 - Product Analysis
DM1603 - Materials with Manufacturing
DM1611 - Graphic Communication
Year 2 Compulsory
DM2316 - Design Process 2
DM2318 - Systems Design
DM2320 - Design Applications
DM2603 - Design Communication
DM2604 - Design for Manufacture
Year 3 Compulsory
DM3310 - Contextual Design
DM3316 - Environmentally Sensitive Design
DM3329 - Human Factors
DM3801 - Design and Innovation, Management and Process
DM3804 - Industrial Design and Technology Major Project
