General description
User-centered product design, eco-design, design of product-service systems, concept development and the integration of engineering, design and concept-development into company strategy are important tasks in modern innovative companies. The MSc in Design and Innovation combines insight into technology and engineering, industrial design, and management of design and innovation with socio-technical insights into the context of user and company innovation.
The Masters program will provide you with the knowledge and experience to become an active partner in the shaping of future products and services. Contemporary developments point to more complex technical products combining different engineering disciplines with immaterial properties and user-centered and environmental attributes. Good examples can be found in communications, transport, food, and advanced machinery. The design challenge is to combine a variety of technical disciplines with stakeholder interests, synthesizing them into a new product. The design engineer has to take account of user needs, production, environmental impact, distribution, and services and combine function, aesthetics and usability. The role of the design engineer goes beyond developing products; it includes concept development and the management of innovation processes.
The Masters program combines three major – and often separate – areas of competence:
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a reflective competence in engineering technology
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a creative and synthesis-oriented competence
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socio-technical competence in supporting innovation.
Project assignments and team work will be an integral part of the training in the Masters program.
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