BSC (HONS) ENGINEERING PRODUCT DESIGN

If you're thinking of studying with us from September 2025 onwards, please see the BSc (Hons) Product Design and Technology programme.

The BSc (Hons) Product Design programme is no longer recruiting, but students currently enrolled on the programme will be able to finish their studies.

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Do you blend creative thinking with scientific insight? You could become 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.

We’re one of the longest-running degrees to hold IED accreditation. This course fully meets the educational requirements for Registered Product Designer (RProdDes) and Incorporated Engineer (IEng). It also partially meets the educational requirements for Chartered Technological Product Designer (CTPD).

If you’re someone who understands engineering and then wants to use it to start making things and designing real-world solutions, then this is the course for you.

Why study Engineering Product Design at LSBU?

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Ranked 4th in the UK for Design Graduate Prospects (Complete University Guide by subject 2025).

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Get to know the industry with guest lectures from established companies like LEGO and Dyson, alongside smaller startups who are creating new designs for our future.

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Professional accreditation: our course is accredited by the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) and is one of the longest-running degrees to hold that accreditation.

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Our students win prizes: Including Brandon Hopkins who was highly commended in the Design Innovation in Plastics Awards 2025.

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All surveyed students said that academic staff on this programme are good at explaining things (National Student Survey 2024).

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Boost your employability with an optional paid professional work experience placement in your third year.

Entry Level Requirements

Careers

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:

• An online board where you can see a wide range of placements: part-time, full-time or voluntary. You can also drop in to see our Job Shop advisers, who are always available to help you take the next step in your search.
• Our Careers Gym offering group workshops on CVs, interview techniques and finding work experience, as well as regular presentations from employers across a range of sectors.

Our Student Enterprise team can also help you start your own business and develop valuable entrepreneurial skills.

Combining flair and vision with practical skill, Product Design is an exciting course that will set you on course for a creative, fulfilling career.

Our recent graduates are pursuing successful careers with companies like LEGO, Dyson, Gilette and McLaren. Others have set up businesses or work as freelance product designers. From design consultancies to manufacturing companies, there’s a wealth of choice for you.

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, in our Prospects section.

Graduate success stories

As well as recent graduates going into jobs with design consultancies and manufacturing companies, they have also excelled in design competitions:

• Jack Ogborn (winner, IED Student Design Award)
• Matilde Rodriguez and Izzatullah Ahmadi (winners, Design Factory @ Design Museum)
• Andrew Hodgson (winner, DFI furniture design)

After graduation I went to work for LEGO in Denmark where I spent four years working as a design/model maker before coming back to London to work for WOW Toys as a Design Manager.

Peter Grinsell, Alumnus, BSc Product Design

To us, your professional career begins as soon as you start the course, so we continuously prepare you for real-world challenges from the first day of your study.

Our professional links with the Institution of Engineering Designers (IED) mean that our course content is regularly reviewed and revised, making absolutely sure that we are teaching the skills and techniques that the design industry needs from graduates.

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.

Recent guest lecturers have included:

• Andrew Ritchie (Designer and MD of Brompton Bicycles)
• Rob Jones (Design Manager, DAS Business Furniture)
• Jamie Croggan (EPD alumnus and Director of Advanced Development at Shark Ninja)
• Pete Lomas (Co-founder and Trustee, Raspberry Pi Foundation)
• Domenika Potuzakova (usability tester, AVG antivirus)
• Chris Moon (head of product design, the Continuity Company).

Work experience opportunities

Most of our third year students choose to improve their employability by undertaking a year-long placement in industry, and we help you to find your placement. The rewards speak for themselves; work experience gives you the opportunity of testing and adapting the skills that you have learned in class within a workplace environment. It also builds your professional network. 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.