Product Design and Innovation

Discover limitless creativity with our Product Design and Innovation course, where research, technology, style, and interaction combine to shape a dynamic future.

Course outline

Unleash your creativity with our product design and innovation degree. Immerse yourself in this future-focused discipline, blending innovation and engineering expertise. Complete Individual and group projects and challenges, set by real companies, tutors and yourself. Cultivate practical problem-solving skills, tackle briefs in collaboration with diverse teams of engineers and designers, mimicking the typical working world with a wide range of technical and professional capabilities. Upon completion of this course you will be technically skilled, inspired, and at the forefront of design innovation.

Key benefits

• Professionally accredited* – Accredited by the Institute of Engineering Designers (IED)

• Power up your future – Develop the skills employers around the globe look for. Gain an edge in a fast-changing world and thrive in your career with Aston Power Skills.

• Gold standard teaching – Aston University was awarded Gold – the highest possible rating for the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF, 2023)

• Earn more – Our graduates are among the highest paid in the country, earning on average £46,500 five years after graduating (Materials and Technology; Longitudinal Education Outcomes, 2024)

• Satisfied students - Ranked 2nd in the UK for ‘student satisfaction’ (General Engineering; Complete University Guide, 2025)

• Quality teaching - Ranked 1st in the UK for ‘teaching quality’ (Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering; Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide, 2025)

• Interdisciplinary learning - Opportunities to work within interdisciplinary teams on commercial projects, creating new products to solve real-world problems through Design Factory Birmingham.

Where can this degree take me?

The transferable skills that our product design programmes provide mean that our graduates are successful in finding employment in a wide range of roles such as:

• Designer

• Junior designer

• Design engineer

• Operations manager

• Product designer - bespoke furniture

• Quality inspector

• Client services associate

• Graphic and email designer

Our graduates have gone on to work at companies such as Solitec Engineering, MoniRail, Avenue Furniture, Caterpillar, Roman Originals, Desk Gear, TransPerfect Translations, and EP Climbing.

Professional accreditation
*This programme is accredited by the Institute of Engineering Designers (IED). As part of the standard process, it is currently undergoing re-accreditation, with confirmation expected before September 2025.

For a full list of modules and course objectives, visit the course page on Aston University's website: https://www.aston.ac.uk/study/courses/product-design-and-innovation-bsc