Product Design Innovation
Profile
This is a four-year honours degree with the first two years being core, where you learn the skills and processes needed in Design. On the course you learn the skills of being a designer, sketching, model making/prototyping, creative problem solving, visual communication and working as part of a team. You will be using programmes like Solidworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design and more.
This course was the first of its kind nationally and has 50+ years’ experience in design education. We use studio-based education, a dedicated space where students work together on their designs and learn through making and doing. The student staff ratio is approx. 1:10 which means you get very high contact time with lecturers supporting and guiding you through your design development.
Year 3 offers the opportunity of work placement with exciting design companies or travelling to a European University to study design. The course also has strong links with industry and runs live projects with companies across the 4 years.
In the final year of the course, you get to design your own product from start to finish showing the skills you have learned and your readiness to become a product designer.
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Admissions Requirements
High school completion certificate that comes in at level 5 on the Irish National Framework of Qualifications and Mathematics. All candidates must have completed 12 years of full-time education prior to applying for entry to SETU Carlow. All subjects on the High School Completion Certificate must be successfully passed, with good grades.
Notes
Applications from non-visa required candidates will be accepted up to the 31 July 2024 for programmes commencing in September 2024.
For EU: first time undergraduate students pursuing a full time programme will qualify for free tuition fee funding, however, please refer to http://www.studentfinance.ie for full details of the “Free Fees Initiative” ( F.F.I ) scheme. The Student Contribution Charge for the academic year 2023/2024 is €3,000. All third level undergraduate students are liable to pay this fee, unless they qualify for a SUSI grant.
Application deadline for EU students is February 1. There is a late closing date of 1st May but this is not available for all courses or for some categories of applicant. There is a special late closing date of 22nd July for all students currently registered in SETU Waterford or another HEI who wish to transfer to the first year of a different programme.
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Program Information
Carlow
Ireland
- 4 years
- Full Time
- On Campus Learning
Additional Information
- Bachelors
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