MSc Engineering Design Management
Master's Programme
Engineering Design Management
Our MSc in Engineering Design Management has been designed to bridge the gap between engineering and design. It integrates principles from both disciplines to provide for a deep understanding of how the two areas intersect and complement each other.
Start date:
29 September 2025
Duration:
12 months, full time
Award:
Master of Science (MSc)
Application deadline:
2 August 2025
Highlights and benefits
- Develop the skills to engage, connect and influence stakeholders at each level of business, to deliver on strategic goals.
- Applied, industry-focused learning at one of the UK's leading Russell Group Universities, provides you with the opportunity to gain real-world insight alongside academically challenging studies.
- Developed in collaboration with industrial leaders, influential designers and the leading engineering education and research community in WMG, this course draws on research expertise as well as industry engagement.
Overview
This course has been designed to bridge the gap between engineering and design. It integrates principles from both disciplines to provide for a deep understanding of how the two areas intersect and complement each other. Throughout the course, you will develop the skills to engage, connect and influence stakeholders at each level of business, to deliver on strategic goals.
This course provides an environment of experiential learning through the authentic practice of Engineering Design Management, structured within a programme supported by academic rigour. It will enable you to identify opportunities for innovation, harness creative thinking, use state of the art technologies to aid the design process, and gain the project management skills to deliver new design projects.
Sustainability and product lifecycle management is core to the design process, and as a student, you will have access to a mixed-medium production design lab and expert technical staff to develop and execute technical design ability and project management. You will have the opportunity to work within interdisciplinary teams to experience engineering design management in practice through managed role displacement with a live design project. The programme will feature guest speakers and masterclasses from industry and influential figures from the design community.
The MSc in Engineering Design Management has been created in response to an explicit demand from the engineering industry, to address the need for professionals able to deliver value across various technical and business functions, utilising a design engineering mindset. The programme has been developed with industrial leaders, influential design community figures and the leading engineering educational community of WMG.
Reasons to study Engineering Design Management at Warwick
- Skills development: Gain expertise in emerging and evolving digital technologies for design.
- Expertise: Learn from a team of highly experienced engineers and designers working and researching at the forefront of their field. Course content is informed by the latest academic research and industry insight.
- Industry relevance: Understand the bigger picture of how the design process works and how to optimise and streamline it to deliver best practice and impact.
- Academic excellence: Study within the interdisciplinary WMG department, the largest academic department at the University of Warwick where technology and engineering meet business and management.
- Facilities: Benefit from WMG's industry standard engineering facilities and mixed-medium production design lab.
- Scale and reputation: Be part of the WMG department with 1400 full-time MSc students across a portfolio of courses, and 34 research groups driving over 40% of all research conducted at the University of Warwick.
- Career development: Develop an industry standard portfolio throughout the course and enjoy networking and placement opportunities with leaders in the design industry.
Meet the Course Director: Nick Golsby
Having joined WMG as an Associate Professor in Design Engineering, Nick brings considerable experience in leading curriculum design and transformation in the fields of Engineering Design, Manufacturing and Materials, Metals and Composites, and Sustainability. With a keen focus on sustainability, Nick provides engineering solutions to complex design problems.
Scholarships and Bursaries
WMG will be awarding over £1.5 million in scholarships and bursaries to students commencing study on any of our full-time MSc programmes beginning in September 2025.
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Ready to study at WMG?
We look forward to receiving your MSc application. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.