Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering

The bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering taught at the UPC campus in Vilanova i la Geltrú qualifies you for multidisciplinary work in industrial design and product development. You will acquire the competencies you need to deal with knowledge management and sufficient design experience to be able to plan the entire life cycle of a product, with an emphasis on creativity and innovation.

What can I learn by taking the bachelor's degree in Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering on the UPC Vilanova Campus?

Product Design and Manufacture

This complements the training acquired and increases knowledge of the most current tools for designing products, selecting the most appropriate materials and analysing how the components work, following a methodology based on real facts.

User-Centered Design and Inclusive Design

In this pathway, the relationship between designer, design and user is explored. You will study how to design to meet the needs, abilities and expectations of users and other stakeholders and how to incorporate these factors from conception to the final result.

Teams

Currently, many universities are committed to enhancing students' training in international university competition teams in which students must make their own pre-Moto3 design for electric motorcycles or single-seater vehicles.

+8 Reasons to study this degree

84% of graduates get a job in their field
Creation of new products, concepts and services
You will learn to generate virtual models and prototypes
Practical teaching model with real projects
Building of competition vehicles
+ 300 internship agreements in companies
+60 international mobility agreements in 25 countries
11 research groups

Students’ experience

Combine creativity and graphic design
Allows the possibility to simultaneity with other studies
The learning model includes practices in all subjects
Possibility to study abroad for a semester
The face2face allows you to get in contact with companies
You need to plan and avoid waiting until the last minute to study

Acces information and curriculum of the Degree in Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering

Duration: 4 years
Study load: 240 ECTS credits (including the bachelor’s thesis). One credit is equivalent to 25-30 hours of study.
Delivery: Face-to-face.
Minimum entrance mark (2024-2025 academic year): 8.105
Timetable: Mornings and afternoons
Fees and grants: Approximate fees per academic year: €1,107 Consult the public fees system based on income (grants and payment options)
Official degree: Recorded in the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities’ degree register
Coordinator of the bachelor’s degree: Jasmina Berbegal Mirabent

Weighting of university entrance examinations (PAU)

Subject weighting table for the specific stage

Places

100

Admission

Entrance routes and enrolment.

Validation of higher training cycles (CFGS)

Legalisation of documents

All documents issued in countries outside the European Union must be legalised through diplomatic channels or carry the corresponding apostille.

First semester

Second semester

Third semester

Fourth semester

Fifth semester

Sixth semester

Seventh semester

(Ang) Marketing and Production 6
Optional 24

Eighth semester

Bachelor's thesis 24
Optional 6

Obligatory186 ECTS
Optional30 ECTS
bachelo's thesis24 ECTS
TOTAL240 ECTS

Check the recommendations for the order of enrollment of the subjects, as well as the semester in which teaching is offered. Semester 1 (Q1) runs from September to January and Semester 2 (Q2) runs from February to June.

Optional credits can be obtained by taking optional subjects or by other means.

Specific optional subjects of the Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Design and Product Development Engineering

User-Centered Design and Inclusive Design Itinerary

User-Centered Design and Inclusive Design Itinerary

Beyond the perception of design as problem and solution, this pathway explores the relationship between designer, design and user. The interaction and relationship among these three elements in a design process become the keys to the success or failure of the end result. The three subjects in the pathway complement and reinforce each other to influence fundamental aspects of the design process. You will study how to design to meet the needs, abilities and expectations of users and other stakeholders and how to incorporate these factors from conception to the final result.
Product Design and Manufacture Itinerary

Product Design and Manufacture Itinerary

The Product Design and Manufacture pathway complements the training acquired and increases knowledge of the most current tools for designing products, selecting the most appropriate materials and analysing how the components work, following an inductive methodology based on real facts. The most current tools and techniques in these fields are used, with the student at the centre of the learning process.

Cross-curricular electives

Social Itinerary

Social Itinerary

Engineers, in addition to solving technological problems and proposing advances, must always consider the social and environmental implications of their work and take responsibility for them. How do our design decisions affect our environment? How do they affect society? Do our proposals bring us closer to the world we want or take us away from it?
In this pathway, by carrying out your own projects in real scenarios you will learn how technology can be part of the solution to the multiple problems that so-called development causes. There are three decisive challenges. The first is how to ensure that technology has a positive influence, both on the environment and on society, through sustainable design and sustainable technologies. The second is how to ensure inclusion based on the equity, participation and accessibility of people in their interaction with the environment. The third is how to ensure beneficial coexistence with robots when their social behaviour is designed.
In the three subjects that make up this pathway, the perspective of socially responsible technology is adopted. We know that ingenuity, creativity and technique have enormous power to shape the future of the natural environment and human relationships. We also know that our engineers have the key competencies to contribute to it.
Teams Itinerary

Teams Itinerary

Currently, many universities are committed to enhancing students' training in international university competition teams such as MotoStudent and Formula Student, in which students must make their own pre-Moto3 design for electric motorcycles or single-seater vehicles. These projects involve team management, organisation, electrical, electronic, mechanical, informatics and design engineering, funding, business management, communications, etc. The aim of the subjects offered is to address and consolidate all these practical aspects so that students can carry out the best project and complement the skills that will bring them as close as possible to leading a real project.
- Moto Student 1 (Q5)6
- Moto Student 2 (Q6)6
- Formula Student 1 (Q5)6
- Formula Student 2 (Q6)6
- Agil (Q5)6
Internationalization Itinerary

Internationalization Itinerary

The Internationalisation pathway is designed to improve the ability to communicate in English in academic and professional settings. Through oral and written communication subjects, students acquire a series of skills essential for the practice of engineering in an increasingly internationalised world. Students learn how to present their projects effectively and how to successfully participate in academic and professional situations (by practising job interviews, writing a CV and technical reports, different types of oral presentations, etc.). By emphasising a variety of intercultural and professional competencies and incorporating an internationalisation-at-home experience, the Internationalisation pathway aims to prepare students to study and work in a global setting.

If the 18 credits of the same itinerary are exceeded, an accrediting diploma will be issued, upon request to the SIAE, through the Demana.

Professional opportunities

Analysis and diagnosis of products and processes in companies in any industrial sector; technical, design, research and project departments; and new product development departments.
Market analysis and detection of opportunities for new products; diagnosis in innovation and business strategy.
Composition and analysis of forms; modelling, simulation and development of models and prototypes.
Ergonomics and aesthetics of industrial products and processes.
Consultancy and advisory services.
Freelance work: provision of consultancy and advisory services in design companies.
Public administration.
Teaching and research.

Tutorial action on each degree is conceived as a service for students in which tutors guide, inform and advise them on how the University works and how it is regulated.

Their main functions are listed below.

To advise students on the following:
- Planning their enrolment in accordance with their academic progress and the recommendations for enrolment..
- Improving their academic performance (study methods and use of learning resources such as the School’s library and other services).
- Assessment processes (for subjects and for curricular assessment of initial and final stages).
- Taking optional credits or having them recognised, external placements and participation in national and international mobility programmes.
- Choosing and carrying out the bachelor’s or master’s thesis.
To direct students to other people or services at the School to solve specific issues.
To collect students’ proposals for improving teaching and degrees.

In the Tutorial Action Plan, each student on each degree is assigned a tutor from the group of tutors for the corresponding stage:

Initial stage if the student has not yet passed 120 ECTS credits
Final stage if the student has passed 120 ECTS credits

Tutors for the initial stage teach in the first half of the degree and tutors for the final stage teach in the second half of the degree.

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