In today’s fast-changing global market, you need advanced engineering knowledge and highly developed skills to create competitive and sustainable products, services, and business models. In this programme, you will also develop a strong understanding of the complexity of sociotechnical systems at different levels, learning how to navigate development processes that are often ambiguous, involve conflicting requirements and expectations, and must sometimes be approached as wicked problems. The master's programme in Integrated Product Design offers two specialisation tracks: Industrial Design Engineering and Innovation Management and Product Development. The programme comprises a combination of mandatory and elective courses within the two specialisation tracks, allowing you to tailor your studies according to your interests and career goals. During the programme, you will have contact with industry, and projects are often conducted in cooperation with companies or organisations, providing you with valuable practical experience.
The two-year programme (120 ECTS credits) is in English. Graduates are awarded a Master of Science degree. Activities within the programme are mainly held at the KTH Campus in Stockholm by KTH’s School of Industrial Engineering and Management, with access to facilities at the Department of Engineering Design and the KTH Prototype Centre.
Industrial Design Engineering track
The Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) track focuses on the design, functionality, and communicative aspects of products in relation to users and markets. You will study and work in product, service, and system design. You will improve your skills in product development by merging a mechanical engineering perspective with an industrial design perspective. The activities covered in the design process include user insights, ideation, concept screening, form-giving and visualisation, branding, prototyping, overall systems design, material selection, manufacturing, and sustainable development.
In development projects across the programme track, you will collaborate closely with companies and organisations that have identified a potential new product or service, or an improvement to an existing one. From an IDE perspective, these cases should include a range of user interactions and technical complexities to ensure that industrial design and mechanical engineering knowledge are required. The solutions you develop should address user needs and be adapted to user behaviour. In previous years, students have, for example, redesigned urban bicycle services for Stockholm and designed sustainable clothing service systems.
As IDE integrates industrial design and mechanical engineering, the teachers at IDE have backgrounds in either field. This also requires that the students who apply have completed both industrial design and mechanical engineering courses in their bachelor's degree.
Innovation Management and Product Development track
The Innovation Management and Product Development track focuses on managing innovation and product development processes. You will study and work with innovation in three ways: you will develop results in terms of new products, services, and business models, you will organise and manage innovation processes from both a development project perspective and an organisational structure perspective, and, finally, you will work on innovation strategies in terms of new business development. In this track, you will engage with cutting-edge research in innovation management and product development, and you will collaborate closely with industry.
Courses and projects in the track explore innovation from several perspectives:
| QS 综合 | 院校 | 学制 | 学费 |
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| 第 87 位 | 米兰理工大学Politecnico di Milano | 2 年 | - |