Location:

Singapore, Singapore

Program Type:

Full Degree

Degree Level:

Master

Specialty:

Industrial Design

Program Overview

Program Description:

Consumers today demand products that have extended functionality, increased complexity, enhanced smartness and impeccable aesthetics. The increased functionality, complexity, and smartness means the ability of products to identify and respond to changes in the environment and user's needs. These must be achieved with higher quality and reliability with reduced manufacturing and societal costs. The smart product design process is concerned with the flexibility of response and adaptability of design to meet to these customer requirements and also product life cycle demands; and at the same time enabling the trade-offs to take place between discipline-specific capabilities. This is achieved through the enhancement of control in the products using electronics, including microprocessors and micro-controllers. In short, integrating mechatronics into product design. Product design and mechatronics has been identified by the Economic Development Board, National Science and Technology Board and the Productivity and Standards Boards as one of the key areas critical to the development of the industries in Singapore. This Master of Science (Smart Product Design) programme is specifically designed for graduate engineers, designers, research and development engineers and other related professionals with the knowledge and expertise in product design, electronics and control, software engineering and manufacturing to design, develop and manufacture smart products.