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Please note that once the maximum class size is reached, the online registration will be closed. You may register your interest and be notified with there is a new run.
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Course Duration:
300 hours (1 year)
PDC to start with:
PDC1
Enquiries
For other enquiries, please email to ptenquiry@sp.edu.sg
The Media, Arts and Design School (MAD) is pleased to introduce our new Specialist Diploma in Design Innovation for Engineering (NSDFE). This course is jointly offered with the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), School of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering (MAE), and Singapore Polytechnic’s FabLab. This is a course that we are offering to enable engineering graduates to further their education in a new knowledge domain as part of the journey in being a life-long learner. This part-time evening course can be completed in one year.
“Innovation often comes from cross-disciplinary ideas. So if you are talking about user experience design, you need both design and engineering knowledge to improve the usability of the product. And you need engineers to also interact with non-engineers, business people, creative, design people, artists, in order to come up with solutions which solve human needs.” (PM Lee Hsien Loong, 2016 at Institution of Engineers, Singapore Golden Jubilee Gala Dinner)
This course aims to address the demands faced by graduates in engineering and technical fields and other non-design sectors, to innovate and address complex multi-disciplinary challenges, since a large number of companies require graduates with engineering and technical backgrounds to develop new innovative products, services, and experiences that are of value to stakeholders with real-world impact. In this regard, the course curriculum adopts a foundational approach that prepares graduates for job functions and work responsibilities in the exciting field of engineering design and innovation.
The course consists of eight modules, with modules 3 to 8 forming three pairs of modules co-developed across MAD, EEE, MAE and FABLAB:
Modules 3 and 4 look into systems engineering design in the consideration of how various products and its components can be interconnected to become of exponential value.
Modules 5 and 6 focus on the technical understanding of design for manufacturing through both the overlapping lenses of the Mechanical Engineer and the Industrial Designer.
Modules 7 and 8, students from various engineering backgrounds work together using design methodology as a framework to create an innovative solution integrating multiple technologies, framed against a backdrop of an advanced technology landscape.
Module pairings, 3 & 4, 5 & 6, and 7 & 8 are required to be taken together
The course is conducted over two semesters within one academic year. Classes will be conducted over two to three evenings per week for 15 weeks each semester.
This course consists of 2 post diploma certificates (PDCs). Each PDC will consist of a few modules and the details are as follows:
PDC 1 Certificate in Design Principles & System Innovation
Module 1 – Product Design (offered by MAD)
Module 2 – User Experience Fundamentals (offered by MAD)
Module 3 – Design-led Engineering System 1 (offered by EEE)
Module 4 – Design-led Engineering System 2 (offered by MAD)
PDC 2 Certificate in Digital Prototyping & Applied Innovation
Module 5 – Mechanical Engineering Design 1 (offered by MAE)
Module 6 – Mechanical Engineering Design 2 (offered by MAD)
Module 7 – Innovation Design Project 1 (offered by FABLAB)
Module 8 – Innovation Design Project 2 (offered by MAD)
Please click here for Module Synopsis