The industrial design labor market demands professionals specialized in product development. Enroll now in this advanced master’s degree and acquire the knowledge and skills to excel in this sector"

Industry and society are interconnected. Companies dedicated to product and material design and development work every day to obtain results that are increasingly adapted to the specifications and requirements demanded by the sector. That is why, after decades of research and technological advances, today it is possible to find lighter and lighter vehicles, highly ergonomic bicycles, household goods that serve as storage and decoration in equal parts, electronic equipment and household appliances that are increasingly functional, to name a few. Industrial design is present wherever you look.

Within this sector, planning and development tasks in product creation take on special relevance, allowing us not only to reduce costs and increase productivity in manufacturing, but also to adapt them to the specific needs of a specific public, making them more attractive for distribution and sale. For this reason, professionals working in this sector must master the latest and most effective tools and techniques that allow them to carry out an efficient and highly marketable design.

Thanks to this advanced master’s degree in Industrial Design and Product Development, students will be able to perfect their skills and expand their skills to carry out a production adapted to the latest developments in the profession, a feature that is currently in great demand in the labor market. It is a comprehensive program that delves into both the beginning of the design process, with exhaustive planning from the manufacturing point of view, to marketing strategies, as well as the use of the most appropriate tools and materials and their sustainable development.

A comprehensive and 100% online program designed by experts in the sector who have adapted the best theoretical and practical content to the methodology that characterizes TECH, making this course a unique and enriching academic experience. In addition, thanks to the hours of additional material in different formats that students will find in the Virtual Classroom, they will be able to delve deeper into each section of the syllabus they consider most relevant, thus offering customized learning for each individual's needs.

Delving into sustainable design characterization and its tools, will allow you to work reducing the ecological footprint, but without losing the quality and effectiveness of the final product"

This advanced master’s degree in Industrial Design and Product Development contains the most complete and up-to-date educational program on the market. The most important features include:

• Practical cases presented by experts in Industrial Design
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created, provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• Special emphasis on innovative methodologies in Industrial Design and Product Development
• Theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

This advanced master’s degree includes a specific module dedicated to technical representation systems, with which you will be able to perfect your skills using design tools"

Its teaching staff includes professionals from the field of journalism, who bring to this program the experience of their work, as well as renowned specialists from reference societies and prestigious universities.
The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive experience designed to prepare for real-life situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the student must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout the program. For this purpose, the professional will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts.

You will have access to case studies designed by design experts with which you will be able to work on your creativity and learn the best techniques to overcome the fear of blank paper"

A comprehensive program that delves into the trends of industrial design specializing in different sectors: interior, digital, product or fashion"

Given the current demand for industrial design professionals specialized in product development, TECH has designed this program with the aim of providing students with all the tools they need to broaden their skills in this sector and obtain specialized knowledge. In addition, for many companies the environmental factor is very important, so this program places special emphasis on eco-design so that students can use it as a distinctive asset in their work practice and in any personnel selection process. 

This program will positively influence your professional career, allowing you to achieve your most ambitious career goals based on innovative and practical knowledge of Industrial Design"

General Objectives

• Know how to synthesize one’s own interests, through observation and critical thinking, translating them into artistic creations
• Learn to plan, develop and present artistic productions appropriately, using effective production strategies and with their own creative contributions
• Acquire theoretical and practical methodological knowledge necessary for the realization of technical projects
• Analyze and evaluate materials used in engineering based on their properties
• Expand your knowledge of the innovation and technology transfer processes for the development of new products and processes and the establishment of a new state of the art
• Understand the creative, analytical and study process for the realization of any work
• Deepen market analysis techniques and apply them to communication and marketing processes in project development
• Understand the basic concepts that are part of the communication policy of an organization: Its identity, its culture, how it communicates, its image, its brand, its reputation and social responsibility
• Know the basics of design, as well as the references, styles and movements that have shaped it from its beginnings to the present day

Specific Objectives 

Module 1. Fundamentals of Design

• Connect and correlate the different areas of design, fields of application and professional branches
• Know the processes of ideation, creativity and experimentation and know how to apply them to projects
• Integrate language and semantics in the ideation processes of a project, relating them to its objectives and use values

Module 2. Fundamentals of Creativity

• Know how to synthesize one’s own interests, through observation and critical thinking, translating them into artistic creations
• Losing the fear of artistic blockage and using techniques to combat it
• Investigate in oneself, in one's own emotional space and in what is around, in such a way that an analysis of these elements is carried out in order to use them in favor of one's own creativity

Module 3. Technical Representation Systems

• Use knowledge of representation systems as a tool in the search for solutions to design problems
• Develop conception and spatial vision, obtaining new tools that encourage the promotion and generation of ideas
• Learn to represent objects in the dihedral, axonometric and conic systems as a means of conveying an idea for their realization

Module 4. Materials

• Know nanomaterial principles
• Understand, analyze and evaluate the processes of corrosion and degradation of materials 
• Evaluate and analyze the different techniques for non-destructive testing of materials

Module 5. Design of Mechanical Elements

• Master all aspects of Mechanical Engineering design
• Develop patents, utility models and industrial designs
• Evaluate the different failure theories for their application to each machine element
• Design, analyze and evaluate machine components using state-of-the-art design tools
• Evaluate the different alternatives for the design of machine elements

Module 6. Design for Manufacturing

• Identify the stages and production phases of a project
• Achieve a sufficient level of knowledge related to the specific objectives and techniques related to the production area
• Analyze production from a strategic perspective

Module 7. Product Design and Development

• Establish all the actors to be taken into account in the design and development process of a new product for its correct performance in terms of quality, time, cost, resources, communications and risks 
• Carry out in depth analysis of the phases related to the development of the manufacturing process until the moment the product is available according to the initial requirements 
• Achieve a detailed understanding of the product validation process to ensure that it meets all expected quality requirements 

Module 8. Materials for Design

• Work with the most suitable materials in each case, in the field of product design
• Explain and describe the main families of materials: their manufacture, typologies, properties, etc

Module 9. Industrial Production

• Know the basic physical principles and execution of the different manufacturing processes
• Know the most common instruments used for longitudinal measurements in mechanical manufacturing, including constructive and metrological characteristics 
• Adapt to the methodology and definition of requirements according to the application for which the procedure is intended
• Elaborate approximations of the abstract world of the project to the real world, by means of two-dimensional and virtual graphic presentation in three dimensions, using specific software

Module 10. Ethics and Business

• Acquire an integrated and global vision of the practice of design, understanding the social, ethical, professional responsibility of design and its role in society 
• Know and apply the terminology and methodology specific to the professional environment

Module 11. Digital Technology

• Master the vocabulary, methodologies and theoretical and practical content on Digital Imaging
• Master the vocabulary, methodologies and theoretical and practical content on Vectorial Imaging

Module 12. Fundamentals of Marketing

• Understand the central role of communication in a historical time defined by the paradigms of the information and knowledge society 
• Knowledge of communication processes in all their social manifestations (interpersonal, group and media)
• Analyze the different approaches and disciplinary and theoretical approaches to communication
• Develop an understanding of vocabulary adapted to the basic language of marketing and communication
• Knowledge of the characteristics of social media and their difference with mass media, as well as their implications and the changes they have generated in marketing and design management

Module 13. Corporate Image

• Understand which are the strategic areas that a graphic manager must manage in the communicative process of the graphic and visual identity of brands

Module 14. Sustainable Design

• Recognize the sustainability setting and environmental context
• Know the main tools for environmental impact analysis
• Recognize the importance of sustainability in design
• Know the environmental regulations relevant to design
• Be able to develop a sustainable product design strategy

Module 15. Packaging Design

• Promote in students the global vision of packaging and label design, understanding it as an activity in which many factors must be taken into account, from the product it accompanies to its physical and socioeconomic context
• Train students, through practice, in the competence for the professional development of packaging and label design projects
  
  

If your academic goals include acquiring the professional skills that will enable you to master mechanical engineering design, this program will give you the tools to achieve it”