School of Engineering and Materials ScienceDesign, Innovation andCreative Engineering

• 4A33 BEng Design, Innovation and Creative Engineering

• 4L71 MEng Design, Innovation and Creative Engineering

Undergraduate Degree Programmes:

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The School of Engineering and Materials ScienceThe School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS) has a long standing reputation for excellent teaching andresearch involving international collaboration with industrial,clinical and university partners. Queen Mary has beenteaching engineering for over 100 years and was the first UKuniversity to establish a Materials Science degree. SEMS hasa population of over 1000 students and an annual intake of approximately 350 students on to a range of engineeringand materials science degrees.

SEMS is proud of its teaching and all of our degrees areranked as either the best in London or within the top five(2014 National Student Survey) and Queen Mary itself hasrecently been recognised as one of the top 100 universitiesin the world (2014 QS World Ranking). Furthermore, SEMSis proud and excited to announce that we are investing£25million to develop additional laboratory spaces which will include dedicated teaching areas exclusively for the use of our undergraduate students.

Design, Innovation andCreative Engineering

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Design, Innovation and CreativeEngineering at Queen Mary The Design, Innovation and Creative Engineering (DICE)degrees at Queen Mary provide a multidisciplinary and aninterdisciplinary approach by combining the study of bothdesign innovation and creative engineering. The DICEdegrees promote an entrepreneurial approach to productdesign development and supports new design ideas to help them reach innovation.

This practical design degree allows you to develop strong creative design capabilities along with scientific andengineering knowledge. You will study core design studiomodules and science and engineering modules in SEMSand in the School of Electronic Engineering and ComputerScience (EECS). The degrees are based on “DesignThinking” and “User Centred Design” which is an importantpart of both design practice and research, and is essentialfor a sound design outcome.

Degree structure

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DICE at Queen Mary is offered as either a three year BEngor a four year MEng degree. You will gain an understandingin the fundamental principles behind design, engineeringand electronic engineering through the multidisciplinarymanner in which the degrees are taught.

The first and second years of the degree focus oncompleting projects which develop the qualities it takes to be a designer such as understanding the artistic approach to designing, understanding user requirements, employing a high level of precision and developing creative solutionsbased on a sound understanding of science.

Core design studios will provide experience and practice indesigning. You will be assigned both group and individualprojects which will be assessed. You will take part in studiotutorials which are led by professional designers who haveexperience in a wide range of disciples. In Year 3, you willtake part in a major group design project which is sponsoredby an industrial partner. You will undertake a final project inYear 4 which is an individual project focused on an area ofyour own particular interest.

A description of each module, and what it entails, can befound on our website under 'Structure'.

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Year 1 Design Studio Engineering Design MethodsArts Application Programming Materials Selection and Mechanical ModellingBridging Arts and TechnologyIntro to MultimediaMathematics for Materials Scientists

Year 2 Studio Practice Course Design for ManufacturingEngineering InstrumentationCreating Interactive ObjectInteractive Media Design and Production Creative ProjectComposites for Aerospace Applications

Year 3 Interaction DesignStudio Practice Course – Group Design ProjectStudio Practice Course – Individual Design ProjectInnovation StrategyMaterials Selection in DesignDigital Media

Year 4 Major Design ProjectOptions: Biosensors and DevicesEnvironmental Properties of MaterialsComputer Aided Engineering for Solids and FluidsAdvanced Environmental EngineeringDesign For Human InteractionNanotechnology Based MaterialsFabrication, Characterisation and ApplicationManufacturing ProcessesImplant Design and TechnologyMedical Ethics, Law and Regulatory Practice inBioengineeringInteractive System Design

The modules shown in bold are the specialist DICE modules

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How you will learn

A variety of teaching methods are employed in SEMS,including lectures, small tutorials, laboratory practicals,Problem-Based Learning activities and project work.Specialist modules are delivered to small groups of DICE students.

Assessment is continuous throughout your degree, withwritten reports, projects, presentations, group work andexams in the summer semester for half of your modules. You can revise for your exams using QMplus which is theUniversity's online learning environment. QMplus allows you to access videos of your lectures and any associatedhandouts.

Studio ProjectsIn the third year, you will undertake a research project which gets which will get you involved with the cutting edgeresearch taking place in SEMS. It is an opportunity for you to apply the skills and techniques learnt from previous years’studies and to focus on your particular area of interest. Youwill work on your own, but will get support, guidance andadvice from your project supervisor, other members of staff,researchers and technicians.

Examples of recent individual research projects are asfollows:

• Smart textile and wearable electronics

• Development of novel multifunctional filaments for 3D printing

• Bio-inspired materials design for enhanced toughness

• Dielectric elastomer actuators for tuneable haptic and optical systems

We aim to produce projects that are of sufficient quality to contribute towards addressing specific industrial needs,generating Intellectual Property (IP) or or projects that areable to attract finding or can be presented at internationalconferences or published in peer-review journals.

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Major Design ProjectStudents studying DICE will spend a lot of time on practicaldesign project in studio time, both as part of a group and asindividuals. Some projects will last a full year and will be incollaboration with an industrial sponsor, other projects will bedefined with specific learning objectives, These projects arenot only a stimulating and immensely enjoyable part of thedegree, but are also highly valued by employers.

FacilitiesSEMS has excellent laboratory and computational facilitieswhich include, amongst others, a Student Workshop, DesignStudios, and the Nanoforce Centre for making nano- and bio-materials.

SEMS are excited to be spending £25 million on developinga new undergraduate Experimental and Testing Area which is to be completed in September 2015. The new facilities will encompass four specialist areas and will be fitted withbespoke equipment designed with the needs of our studentsin mind. We are also spending an additional £500,000 onnew apparatus.

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CareersThe DICE degrees have been developed following industryled demand for high calibre graduates qualified in both thescientific elements of engineering and with strong creativeand design skills. You will gain a unique skill set that will prepare you to work in engineering design, MaterialsScience, Conceptual Design and Product Design. Graduateswill have an in-depth understanding of new technologicaldevelopments and sociocultural requirements in productdevelopment.

Recent design graduates from SEMS have mainly stayed in the design profession. Some graduates have started theirown design consultancies, whilst others have continuedalong the academic route moving on to highly respectedpost-graduate degrees in places such as the Royal College of Art.

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There are over 70 members of staff teaching within SEMS.Below are the specialist Materials and Design staff:

Dr Emiliano BilottiPolymer Nanocomposites, Nanoclays, Carbon Nanotubes, Organic Thermoelectrics, Pyro-resistive Polymer Composites

Dr Russell BinionsChemical Vapour Deposition,Functional Metal Oxide Films, MetalOxide Semiconductor Gas Sensors

Dr Andy BushbyNanoindentation, Micro-mechanics,Biological of The NanoVision Centrefor microscopy

Professor James BusfieldRubber Research Group, finiteelement analysis, polymer materials

Dr Federico CarpiActuator, artificial muscle,bioinspired, dielectric elastomer,electroactive polymer, soft smartmaterial

Dr Steve DunnMaterials Chemistry, surfacephotochemistry, REDOX couplesfrom complex oxide and semi-conductor materials.

Dr Henri HuijbertsNonlinear control systems,nonlinear dynamics, chaos,synchronisation, robotics, time-delay systems

Professor Nobouki OhtaniSports equipment design, Medicaldesign, Design innovation, Electricvehicle design, Designmanagement.

Professor Ton PeijsPolymer technology, compositematerials, nanocomposites, high-performance fibres, biobasedmaterials.

Dr Stuart PetersSystems of innovation, long runevolution of technologies, displaytechnologies and semiconductors,sustainable innovation

Professor Nicola PugnoBio-inspired and nano materials, Super-tough and super-strongmaterials, lotus effect, gecko effect,spider silk and web, spidermansuits and space elevator cables

Professor Mike ReeceProcessing and electromechanicalproperties of functional materials. 

Mr Raza ShahEngineering design and productdevelopment through theapplication of engineering andapplied science and technology.

Dr M Hasan ShaheedRobotics, Medical Robotics, CapsuleRobots, Medical / Surgical devices,Hybrid Energy Systems, SolarHelicopters, Solarcopter

Mr Adam SutcliffeDesign, manufacturing processes,CAD, future of design, industrial,product and service designsolutions.

Dr Haixue YanCeramics Processing andCharacterizations, Spark PlasmaSintering, Nano, Ferroelectrics andPiezoelectrics

Staff teaching on yourdegree

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Why study Design,Innovation and CreativeEngineering at QueenMary?

• Specialist Design, Innovation and Creative Engineering ModulesThe degree offers a broad spectrum of stimulating materials science and design modules throughout the degree.

• Experimental and Computational FacilitiesStudents utilise a range of excellent laboratory facilities forexperimental and computational practicals and project work.

• Research ProjectsIndividual and group 3rd year research projects provide afantastic opportunity for students to participate in theinternationally leading research taking place at Queen Mary.

• StaffStudents are taught by enthusiastic, approachable and friendlystaff, with internationally recognised expertise in many specialistareas of materials science and design.

• Career ProspectsOur graduates are highly valued by employers providing excitingmaterials science job opportunities and excellent employability in a range of careers.

• Student SatisfactionAll our students are individually nurtured and encouraged tofulfil their true potential. This is reflected in the our excellentranking in the recent National Student Survey.

• Queen Mary University of LondonQueen Mary has a long standing reputation for academicexcellence with a friendly, diverse and multicultural campussituated in the heart of London and is one of the top 100universities in the world (2014 QS World Ranking).

• Member of the Russell GroupQueen Mary is one of only 24 universities who make up theprestigious Russell Group. This Group represents the leadinguniversities in the UK. Employers specifically target RussellGroup universities because of the calibre of these institutions'graduates.

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This brochure is intended as asummary guide for your reference.Please visit out website for full detailson our degreeswww.sems.qmul.ac.uk