Undergraduate Degree in Industrial Design Engineering

The aim of the Undergraduate Degree in Industrial Design Engineering is to offer you the necessary knowledge and skills to be able to develop an experimentation creative attitude, with scientific and humanistic criteria, which are relevant and innovative. You will learn to set new realities to understand the historical, social, cultural, economic and technological context. Furthermore, you will learn to integrate formal sensibility as a fundamental part of the project process.

• You will evaluate the properties of materials and their manufacturing processes in order to select them and characterise them.
• You will apply modelling and simulation techniques to make decisions in the project development.
• You will understand and apply data, from the most abstract ones to the more specific ones.
• You will apply graphic expression techniques to visualise and communicate the product design and development.
• You will use basic fundamentals of economy and business to manage an organization, whether it is on a freelance basis or in a company.
• You will elaborate prototypes that will allow communication and the technical justification.
• You will recognize scientific methods to include research resources into the decision making.
• You will understand the current industrial reality to work in the professional setting.
• You will identify emergent technologies that can give value to the project.

Design and Materials 

Technical, formal and creative design process. In the Degree in Industrial Design Engineering you will experiment with materials taking into account the current trends (social, cultural, aesthetic, technological, economical and environmental).

Development and Simulation

Creative process with vision to define technologies of product manufacturing and resource optimization. This mention of the Degree in Industrial Design Engineering will teach you simulation of processes, structures and shapes before they exist.

Management and Data

This mention of the Degree in Industrial Design Engineering will specialise you in the technical management of the project with technological and economical viability. Innovation and continuous improvement of the product, system or service. Management and usage of data to influence in the proves of design from start to finish.

Once the Undergraduate Degree in Industrial Design Engineering is finished, you will have the necessary knowledge and skills to promote qualitative improvements in the activity of any company, study, R & D department, technical office or project of which you are a part. Or you can even start your own project and start a start-up in any field and sector.

Some examples are:

• Transport and mobility: design of cars or components for cars, electric bikes, electric scooters, airplanes and autonomous mobility.
• Consumer electronics: design and development of products in electronic devices such as mobiles or tablets. Electronic accessories and intelligent fabrics.
• Wearables: integration of new materials and digital technology in fabrics, electronic accessories.
• Biomedical: material design for hospitals, replacements and lab tools.
• Food: packaging design.
• Sport: integration of technology in fabrics and electronic accessories.
• Digital applications: design and development of websites, mobile apps, internet of things, augmented reality and virtual reality.
• Sustainability: experimentation with biodegradable materials, circular design and recycling, environmental analysis of products.

90% of our students find work in the months following the end of the degree. In addition, 80% would repeat Grade and University*. *Source: estudis.aqu.cat/dades/web/inici 

Some alumni of the Degree in Industrial Design Engineering you may know:

• Elena Vivas from Reebook
• Meritxell Pujol from IKEA
• Cesar Rojo from Cero Design
• Mireia Vilalta from Danone
• David Matanzas from AIRK Drones
• Ivan Pajares from IDNEO
• Oriol Berotmeu from Grifols
• Eduard Niubo from Rucker
• Alejandro Mesonero from SEAT – Head of Design
• Marc Illan from Adidas - Senior Footwear Designer
• Raquel Ojeda from LEGO (Denmark)
• José López from OIKO
• Aleix Inglés from Samsung (UK)

For Elisava, keeping in touch with the business and institutional sector is one of the basic pillars of training. The collaboration with the business and institutional sector is part of the day to day of the School. That is why, during the four years of the Undergraduate Degree in Design, you will have the opportunity to participate in academic projects, workshops and other activities carried out in collaboration with companies and institutions such as Hard Rock Café, Sony, Swarovski, HP, Desigual, Danone, SEAT, Santa & Cole, Sónar, Mira, MACBA, Fundació Arrels, Desis Network and Victoria & Albert Museum. When you have 120 credits, you will have the opportunity to take curricular and/or extracurricular internships in front-line companies. This experience will allow you to learn and acquire the knowledge and resources necessary to enter the labour market.

Another of the pillars that we promote to enrich training is the exchange and the mobility of students and teachers. Therefore, we work daily to promote the international relations of Elisava with other institutions, educational centres, universities and research centres around the world.  The proof of our work is that currently we have agreements with more than 70 universities. Among them are the most recognized and influential in the design and engineering sector worldwide.

Undergraduate Degree in Industrial Design Engineering (UVic-UCC, from the 2021-22 academic year)

The first course of the Degree in Industrial Design Engineering is made up of subjects that will give you a global vision of the fundamental concepts of engineering and design. During the second course we will give you a global vision of the profession's future. You will be able to experiment with the most advanced and emerging technologies.

Thus, during the first two years you will learn, on the one hand, the scientific-technical, expression and representation tools necessary for technical resolution, formalization and product development; and on the other, you will immerse yourself in the culture of aesthetics and design, necessary for the contextualization and formalization of the product necessary for the development of the profession.

The third year is a year of innovation where you will apply the knowledge obtained in the part of the design process in which you want to specialize, your mention. Also in this course, you will be able to carry out curricular internships or take a semester at a foreign university through the Erasmus program.

Apart from the subjects of your mention, during the third and fourth years, you will take compulsory subjects in the project area and others of a multidisciplinary nature in the field of business, industrial processes and programming and interaction in the product. These contents will provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to apply strategies for innovation, management, entrepreneurship and new business models in the engineering and product field.

The fourth year is a professionalizing year during which you will have to develop your Final Degree Project (TFG), where you will demonstrate your personal positioning through a project that integrates and demonstrates all the skills that you will have acquired throughout the Degree.

*Study plan in the process of verification by AQU Catalunya.