This is a practical course that focuses on meeting real commercial needs; in addition to the industry placement the course gives students exposure to real commercial situations through industrial partners who will provide lecturing input and genuine live case studies for students to work on; the course is designed as a Master's programme but has exit points at both postgraduate certificate and diploma level; for their placement and major project students can choose to specialise in either rapid product development which focuses on the design and development of products through to manufacture using rapid product development techniques; or computer embedded devices which develops techniques for designing and prototyping information appliances such as mobile phones.
Other courses at Cardiff Metropolitan University (former University of Wales Institute, Cardiff)
MSc Environmental Impact Assessment and Management