Industrial Design Engineering and Innovation POLI.design - Milan (Italy)

Overview

This Industrial Design Engineering and Innovation course from POLI.design - Milan (Italy) was created to mold capable designers who can manage the entire development of a new product from the initial concept to the manufacturing stage.

This Specializing Master joins the artistic and humanistic skills belonging to design culture with the technical know-how that relates to production technology, materials, and manufacturing costs. It strives to meet the need to operate in a worldwide landscape of heightened competition where the designer can increase the value of a product by making innovations – in both aesthetics and usability – that take advantage of available technologies. The aim is to train professionals whose creative capacity is matched by technical expertise and awareness in a product’s industrial feasibility.

The Master aims to develop professionals who are able to deal with the design and production process of large and small series industrial products, placing special emphasis on technological, production and cost aspects,without neglecting the aspects of  expressivequality.

The curriculum offered by the Master in Industrial Design, Engineering and Innovation combines the artistic and humanistic skills related to project culture and language of the product with techniques related to manufacturing technologies, materials and industrial costs. This way, it aims to respond to the need to compete in an increasingly competitive international scene, in which the designer is able to enhance product value by generating innovations (aesthetic and use) that take advantage of the possibilities offered by the available technologies. It is therefore of primary importance to develop professionals that combine creative skills with sound technical skills related to industrial feasibility of the product.

Career opportunities:

The Master programme was created to train expert designers, who can develop a new product from its concept to production. The employment opportunities are:

• working with professional firms which participate in the various product development stages, from concept to engineering;
• working with manufacturing companies belonging to the sectors which make up the Italian production industry (e.g. house hold and professional appliances, lighting, furniture, toys and children’s products);
• freelancing with enhanced skills to interact with the business world.

The professional role will be an expert productdesigner, with theoretical knowledge combined with significant experience applied to production processes. By achieving the necessary professional field experience, students can aspire to the role of product manager responsible for the development of new products.