7 Courses
BPDE 231 Introduction to Modelling
This course will introduce students to product design and modelling through the use of computer modelling, rendering and digital fabrication.
BPDE 232 Product Design Methods
This course is designed to introduce students to the new design methods such as open engineering and crowd-sourcing ideas and how these new methods relate to each other, to the new problems that they are intended to solve and to the traditional methods they are intended to replace.
BPDE 233 Perspective Drawing
This drawing course is designed to give, an opportunity for students to utilise all the knowledge and experience acquired in their previous art courses, in order to create a body of work that demonstrates expertise in manual drawing.
BPDE 234 Nature of Materials and Processes
This course emphasises the materials and processes used in manufacturing. Fundamentals include the properties, structure and nature of materials for manufactured goods, such as ferrous and nonferrous metals and alloys, plastics, wood, composites and ceramics, and the selection of materials for various functions. Such knowledge will help the designer to avoid ill-conceived pieces, devised to look good in the media but with little technical integrity.
BPDE 235 Manufacturing Processes I
This course seeks to introduce students to the concept of Modern Manufacturing
Technology as an answer to the need to make Products competitive in this era of Globalisation. It further enhances students’ competencies in the acquisition of hands-on experience in the Traditional Jobbing Type Workshop Environment.
BPDE 236 Three-Dimensional Design in Computing
This course provides students with a broad knowledge in 3-dimensional computer-Aided Design (CAD) and modelling with a focus on design and product-design-specific applications.
ACDT 237 Introduction to Entrepreneurship
This course seeks to introduce students to the concept of Entrepreneurship, which is the predominant form of business organisation and is the world's oldest profession. It further seeks to inculcate into students a zeal and how to identify, organise and start a new business in design and related areas.
