Master of Design Engineering
DURATION
2 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
EUR 5,120
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Introduction
Today’s young practitioners work in an environment where design is crucial to competitive business and the demand for high-quality design in society is growing, along with the increasing role of the latest technologies in every industry and aspect of life.
The 21st century requires engineers capable of designing new products and quickly getting them to customers. The RTU Master of Design Engineering program is designed to train modern engineers to generate compelling new ideas and translate them into practical design and mass production of innovative and cost-effective new products with passion.
The two-year program is designed for students who have shown academic excellence, as well as engineering professionals who wish to delve more deeply into design or textile and clothing design and production subject matter, increase opportunities for industry advancement, and enhance their technical skills.
The vigorous curriculum is based on scientific discovery, the latest technologies, and materials creative application in design project solutions to meet user needs, considering the functional, aesthetic, environmental safety, sustainability, and production requirements.
Students learn from world-renowned, faculty members with a broad range of experience and expertise dedicated to creative, comprehensive teaching and research that ranges from fundamental to applied.
The program pays great attention to project-oriented studies and the acquisition and use of computer-aided design skills for the interpretation of commercial and technical information, transformation into technological solutions, and business networks.
Gain the skills necessary to develop your compelling ideas into innovative and cost-effective new products with a graduate degree from Riga Technical University.
Program Overview
The Master of Design Engineering program is intended as a “launch pad” for 21st-century creative engineers.
Degree offered: Professional Master's Degree in Design Engineering.
Questions
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Curriculum
Students gain a broad knowledge and in-depth understanding with a curriculum that includes:
- Design & Technologies Challenges for the 21st Century
- Contemporary Issues of Strategic Management and Marketing
- Clothing Design 2D and 3D Technologies
- Innovations in Textile Materials
- Design Commentary and Criticism
- Product Life Cycle and Quality System Management
Program Outcome
Designed to benefit students from a broad spectrum of backgrounds, the program aims to enable students to:
- Demonstrate basic and specialized knowledge relevant to the design specialization or the specialization of clothing and textile production technologies.
- Be familiar with the methods of research planning, processing, and interpretation of results, able to perform comparative analysis and assess compliance with the problem to be solved, understanding the need to ensure the reliability of the data obtained and being able to provide it for research in the field related to the specialization.
- Develop conceptual solutions for the spatial environment, products and/or their collections according to consumer needs and project/market requirements, demonstrate the conceptual solution through preliminary design drawings, mock-ups, and prototypes; create 2D & 3D visualizations in digital environments.
- Manage the development of products, collections, long-term and short-term brands, administer contracts, and perform author’s supervision in project execution.
- Coordinate work outcomes with clients, cooperation partners and necessary institutions; plan the necessary research, analyze, and design a product promotion campaign; organize order delivery to customers, arrange and perform quality management of order fulfilment; draw up documents in conformity with the requirements of record keeping regulatory enactments.
- Perform professional, innovative, and research activities, formulate and analytically describe information, plan and perform research necessary for problem identification and solution finding in the chosen specialization and related science sector.