Course group - D-DTI-S8
The design engineer of today: the interdisciplinary specialisation, Design, Conception and Innovation.
The term “design” is often used to refer to a style or an original and eccentric universe … In the engineering profession the term “design” takes on a quite different meaning: we will talk about “conception”, “innovation”, and “industrial design”.
Engineering and design are the two inseparable components of object conception (products, services, machines, systems) from the moment there is a user, an operator and a consumer.
Renault was the first company in France to set up combined conception teams, associating engineers with designers. Today innumerable enterprises, from very different sectors, have integrated design into their conception and innovation processes, such as for example Orange, EDF or SEB.
The aim of the programme is to master the practical aspects, tools and methods for the development of innovating design projects by combining technical, creative, societal and environmental dimensions. These skills will enable engineering students to work efficiently in the mixed conception teams, associating engineers and designers, to be found today in major industrial groups.
The interdisciplinary specialisation is organised into 3 sections spread over two semesters.
- Section 1 : Conception
This section presents the design profession, its practices, its role in industry and interactions with engineering professions, by means of case studies and practical applications.
Unit (S8) : Practices and methods of the designer; sociology of innovation
Unit (S9) : User centered design, design thinking
Lecturers: Lecturer/Researchers and external design professionals
- Section 2 : Manufacturing Through practical exercises, students will learn different techniques of modelling and prototyping. Dynamic objects will be built using Arduino cards.
Unit (S8) : Materials and processes, prototyping
Lecturers: Lecturer/Researchers
- Section 3 : Industrialisation
This section deals with the progression from an idea, to a good idea, innovation and finally industrial success.
Unit (S9): Conception of joint product + service offers – Eco-responsibility in industry.
Lecturers: Lecturer/Researchers and external design professionals
Industrial design calls on a range of methods and tools to generate innovation. It can be applied to all industrial sectors.
This specialisation can be combined with the Creation, Innovation and Entrepreneurship programme and the Industrial project.
The interdisciplinary specialisation is compatible with the following Toolboxes (TB) :
This specialisation is also coherent with the Masters in Prospective Design (ProDe), run jointly by the Mines Saint-Etienne, the IAE (Institute of Business Administration) and the Higher School of Art and Design of Saint-Etienne.