Core Courses

These courses provide an introduction to key topics in engineering design and innovation. It includes a major, year-long multidisciplinary project in which students are required to work in a team to define a problem to address and create a proof-of-concept prototype of a solution to the problem.

* Note: This course runs over two consecutive semesters.

CDE5301 Major Design Project (formerly coded as EG5303)

This is a course in which students will work in multi-disciplinary groups to work on a major design project. The problem statement for the project may be self-proposed or it may be provided by industry partners who are keen to work with students on complex challenges which they are facing. In the design process, students will start with understanding stakeholders, developing a mission statement, ideating on the possible design solution and finally prototyping. Students will be expected to apply their understanding of design thinking and engineering systems design to deliver on the project.

CDE5302 Design Thinking and Product Development (formerly coded as EG5302)

This course is an opportunity for graduate students to hone fundamental and practical skills in design thinking and product development. Students will learn the roles of design thinking in value creation, product design, discovery of business opportunity and bridging the gap between problem discovery and solution validation. Students will also gain perspectives in both physical and digital product design through representative works of prominent product and user experience (UX) designers. Students will be immersed in a group design project on emerging themes for example digital health, immersive reality, future of transportation and agri-tech, to solidify the knowledge they learned in the course.

CDE5303 Engineering Systems Design (formerly coded as EG5301)

This core course considers the ever-increasing complexity of modern products and introduces the application of systems engineering methodologies and tools in designing and developing such products. Students will learn the fundamentals of system engineering and the methodologies and tools that are commonly leveraged when considering real life wicked problems.

CDE5304 Ideas to Market

This course is created for students who are already working on a concept product/solution in CDE5301 Major Design Project to enable them to explore commercialisation of their product/solution. In this course, they will learn how to identify potential customers, discover unmet market needs, develop a scalable business model, and create a market launch plan for their product idea using the Adaptive Innovation framework. The final outcome will be a pitch of their product idea to relevant stakeholders including potential investors. This course therefore serves to empower students to make commercialisation decisions which are most relevant for innovation.