Innovation Design Engineering is no longer accepting applications for
2013/14 entry; applications already received are currently being
assessed.
If you are considering applying for 2014/15 entry, you can prepare
for your application by researching the IDE
programme and accessing the Application Guidance, Admissions and Tuition Fees and Funding information available. Applications for GID will reopen in November 2013.
The Innovation Design Engineering (IDE) programme is a leading-edge, creative product development course that involves experimentation, design, engineering and enterprise activities. In multidisciplinary teams or as individuals, participants work at the centre of complex, demanding projects with an emphasis on prototyping and proving propositions. The programme requires that a wide range of design skills and thinking are utilised (industrial design techniques, manufacturing, mechanical engineering, design research, user-centred design and sustainability, among others). It is external facing and encourages all to tackle important real-world issues involving advanced technical, design and social parameters. We believe that design is a verb not a noun.
Download Innovation Design Engineering Programme Information Pack (PDF).
A copy of the IDE Handbook is available here.
The programme offers:
- a unique double Master's MA Royal College of Art/MSc Imperial College London (students are fully enrolled at both institutions)
- a vibrant creative studio space for all MA/MSc students and a new research studio, both situated at the RCA with a diverse and international mix of students
- teaching staff who are highly experienced practitioners and work professionally in their field
- multiple commercial connections (recent projects have included Ford, Coca Cola, Airbus, BBC, Unilever, Vodafone (Future agenda), LG, Guzzini)
- good links and involvement in enterprise and commercialisation teaching or support through Design London Fellowships and InnovationRCA incubator
- student bursary support through The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and the James Dyson Foundation
- international exchanges, connections and student modules organised annually in different countries (recent visits include India, Japan, Thailand, China and Ghana)
- graduate destinations, alumni working at high level in businesses such as Apple, Nokia, Philips and self-started commercial enterprises including Takram, Bare Conductive and Omlet.
+44 (0)20 7590 4342
ide@rca.ac.uk
Programme microsite
IDE on YouTube
Open Days are held at the College between October and January of each academic year, to enable applicants to visit teaching programmes and meet staff and students.