The master's programme in Integrated Product Design teaches students how to create sustainable products, services, systems and business models.

In one of two distinct specialisations, students either explore product, service and system design in relation to users and markets, or management of innovation and product development processes. Graduates have the expertise for careers in a wide range of industrial and business sectors.

Integrated Product Design at KTH:

The two-year programme (120 ECTS credits) is in English. Engineers need advanced knowledge and highly developed skills to create competitive and sustainable products, services, and business models in today's fast-changing global market. The master's programme in Integrated Product Design offers two specialisation tracks: Industrial Design Engineering and Innovation Management and Product Development.

The programme comprises a mixture of mandatory, track-specific and elective courses, allowing you to select courses that match your interests and career goals. During the programme, you will have contact with industry, and projects are often conducted in cooperation with companies or organisations, providing you with valuable experience from practice.

In the final degree project, you perform in-depth work on a problem from industry, society, or academic research that aligns with your selected specialisation. An experienced researcher supervises the degree project that you carry outin an industrial or academic environment.

The Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) track focuses on the design, functionality, and communicative aspects of products in relation to users and markets. You will study and work with product design and service design as well as system design. You will improve your skills in product development, merging a mechanical engineering point of view with an industrial design point of view. The activities covered in the design process include user insights, ideation, concept screening, form-giving and visualisation, branding, prototyping, overall systems design, choice of materials, manufacturing, and sustainable development.

Elements or projects in courses in the track deal with innovation from several perspectives: 

• The innovation process including all activities from understanding the user and customer needs, idea creation, product and service development and understanding the business model (value creation activities).
• The innovation strategy setting the direction for an organisation, project portfolio and business strategies.
• Innovation results in products, services and business models relating to different levels of newness.

Career:

The master's programme in Integrated Product Design offers you a comprehensive education and refined expertise applicable to a wide range of industrial and business sectors as well as to organisations and consultancies.

The Industrial Design Engineering track provides skills necessary to work with product development and design, and user-driven design, either as a creative engineer, technical expert, project manager, or as commissioner of design and other related positions.

The Innovation Management and Product Development track provides opportunities for a variety of jobs in areas related to innovation, including project management, business development and product planning. You also instil competence to work on complex multidisciplinary product development projects as a technical expert, project manager, R&D manager, or consultant.