WELCOME TO PRODUCT DESIGN ENGINEERING

Welcome to Product Design Engineering - one of the UK's leading departments combining design, creativity and engineering.

Established in the mid 1990's the Department grew from the GSA's Industrial Design and then Product Design Departments. Its unique history provides an impressive track record of graduate achievement, something which has grown considerably since the PDE programme was established, from people like Ian Callum, Design Director of Jaguar Cars, an Industrial Design graduate from 1977 to Jude Pullen, a graduate from 2009, winner of the GSA's top student prize - the Newbery Medal - who's final year project, a pressure alert for Endotracheal Tubes won him 10 awards and is currently being developed for market.

Product Design Engineering or "PDE" brings together two Cultures - the studio and creative environment of one of Europe's leading art schools - the GSA, and the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Glasgow - a world top 100 university (QS World Ranking).

If you can imagined bringing together your academic and creative abilities to design exciting and innovative products, then Product Design Engineering is the career path for you. PDE offer you a unique opportunity to gaining a Masters of Engineerng (MEng) or Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) with honours and a foundation for a career as a design engineer.

Fundamentally, we seek people with a good imagination, who are conscientious and studious. If you come with this attitude, the opportunities are endless and we look forward to welcoming you to PDE at The Glasgow School of Art.

Craig Whittet BA(Hons) MDes FRSA
Head of Department

• Red Button's Reverse Osmosis Sanitation System (ROSS), was commended in the Environmental Section of the Wall Street Journal’s Innovation Awards 2007, alongside entries by LG Electronics and Xerox.
• For the past two sessions, PDE students (James Brown and Nicky Pang; Padraig Murphy, Phil Ross and Martin Izod, were recipients of 1st Prize in the Scottish Institute for enterprise Business Plan.
• Takahasi Koyamata (BEng4), and Kerry Briggs (MEng5) were shorlisted for the Lightouse (Glasgow) Design Medal for Excellence, 2007.
• Product Design Engineering students James Brown and Nicky Pang and their company Red Button Design also secured support from all the Dragons on the BBC 2’s Dragons’ Den for their ROSS water purifier product.
• PDE graduates and company founders of Lightweight Medical, Neil Farish and Neil Tierney, won a coveted international iF Design Award in 2007 and a commendation in the Design Week Awards.
• PDE students' work formed a part of the winning bid documentation for Glasgow's hosting of the Commonwealth Games in 2014.
• 'There is an ocean of difference between the work of students from the Brunels and Glasgows, and the rest'. - James Dyson, Times Educational Supplement 2000
• PDE students consistently win the RSA Annual Student Awards, and this year was no exception with Craig Smith named a winner in their Design Directions competition. In 2005, the Department received a special award 'to recognise its achievement in design education'.
• PDE Design Engineer in Residence Andrew Carr has returned from the United States to work at the GSA en route to China.
• IMechE President John Baxter visited GSA's PDE department this year. The Institution's Panel in 1991 described the GSA as 'bringing back the joy and creativity to engineering'.