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Product Design and Innovation Degree Course

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  • 16-02-2014 10:59pm
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    pog it
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    Hi, just eager to hear from anyone who has been through the degree in Product Design in IT Carlow to get an idea of how they got on afterwards in terms of employment, skills learned, and if they can recommend it really?


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    #2
    pog it
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    Anyone?

    Would be glad to hear from current final year students even. Very hard to hear feedback from the course like lots of others :(


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    e-Mo0?
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    Graduated a few years ago, one of the better product design courses in Ireland at the moment. There aren't a huge amount of jobs for grads in Ireland, there are so many ID courses in Ireland now you really need to be in the top 2/3 of a class to expect anything close to traditional product design, mainly medical design in Ireland (Also option of medical design masters after).

    Saying that it does have a lot of opportunities in other areas, some grads have gone into furniture design, POS design, graphics, CAD techs and just plain product engineering.

    I would recommend the course in Carlow, I think UL currently have the best course but Carlow isnt too far behind. Ireland in general is a little behind so to give yourself the best opportunity do the following -
    • Enter Comps online
    • INTERNSHIP! Get as many as you can over summers, time off anything and anywhere.
    • Check out profolio's of European & American students behance.net
    • Sketch, sketch, sketch.
    • Learn about plastic design by the end of 2nd year

    Finally, it is a tough course but you really need to be self motivated and push yourself. I cant stress enough about getting an internship, real world is a lot different.


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