On successful completion of the programme, participants will have demonstrated the competencies necessary to:

• Adopt analytical, systematic approaches toward problem solving and decision making, while simultaneously displaying an appropriate awareness and understanding of the sensitivities involved in the context of organisational dynamics;
• Demonstrate personal qualities of empathy, leadership, teamworking;
• Manage their own learning and development, and evaluate their own experience through a reflective approach towards the impact of the programme on their lives;
• Be catalysts of change within their employing organisations, as a result of the adoption of creative and innovative approaches to opportunities and threats.

Students who want to study on Masters of Engineering in Packaging, Innovation and Product Design must first complete the Postgraduate Diploma in Packaging, Innovation and Product Design to be able to progress to the Masters year. The student will complete a Dissertation under supervision. The flexibility and agility of this programme, will allow students to specialise in a pathway most suited to their skills, career aspirations, and employer needs that will give them research expertise in Packaging, Innovation and Product Design.

Online

• Strategic Management and Leadership
• Product Design and Prototyping
• Packaging Science and Technology
• Innovation Practice: Ideation Visualisation
• Research Methods
• Applied Case Studies – WBL Strategic Capstone Project
• Dissertation

Level 8 Degree in any non-cognate discipline

and/or

Those with a level 7 degree in any non-cognate discipline with three years post qualification and/or those who meet the Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) requirements as per the Institute RPL policy will also be considered.  Such candidates will have to attend for interview.

Note: Non cognate discipline is defined as the discipline area OTHER than the discipline area of the Post Graduate Diploma the student is applying for.

Week commencing Monday 11th September 2023

 To be confirmed

NFQ Level 9
(90 Credits)

Candidates who complete 60 credits (on completion of Year 1 of the programme) and wish to exit at this point will receive a Postgraduate Diploma in Engineering in Packaging, Innovation and Product Design. However, the full programme is offered as a 90 credit Master of Engineering in Packaging, Innovation and Product Design degree. Graduates who complete the Postgraduate Diploma will be eligible to transfer to a Master of Engineering in Packaging, Innovation and Product Design. Year 2 of the Masters programme involves the completion of a supervised 30 credits dissertation.