Master of Science in Engineering (Brochure)

The University of Pennsylvania's Integrated Product Design program is intended to cultivate design professionals that possess both a breadth of knowledge and a depth of expertise in a specialty, in order to effectively bridge the domains of technology, manufacturing, business, aesthetics, and human-product interaction. The guiding philosophy of the program is not only to teach students to create products, but to understand and address the social, environmental and experiential contexts of those products, so that product design can be harnessed as a force for the greater good.

The program builds the skills to investigate, imagine, conceptualize and model wide range of products and their complementary business models. The program draws on the strengths of three internationally recognized schools within the University: the School of Engineering & Applied Science, The Wharton School, and the School of Design.

The graduate courses that make up the program create an interdisciplinary point of view, and are taught by professors from all three schools.  Studio classes accompany classroom studies, providing creative and analytical approaches, and shifting students between rigorous, technical and explorative processes in the development of both experiential and theoretical knowledge. Collaborative team projects and student-driven independent projects complement the core courses to give students both a solid grasp of the fundamentals and a deep understanding of the nuances of these fields.