For lecturers and universities
When your students succeed your course gets noticed too.
"Design Innovation in Plastics has provided an invaluable opportunity for our first-year students. At such an early stage in their studies, taking part in a competition of this calibre offers a significant learning experience and the rare opportunity to have their work recognised by leading experts in the field.
For students who are just beginning their academic and professional journeys, this kind of recognition can be truly inspiring and memorable. It builds confidence, motivates future achievement, and demonstrates the real-world impact of their ideas.
We are very grateful to the Design Innovation in Plastics organising committee for continuing to create such meaningful opportunities for our students."
Dr Gulsen Tore Yargin
Senior Lecturer in Design and Innovation Strategy
Course Director BA Industrial Design
Brunel University of London
A brief that can fit your course
Every DIP brief is principle-led rather than product-specific.
That gives students a clear challenge while leaving plenty of freedom in how they respond.
The brief can become a live project in its own right.
Sit alongside an existing module.
Or give individual students the opportunity to take their thinking beyond the core curriculum.
Students can start from the same challenge and still develop completely different responses.
That flexibility is one of DIP’s strengths.
An external benchmark
Students are responding to the same brief as undergraduates from universities across the UK and Ireland.
Their work is considered against the same criteria by people working across design, plastics, manufacturing and industry.
That gives students another level of challenge.
And gives lecturers an external perspective on the work their course is producing.
Finalists then build on that experience through specialist injection moulding training and intellectual property guidance before final judging.
Success brings you something worth sharing
A student finalist.
An award-winning design.
Recognition from an established industry-supported competition.
These are genuine stories for the course and university to celebrate.
Creating publicity for the student, raising the profile of the course and showing prospective students the kind of work your university can produce.
Bring DIP into your course
Take a look at the current brief and consider where it could fit within your teaching.
Share it with your students.
Use it as a live project.
Or give students the opportunity to take it on independently.
If you would like to understand more about DIP, how the brief could work within your course or how your university can get involved, get in touch.