Integrated Product Design
This two-year master’s program builds fluency across all three fields, so you can collaborate as easily with a strategist as you would with an engineer or designer.
Drawing on the expertise of three world-class Penn schools, IPD lets you shape your own specialty — tailoring coursework to the field, role, or company you’re aiming for next.
Drawing upon the expertise of three world-class schools at the University of Pennsylvania, this program enables students to design their own specialties based on their academic background and career goals.
As an IPD student, you can customize your learning journey for the exact field or role you want to move into, expand your professional capabilities, and design a career path that is uniquely suited to you.
For people who are not satisfied with the status quo – who have ideas about how to improve the world around them and want a robust and diverse skill set to implement those ideas.
This transformative program is open to applicants with design, business or engineering backgrounds interested in collaborating across disciplines to create new products.
M:IPD students will take courses in design, engineering and business.
You will learn to:
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“My two years in IPD was an unforgettable and truly precious journey. IPD is very unique that you get to work with a mix of talented people, and learn not only from school, but from each other. Design skills aside, IPD taught me how to think and get to the core of a problem, how to communicate, how to pitch an idea, and much more. These soft skills truly benefited me in job hunting and is still benefiting me in everyday professional work.”
– Zoe Gan, Interaction Designer, Google
For students with an undergraduate degree in engineering who want to take their careers to the next level – by learning a more holistic approach to product design and development.
The program emphasizes technology and manufacturing processes, including coursework in advanced CAD/CAM and mechatronics. Students will deepen their engineering skills while broadening their abilities to communicate and collaborate with designers, strategists and product managers.
MSE:IPD students will take the majority of their courses within The School of Engineering.
“Coming from a mechanical engineering background, this program really taught me how to approach problems from an empathetic standpoint, allowing me to break free from the more rigid problem-solving methods I learned previously in my career. This not only gave me freedom to derive insanely creative solutions, but ultimately understand the root cause I was working to remedy with a product or service.”
– Zac Bensing, Product Design and Development, Tushy
For Penn graduate students in already enrolled at Penn who want product design skills without taking on a second degree.
The certificate layers a human-centered design process on top of your primary field of study. To earn the certificate students will take two required courses plus one elective in each discipline: design, engineering and business.
