27 Industrial and Product Design Certificate Programs

Make a real world impact. Focus through a wide–whole systems thinking–lens that prioritizes people and the natural environment. Leverage sustainable design theory, practice, processes, and materials across disciplines to build an interdisciplinary portfolio that prioritizes sustainability.

The Certificate in Product Development and Design is for students and professionals who seek to solve complex problems from a holistic, design-oriented perspective. Whether you are an entrepreneur, administrator, civil servant, marketer, project manager, engineer, healthcare worker, educator, or advocate – this program will help you to discover solutions through the use of creativity, collaboration, and iterative design.

Create digital products that traverse end-user and business needs. Integrate research, design, and presentation into your work and oversee the entire product lifecycle from conception to execution. Develop a core skill-set that addresses the multi-phases of product design across platforms and the know-how of which tools to use and when to use them. Build key portfolio pieces.

The Professional Certificate of Competency in Product Design for Engineers equips engineers and technicians with the expertise to create customer-focused, cost-effective, sustainable, and technology-driven products. The course covers key topics, including design thinking and user-centric design, core design principles, and the selection of materials and manufacturing processes to meet design requirements.

A blend of human factors engineering and mechanical engineering, students in this certificate program will learn the fundamentals of design in both fields and apply them to the design of assistive devices to address real-world problems.

Turn your knowledge of cannabis into innovative market-ready products. The Cannabis Product Development Specialist program is your path to a career in cannabis product development, manufacturing, and extraction. You will master the licensed-level skills needed to formulate edibles, beverages, topicals, concentrates, and pre-rolls with precision and consistency. Invest in the specialized knowledge that will establish your career and enable you to prosper in the cannabis manufacturing sector.

Bali is one of the most popular travel destinations in the world, blessed with a unique blend of artful, traditional architecture, and also modern Western influences. The hotel and villa architecture is characterized by buildings that harmoniously combine Eastern and Western design concepts to give an adorable outward appearance. The 15-week program “Tropical Architecture, Interior & Green Design” at the Institut Desain & Bisnis Bali (IDB Bali), formerly known as Sekolah Tinggi Desain & Bisnis Bali (STDBali), is designed exclusively as a semester abroad for international students and graduates.

This course is suitable for both employees in engineering and technology as well as for individuals enrolled in a technical degree program. The learning content of this certificate course is divided into four modules.

Learn how to create furniture from successful designers. Develop your own ideas through experimenting, model-making, and testing.

Wood Technology is Laney College’s woodworking department. We offer classes on designing and making furniture and cabinets — from traditional hand tools, to handheld and stationary power tools, to contemporary CAD/CAM.

Gain the skills to manage the design and development of products for strategic competitive advantage. This intensive three-day certificate program provides the skills related to managing creativity and design, customer-focused innovation, gap analysis in the design process, strategy in design, industrial design essentials, human factors, research, marketing and intellectual property. Participants will also gain skills in managing the product development phase-gate process, teams, and product performance metrics.

The integrated product design certificate is crafted for students who want to deepen their understanding of the process behind creating innovative and functional products. The program covers topics li...

Building an effective product portfolio is a critical skill. Contemporary product managers must be able to articulate a clear vision of the market for their organization’s products. They also have to develop those products in an agile environment and validate results using proven testing methods and performance metrics. This program provides a comprehensive understanding of cutting-edge product management techniques, along with strategies for implementing them, that will give innovative organizations a competitive edge.

MITT’s Industrial Welding certificate program helps students build a strong foundation of the knowledge and skills required to design and build products by cutting and joining materials using ferrous and non-ferrous materials. Students work independently or in teams using current welding and fabrication equipment to complete projects in a learning environment that simulates an industrial welding shop. To complement their technical skills with the employability and essential skills employers demand, all students participate in MITT’s Work Skills Series workshops.

Every company that sees technology as a competitive differentiator needs a product strategy. And every person who touches a product inside of an organization directly contributes to its success or failure. A comprehensive product strategy incorporates involvement from all stakeholders in the ecosystem. For those involved in developing or delivering product strategy—from cradle-to-grave—you’ll develop a mindset that anchors product strategy as the pathway to growth. Whether you are seeking growth by launching new products and services, or need to manage the lifecycle of existing ones, the Product Strategy program offers approaches that are used by many of the top technology-driven companies in the world today.