WHAT IS PDP?

Product Development Project (PdP) is one of Aalto’s longest-running multidisciplinary courses, organized by Aalto Design Factory. Each year, 150–200 students from all fields work in 15–20 teams to solve real-life challenges from industry partners.

The course is open to all Aalto students and recommended for first-year Master’s students or those with equivalent experience.

You can sign up for the course on Sisu.

INDUSTRY CHALLENGES

WORK ON REAL-WORLD CHALLENGES FROM THE INDUSTRY

The course follows a passion-based learning (PBL) methodology. The challenges are given and sponsored by industry partners, who are searching for innovative cooperation with the next generation of product developers.

You can check the project topics on MyCourses.

GLOBAL TEAMS

LEARN IN INTERDISCIPLINARY GLOBAL TEAMS

At the start, a lot of attention is directed to the forming of highly motivated interdisciplinary teams. A project typically includes phases of understanding the challenge, planning, research, concepts generation, prototyping and testing.

PRODUCT INNOVATION

BUILD THE PRODUCTS OF THE FUTURE

The project concludes with the Product Design Gala where the teams present their final functional prototypes of a tangible product or service solution for their industry challenge.

FINAL GALA

PRODUCT DESIGN GALA

For almost 30 years PdP has brought students of business, design, and technology together to tackle industry challenges and develop state of the art solutions to real problems. At the Product Design Gala, the interdisciplinary teams show the result of their hard work to the visitors, engage with the visitors, explain the project and answer their questions, and mostly be proud of their work!

The visitors will have a chance to hear about the teams’ accomplishments and processes, as well as to get familiar with the people themselves together with their amazing prototypes.

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