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Industrial Design Engineering IDE is a pioneering postgraduate degree jointly set up by UK's Royal College of Art [1] and Imperial College, London. Until its start in 1981, most Industrial or Product Designers were artists who do not have an engineering degree, which led to much conflict between design and engineering departments. The IDE course changed this by specialising in training engineers to become visually and functionally aware designers. By 2000, the IDE course has a higher intake than the 'normal' Product Design course.

Graduates are now embedded in major design led companies the world over, including Virgin Atlantic and Dyson. James Dyson, the vacuum cleaner entrepreneur who graduate from the RCA's 'normal' course, allegedly employs more IDE graduates than any other company.

Roy Tam [2] is one of the four pioneering students, who went on to win the prestigious Braun Prize from Germany, and successfully set up a US design office among 3000 previously suspicious engineering consultants.