Undergraduate courses and subjects 2000 - Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Technology (Industrial Design) (BE/BTech(IndDes))

Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of Technology (Industrial Design) (BE/BTech(IndDes))

The Faculty of Engineering and the Faculty of Art and Design offer a double-degree course which qualifies students for the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Technology (Industrial Design). This program is only available to students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and was established to enable creative students to pursue their interests in both engineering design and industrial design, with a focus on high-technology consumer product design. With a continuing international trend to accelerated product development, facilitated by new interdisciplinary group techniques such as 'concurrent engineering', there is growing need for graduates with multidisciplinary skills and an ability to communicate with professionals from other disciplines: this course in intended to address that need.
There is a common technological core for both the BE (four years) and the BTech(IndDesign) (three years) courses offered at Monash University, and the amalgamation of the common cores means that the five-year double-degree course still achieves the full objectives of both courses. Consequently, graduates will be able to synthesise advanced technology and consumer product design in the creation of new manufactured artifacts and will be able to facilitate cooperation in new product development teams by being sensitive to the different professional viewpoints of the team members.
The BE/BTech(IndDesign) double-degree program commences at level 1 and is of five years' duration if taken full time. Entry to the course in through the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC). The course operates on-campus at Clayton (Engineering) and Caulfield (Industrial Design), but the timetable for the program is arranged so that where possible students will spend whole semesters, or at least whole days, at one or other campus. The course structure is set out in the subject lists following this section.