Course abbreviation: BE/BDes(IndDesign)
The Department of Mechanical 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 Design in industrial design. The
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
BDes(Industrial Design) (three years) courses offered at Monash University. 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 artefacts 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/BDes(IndDesign) double-degree program commences at level 1 and is of
five years' duration if taken full-time. Entry to the course is through the
Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) and includes a folio and interview
component. Transfer applications after one year of BE studies will be
considered on their merits. The course operates on-campus at Clayton
(Engineering) and Caulfield (Industrial Design), but is timetabled to allow
whole days at one or the other campus. The course structure is set out in the
course list included after this section of the handbook.
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