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, where
possible, 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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