Course code: 2965 + Course abbreviation: BE/BDes(IndDes) + Total credit points required: 242 + 5 years full-time, 8 years part-time + Managing faculty: Engineering
On-campus (Caulfield/Clayton)
The
program is only available to students in the Department of Mechanical
Engineering and enables 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 Bachelor of Engineering
(four-year) and the Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) (three-year) courses
offered at Monash University. The amalgamation of the common cores means that
the double degree 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 engineering component of the course is offered on the Clayton campus. The
art and design component of the course is offered on the Caulfield campus. The
course is timetabled, where possible, to allow whole days at one or the other
campus.
There
is a new course structure for students entering level 1 of the program from
2005. Students who entered the program prior to 2005 should refer to the
handbook for the year in which they commenced the course.
Level 2 units from the Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) program are taken
during stages 2 and 3 of the double degree. The order in which they should be
taken is determined by prerequisite requirements and the opportunities
presented by the timetables at Clayton and Caulfield.
The lists outlined in the course map for this program are recommendations, but
students should adjust the programs for stages 2 and 3 to suit their own needs.
It may not be possible to complete all level 3 units from the Bachelor of
Engineering (Mechanical) program by the end of stage 4 of the program so one or
two level 3 units will be taken at stage 5. The selection of the stage 4
unit(s) will be determined by timetable restrictions at stage 4, and the need
to complete any level 4 prerequisite units.
Should a student discontinue the double-degree program and seek to take out a
single degree, it will be necessary to complete all of the requirements of that
single degree.
Students
require a total of 242 credit points, comprising 152 points of engineering
units and 90 points of art and design units.
Students should refer to 'Course map 9 - Bachelor of Engineering/Bachelor of
Design (Industrial Design)' at the back of this section for an outline of the
course requirements for this program.
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