Clayton/Caulfield campus
The Faculty of Engineering and the College of Art and Design offer Australasia's first double degree course which qualifies students for the degrees of Bachelor of Engineering and Bachelor of Technology (Industrial Design). This unique program is only available to students in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and was established, in partnership with the Centre for Industrial Design, to enable students with creative design abilities to pursue their interests in both engineering design and industrial design, with a focus on high-technology consumer product design. With the continuing international trend towards accelerated product development, facilitated by new interdisciplinary group techniques such as concurrent engineering, there is a growing need for graduates with multidisciplinary skills and an ability to communicate with professionals from other disciplines: this new innovative degree program is intended to address that need.
The aim of this double degree program is to produce graduates with the joint skills of the respective BE and BTech(IndDes) programs, in a course which can be completed in five years. The principal objectives are therefore the same as those for the respective existing BE and BTech(Ind Des) courses. In addition, the unique objectives of the double degree program are as follows:
There is a common technological core for both the BE (four years) and the BTech(IndDes) (three years) courses offered separately at Monash University, and the amalgamation of the common cores means that the five-year double degree course still achieves the full educational objectives of both courses. Consequently, graduates will be able to synthesise advanced technology and product quality criteria, including economics, aesthetics/semantics and environmental factors, in the creation of new consumer products as well as being able to exercise leadership and facilitate cooperation of professionals in new product development teams.
The BE/BTech(Industrial Design) double degree program commences at level one and is of five years duration on a full-time basis. Entry to the course is by application through the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC); application and VCE prerequisite subject details are given in the VTAC Guide to university courses. 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 the other campus. The detailed course structure is set out in the Faculty of Engineering handbook.
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